4 posts and columns on cocaine

Ford to Enable Wi-Fi Hotspots in Some Cars: BoomTown Rejoices

in News on December 21, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Last week, when BoomTown was taking a taxi from JFK Airport, I was more of a geek loser than usual, using my USB broadband modem to connect and write a post. But the jostling cut off the connection several times, which was frustrating. Now comes news that Ford will make the next generation of its Sync-enabled vehicles into Wi-Fi hotspots, allowing you to connect to the Internet everywhere much more seamlessly in a moving car. Oh, joy! Now, I can obsessively Gowalla myself while moving at 80 miles per hour, which should freak some people out.
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What Happens in Vegas Doesn't Stay in Vegas: Kara Visits BlogWorld Expo

in News on October 16, 2009 at 6:00 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown traveled to the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center–and it was not even time for the annual Consumer Electronics Show! Instead, I was attending BlogWorld Expo, an annual event for bloggers of all kinds–from military bloggers to political bloggers to a roving pack of mommy bloggers–who gather to find out about all kinds of social media software and tools and, most importantly, how to monetize their sites. Needless to say, it was blogtastic!
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Ford's Social Media Guru Scott Monty: "Social Media Is the Cocaine of the Communications Industry"

in News on October 15, 2009 at 2:53 pm PT

Today, BoomTown got the best quote ever from Scott Monty, when I asked him over lunch about his comparison of social media tools to an illicit drug. “Social media is the cocaine of the communications industry,” said Monty, who has been global digital and multimedia communications manager for Ford Motor Company since mid-2008. Riding that Twitter train, high on Facebook cocaine?
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Idiot: World of Warcraft Is the "Crack Cocaine of the Computer Game World"

in News on February 27, 2009 at 2:28 pm PT

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than one to two hours of online gaming per day, so warnings that obsessive gaming might be detrimental to one’s health are not without some merit. But the suggestion that World of Warcraft is the cocaine of the gaming world and its players by extension, a legion of slathering crackheads, well, that’s going a bit far, isn’t it?
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