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dfwbrett has 15 years of experience in Web content and usability. He's also a national blogger for digital pivot at talentzoo.com. All opinions are purely for entertainment, editorial and informational purposes. If you'd like to hire Brett or have your site reviewed, email him.At that point, it's okay to talk to him in first person.

A few days ago, Talent Zoo’s Miranda Miller posted a great article about why we should call BS on Facebook’s response to a recent post by a hacker called Nik Cubrilovic. Our buddy Nik offered some interesting information: Facebook is stealing sucking in data from us users.   Miranda warned us, but we probably won’t [...]

Don’t Blame Netflix

November 7th, 2011

I'm going out on a limb here, but this whole Netflix mess? It's not Reed Hastings' or his company's fault. It's bigger than that. But let's take a look at how we got here. A few years ago, I saw an interview of Reed Hastings and I thought he was a visionary. He grew his business organically, [...]

There’s a basic question that we all gloss over about written electronic communications. It’s a question that’s so profound, Plato might ponder it for years if he were alive today. And if we really did question it, who knows? We might be shocked at what we found.

Technology, right now, is a lot like world affairs. There are always wars happening somewhere. At the moment, it seems everyone is focusing on the mobile communications wars: AT&T vs Verizon, iOS vs Android vs WebOS vs RIM, Tablets. vs PCs, and more. Who will win, if anyone? Who knows. But it’s certain that a [...]

The Web is a beautiful thing. The only thing I can think to compare it to is the universe itself. It’s always growing; expanding. And just when we think we’ve begun to understand it, a new paradigm turns our understanding of it upside down. But most importantly (or at least for this comparison), no matter [...]