Author: Scott Westerman

With Colleen traveling and a rare rainstorm inundating Albuquerque, I’ve been cleaning up my home office. I found a piece I wrote in 1989, about my un-spectacular start in radio. Looking back at it from almost 20 years later, the writing isn’t as good as I’d like, but since the detail is starting to fade,…

I rarely write here in my day-job role as a Comcast exec. The family blog expresses a few of my other passions. But I saw this post over at the Consumerist today and felt like sharing another opinion. I posted the following in the comment section, but since some folks don’t get all the way…

TweetLater is one of the growing number of support applications that can help us leverage twitter as a messaging machine. Here’s how to use it.Signup for a free account at www.tweetlater.comYou’ll see a dashboard where you can add one or more of your twitter accounts to the system. Adding an account is as simple as…

Those of us who have been geeking for many years have built a portfolio of memberships that sometimes become unwieldy.I have six instant messaging accounts: AOL, GoogleTalk, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN and Jabber. Same story on email. Gmail is my primary, but I get stuff through Comcast.net, Yahoo, MSN and my half dozen websites, all of…

It was a sad day when Ken R. got out of the jingle business.I first met Ken Deutsch in 1971 when we were both part timers at WPAG in Ann Arbor. Even then, he was a fascinating guy. We shared a love for well executed radio and a passion for jingles, those short 8 second…

Immediacy, personalization, interpretation, authenticity, embodiment, patronage and findabilityDoc Searls post is on the money as usual channeling Jay Deragon and Kevin Kelly.Interesting that the 7 generatives tie directly to some of the magic words Rob Curley uses make newspapers relevant in the Internet age. People who realize how this stuff works can be the next…

More proof that you can do anything on the Internet. Chris Pirillo turned me on to Bitstrips.com, a place where you can create and publish your own comic strip. When I think about it, there are many family conversations that are ripe for three panels and a punch line. So here goes..Click the strip to…

I’ve written elsewhere about how much I love my T-Mobile Dash and it’s ability feed the Internet to my laptop. As a radio amateur, I’m a fan of High Speed Multimedia (HSMM) and its ability to provide point to point and infrastructure broadband connectivity “when all else fails.Make no mistake: In most instances the speed…

During my three years at Mediacom, I had this poster behind my desk on the wall. It was big and green and everyone who came into my office couldn’t miss it. When I left the company, it somehow didn’t make the trip. I got an email months later from an office mate who grabbed it…

We’re pleased with our T-Mobile relationship. For most of us, there are a handful of folks that represent the bulk of our minutes and the Five Faves option gives us unlimited minutes with them. Brandon and Step are T-Mobilers so we have the mobile-to-mobile deal so we don’t pay connect time with them either. We…