We’re near the end of the year and it’s looking a lot lke the Web3 hype is overblown. Unfortunately, that conversation’s sucked so much of the air out of the room, that…
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Matt DeSiena is the Head of Social at The Martin Agency. VP of Digital Strategy at The Winston Project, a creative collective in New York City. While he's also held roles as the SVP Digital Strategy at the Winston Project, VP Digital Strategy at Saatchi and Saatchi Wellness and Content Director at TBWA\Chiat\Day New York, Matt's an Italophile at heart. He wishes more people would blog again. He loves reading their stories.
Creeping Normality Comes for The NBA
The most unsettling part of a culture of no accountability in 2022 America – across business, politics, and most recently sports – is how swiftly it drags the Overton window even further…
A Creative Revolution
As Web 3.0 continues to be pushed by more people with little knowledge about the technologies, I’m excited to report roses growing in a bed of weeds. Notion, WordPress, Google (Workspace), Bytedance…
A Well Kept-Garden
I’m researching decision-making for a personal investment project I’m working on around real estate (Shortest explanation: Maximizing investment value by identifying perceived bias), and Reddit directed me to Less Wrong, a site…
Final Thoughts: The End of an Era
So begins a long seven months until the first tip of the 2022-2023 basketball season. It’s always the saddest day of the year, helped only by a correct prediction of Kansas cutting…
March Madness 2022
Almost every year I share my picks and link to full analysis for the NCAA Tournament before taking off two days of work to watch the games. This year’s going to be…
WordPress 5.9: Release Day
Today – after the dev team agreed on the delayed release of the next major release of WordPress core – is the launch of the first supported release of full-site editing (FSE)…
Winamp In WordPress: Yes Please.
I added WordPress Tavern to my Feedly roster awhile back and it’s quickly become a must-read. Justin Tadlock shared some treasure he found in a WordPress plugin scavenger hunt — Someone created…
The Best Things I’ve Seen on the Internet in 2021
It’s that time again. Here’s the annual year-end list of my favorite clips, memes, stories, and links I’ve saved since January 1st and no earlier. This mashup of the Leo meme. This…
Chris Cornell (RIP) Nailed This Cover
Elena and I are going to see the Wallflowers tomorrow, and after determining that Jakob Dylan’s voice held up over the last twenty years (it did), I went down a YouTube rabbit…