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 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 [...]
The ad below was Twitter’s first attempt to pitch their position as an “information network” as opposed to a social network. I like the idea. And the video is well executed. But it got me thinking…Is Twitter really just an information network? I do in fact use Twitter as an information network. Breaking news comes [...]
NURSE: @Jess_nurse I’m devistated! What am I gna do? X JULIET: @julietcap16 You need to remember that he didn’t tell you the truth. Do you honestly WANT to be with someone who lies to you? Ok, that exchange between Juliet and Nurse is probably not the Shakespeare verse you remember from your high school English [...]
It all began one night last week. I was in my apartment in New York, feeling somewhat nostalgic for LA, which like some kind of happy-slash-sad drug, makes you miss it. I turned on the TV and surfed. Caught the last few minutes of Californication. Sighed. Then remembered I could watch the whole episode again. [...]
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 [...]
I should say first that I have NOT seen Paranormal Activity, chiefly because, well…I’m a scaredy-cat and probably wouldn’t sleep for days afterwards. BUT, that never stopped me from a big picture analysis. Of course the hype everyone is hanging on to right now is the parallel between Paranormal and Blair Witch. And I get [...]
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