Jon Henshaw

I’ve seen the phrase “game changer” a lot this year. Like the word douchebag, its usage has been steadily increasing. It’s been most prevalent in marketing copy, with companies calling every new product and service they release a “Game Changer!” I looked at stats from Google News, and it (unscientifically) confirmed my observations. > 10k …

As any reasonable person will tell you, hipsters must die. While I was waiting at the front door of Yazoo (a local brewery), some overly confident hipster, with his stupid hipster hat, and his impossibly tight hipster jeans, and his trademarked hipster smug face, came up to the door jingling his keys as if he …

The Digital Wedding Forum blog – not a site I frequent, mind you – revealed that third party applications were being allowed to print your Facebook photos. That meant that anyone with access to your photos on Facebook could print them at Walmart, Walgreens, Target, Shutterfly, Pixable, and Kodak Easy Share. An updated entry on …

At the beginning of this year, I wrote an entry on the AP Style for Internet and Information Technology Terms. I stated that: Starting in 2010 I’m going to lay down arms and accept the media status quo–at least as tech industry spellings are concerned. At this point, I think it’s more harmful than helpful …

Just because I work in the Internet marketing industry, doesn’t mean I have to like everything about it. Being a not-so-social person myself–preferring the company just a few people, versus a large group–the idea of joining and participating in an open, global discussion online doesn’t really excite me. So, before I talk about what sucks …

I lived in Denver for almost ten years before I moved to Nashville. When I lived there, my absolute favorite beer was made from a microbrew in Fort Collins called New Belgium Brewing Company. They didn’t sell outside of their region, so when I got to Nashville, I couldn’t enjoy drinking their Fat Tire anymore …