How Marty McFly’s sneakers help your credit card company prevent fraud
Maybe not those sneakers per se, but my latest column for Fox Business explores five of the most ridiculous credit card charges […]
Happy Independence Day.
Happy Fourth of July! Before I head out to enjoy some red velvet pancakes, parades, and fireworks, I’m going to explain what’s […]
The Making of Barclaycard Ring
In an era of big bank consolidation, I’m excited that the folks from Barclaycard have chosen to leverage their “clean brand” to […]
Five Weird Food Combos
I don’t always just write about personal finance and music. My first food blog post landed at The Daily Meal this week. […]
Credit Cards of the Future
Fox Business, NASDAQ, and many other outlets in our CardRatings syndicate picked up my feature on four technology trends that could change […]
MSN Feature: Demystifying Your Credit Score
The folks at MSN highlighted a feature I originally wrote for CardRatings.com about the ingredients that make up your credit score. Each […]
Multiple Audiences, Multiple Networks
When I helped relaunch XPN‘s online presence over 10 years ago, our biggest concern was unifying the experience across multiple platforms. At […]
Best of spinme.com: Cultural significance, microfunding, finding collaborators
I’m through the hardest part of the “remastering” process on the spinme.com books series, so I’ve been able to spend more time […]
Why we never cut the cord.
I declared victory over the need to get a cable box in the new apartment in this post from a few months […]
I’m starting my New Year’s Resolutions a few weeks early.
Attending Barcamp Philly inspired me to solidify a lot of these ideas. There’s a JFDI attitude in this town that I find […]
Best of CardRatings.com: PayPal, Kardashians, APIs
Some of my favorite recent stories from our CardRatings.com Credit Card News blog: PayPal’s mobile app enables person-to-person transactions. It sounds like […]
Busting Your Performance Bottlenecks at Work
As a boss, I sometimes have to listen to a member of my team explain why something went horribly wrong. As as […]