Author Archives: Ken Dowell

(Nearly) Live at Social Media Week – Journos With Their Ear to the Ground

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Ken Dowell

If you attended a panel discussion with the title “From Headlines to Hashtags” you might expect to find a group of media types talking about how social has become a key distribution platform, about how they promote themselves and their … Continue reading →

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(Nearly) Live at Social Media Week – The Future of Money

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Ken Dowell

Do brick and mortar bank branches have a future? Will digital currency make credit cards obsolete? Will the individual investor choose instead to become a crowdfunder? A Social Media Week Los Angeles panel tackled those questions earlier today as they … Continue reading →

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Digital Deception: Wikipedia’s PR Problem

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Ken Dowell

In June of this year a joint statement was issued by 11 PR firms promising to not try to edit Wikipedia articles about their clients without going through “proper channels.” Some of the biggest names in the business were part … Continue reading →

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A Baseball Fan Memoir Chapter 2 – Coming of Age

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Ken Dowell

As the 1960’s started I was a 10-year old in 5th grade. At the end of the decade I was in my freshman year of college. In 1960, the New York Mets existed only as a business plan on the … Continue reading →

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Digital Deception: Catfish

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Ken Dowell

So far in my Digital Deception series I’ve encountered phonies who used their fake identities to promote their products or business, to trash their competitors, to catch criminals or spy on ideological enemies, to spread propaganda or to enhance their reputation. … Continue reading →

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A Baseball Fan Memoir Chapter 1 – Childhood Heroes

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Ken Dowell

The first seven years of my life coincided with the heyday of New York baseball. The Dodgers were in Brooklyn, the Giants in Upper Manhattan and across the river the Yankees were in the Bronx. All three won a World … Continue reading →

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A Baseball Fan Memoir – Introduction

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Ken Dowell

I always thought there were two kinds of baseball fans. The traditionally more charming of the two is the person who is born into fandom of a certain team because of who his or her parents root for and where … Continue reading →

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Take Exit 0 for America’s Oldest Seaside Resort

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Ken Dowell

Cape May As numerous comedians have pointed out, in New Jersey we often refer to where we live by our exit number (I’m 151). The Garden State Parkway runs the length of the state and if you hit Exit 0, … Continue reading →

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What I Read (aka The Content I Consume)

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Ken Dowell

I start each day with the expectation of getting around to a pretty full list of news and information. Or, to put it in more modern vernacular, I expect to consume a lot of content. I approach this task armed … Continue reading →

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Digital Deception: Sockpuppeteers

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Ken Dowell

Wikipedia defines a sockpuppet as an online identity used for the purposes of deception. The Urban Dictionary has some more colorful definitions: “A fake personality, usually a ‘friend’ or ‘sister’ created by a drama queen/king for the sake of defending … Continue reading →

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