Tech geeks or doctoral students who study tech geeks?
December 21st, 2010 - A collection of the best videos from the geekiest of events, the ICIS Conference where doctoral students and professors give presentations on studies they’ve been conducting over the past year.
December 1st, 2010 - How are you building your personal brand to improve your own marketability? Those questions answered and more from David Spark's coverage of the Enterprise 2.0 Conference.
Nov. 29th, 2010 - It’s not often a lawyer calls David Spark for advice, but such was the case last week when the legal counsel of Denise Howell and Evan Brown, a.k.a. “This Week in Law” asked Spark to be on their show along with Socialmedia.biz founder, JD Lasica.
Nov. 17th, 2010 - The #1 conference on the online video industry. Spark Media Solutions was there reporting for Insight Technologies.
Nov. 16th, 2010 - How do I actually get a return for all this money I’m investing in social media? We looked for answers from industry experts at Zuberance’s event “How to Turn Word of Mouth and Social Media into Sales.”
Nov. 5th, 2010 - At the Zuberance event “How to Turn Word of Mouth and Social Media into Sales” we asked the attendees if they could tell us their secret to energizing word of mouth.
Oct. 28th, 2010 - Are you always looking for great talent but just having a hard time finding it? At Staffing World 2010, we asked a bunch of expert recruiters what their favorite recruiting best practice was.
Oct. 25th, 2010 - Here are our five favorite videos (along with 15 more) that we shot and produced at Silicon Valley Code Camp for Dice.com. You’ll enjoy them, even if you’re not a developer.
Oct. 19th, 2010 - Here are 15 tips on how to handle communications when you’re facing a PR nightmare. Offers advice from preparation, monitoring, communication, engagement, and disengagement.
Oct. 12th, 2010 - Every speaker has a presentation horror story. Here are more than a dozen tales of a presentation that went horribly wrong.
Oct. 8th, 2010 - David Spark co-hosts “Tech News Today” with Becky Worley. A really fun episode with lots of props from viewers in the chat room. Watch to see why it's called “Video in the toilet."
Oct. 8th, 2010 - What was the buzz on the floor from the attendees, presenters, and exhibitors at TechCrunch Disrupt last week? Of the 28 videos we produced at the event, here are our five favorites.
Sept. 30th, 2010 - Yammer threw a party at TechCrunch Disrupt and we asked attendees if they were ever witness to or guilty of an inappropriate use of electronic communications in the office.
Sept. 22nd, 2010 - This week is the airing of the very last Cranky Geeks episode. I appeared on the very first episode 4 1/2 years ago and I appeared on the very last episode as well. Watch the last episode as we reflect on the past four years.
August 30th, 2010 - Think you're a real geek? Check to see how you stack up against the attendees of Gnomedex in Seattle. For a roundup of the event, read "The cool and not-so-cool from Gnomedex."
August 13th, 2010 - David Spark discusses the Google/Verizon open letter that proposed new broadband requirements for mobile and some type of second Internet.
August 11th, 2010 - Who knows? The mystery around Mark Hurd’s leaving HP and the absurd study by OKCupid about iPhone users having more sex than Android phone users became the fodder for this week’s episode of Cranky Geeks.
July 7th, 2010 - In this week’s Cranky Geeks, we got to arguing about the nearly half of all road warriors that check email on the toilet. Plus who you should and shouldn’t befriend when you start a new job.
June 16th, 2010 - On this week's episode of Cranky Geeks we talk a about 3D gaming, genitalia recognition algorithms for Chatroulette, and Cupidtino, the dating site only for Apple fanatics.
May 6th, 2010 - Listen and watch David Spark's 25 minute keynote presentation at the PINC Show, a conference for print designers. Slidecast focuses particularly on the power of super users and contests powered by social media.
May 4th, 2010 - Spark's story in Mashable examines four different ways companies ignored economies of scale and developed super user relationships that were more effective than their company's marketing department.
April 28st, 2010 - It really gets heated on Cranky Geeks this week when John and I start arguing about an inappropriate invite I received from a PR firm.
April 21st, 2010 - The Cranky Geeks can't stop complaining. This week it's about useless huge hard drives in cars, the "stolen" iPhone, and whether or not we're in a tech boom.
April 19th, 2010 - From research conducted by Cision US, Spark Minute blog made The Top 100 Social Media and Marketing Blogs list this year. We're #90, but we're happy to start somewhere.
March 18th, 2010 - After producing more than 40 video interviews at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, here's a highlight of some of our favorite interviews with industry luminaries such as Pete Cashmore of Mashable, Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Leo Laporte of TWiT.
March 10th, 2010 - A funny episode of Cranky Geeks where we talk about the RSA conference, people being web introverts, and then we get sidetracked on a conversation about Jimi Hendrix.
March 8th, 2010 - Live 15 minute Slidecast presentation David Spark gave at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Want to get the best job? Be a super user. Want to hire the best employees? Look for super users.
February 10th, 2010 - On Cranky Geeks this week, John C. Dvorak and David Spark argue about planted tech stories and how annoying it is when people announce, "I don't have a TV." Is that paradigm changing?
January 12th, 2010 - On Cranky Geeks, John C. Dvorak and David Spark complain about Google pulling out of China, and Spark getting uninvited to a press party.
January 9th, 2010 - David Spark joined Belva Davis on KQED's "This Week in Northern California" to discuss what was Google's real plan with the release of the Nexus One, a.k.a. the Google Phone. Are they intent on world domination or are they paving the way?

