When I saw the title of The February 2nd New Yorker blog post Does Egypt Need Twitter? , I looked to see if Hosni Mubarak wrote the post. After all, it was a case of dogma superceding the truth, and that was a signature Mubarak move during the 17 days that preceded his resignation. But in [...]
The always dark and creepy world of Tim Burton is now on Twitter, in the form of a crowdsourced project. For fans of his 6-part micro-cartoon titled Stainboy, this will be a whole lot of fun. While Burton is not the first to crowdsource a story on Twitter, this controlled experiment will likely produce something [...]
The New York Times just ran a piece called “Who Will Be Oprah’s Last Star?” on what has been called the “Oprah Effect”, complete with slideshow of the beneficiaries of the talk show hosts immense influence over the last 25-odd years. Oprah’s book club did wonders for authors and she became a fairy godmother to [...]
I’m always looking at Twitter in that way one looks at a melon baller in the back of the kitchen utensils drawer–kind of like, what else can I do with this thing? It makes the cutest perfect circular balls out of melons and it is awfully fun. And every once in a while when there’s [...]
I met Gregory Bayne on Twitter, which is where I meet the most interesting people in my professional world these days. He recommended my blog on his site This Lovely Machine one day and I thanked him. He responded with the kind of generosity of a person who recognized and honored the fact that those [...]
With the popularity of Twitter, Facebook status updates, one expects to see all manner of ideas useful and useless, swirling around these platforms and vying for our attention. so it was no surprise when Mashable ran a piece last month on Twitter Art. The ideas tend to revolve around the age-old putting visuals-to-text using — what [...]
Chances are, you’ve been sucked in once or twice, most likely by Facebook. Farmville, Mafia Wars ring a bell? And there are lots more. As someone who didn’t really play video games as a child, and seldom played casual games before the smartphone revolution (in my head), the concept of social gaming as a real [...]
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