Brad Rourke

Brad Rourke’s Blog

  • Our Duty In The Brave New Panopticon

    I have always been fascinated with the Panopticon. It figured in an essay I wrote about leadership some time ago, but my interest in it goes way back. As social media, and especially Facebook, has grown and evolved over the past handful of years, I keep thinking it is time to revisit the panopticon. With…

  • Shopping Sunday: A Great Yoga Rug

    As many friends know, I often do yoga, four or more times each week. The style I practice involves a very hot room and a lot of motion — not as hot as Bikram yoga but much more energetic. Result: buckets of sweat (if you are me). I have been on a quest to find…

  • Five Rules To Live In Public

    Five Rules To Live In Public

    For some reason (an intersection between tech-geek tendencies and narcissism, no doubt), I have been an early adopter when it comes to the self-publishing elements enabled by the Web. I started blogging before the word had been coined, was an early adopter of Twitter (March 2007), Facebook, and more. The advent of the Social Web has…

  • Shopping Sunday: Two Bluetooth Accessories

    Welcome to my new series, Shopping Sunday, where I review things I own (mostly) and recommend. These are all available in my Amazon Store. Today I have two great little Bluetooth accessories to share with you. They each have made my life easier in their own little ways. * * * * * Miccus BluBridge…

  • How To Use Facebook's New 'Subscribe' Feature

    Facebook has just unveiled a new feature they call “Subscribe.” Essentially, you can now follow people without friending them. I created this quick screencast to show how it works. It’s totally simple:

  • Poverty Up, Income Down

    The Great Recession officially began December 2007. Here is the impact of the last few years, as released by the Census Bureau today: Real median household income in the United States in 2010 was $49,445, a 2.3 percent decline from the 2009 median. The nation’s official poverty rate in 2010 was 15.1 percent, up from…