Living in a social-media world isn’t merely transforming us into brands, it’s corroding the essence of what it means to be a real person
The dismantling of Tiger Woods fascinates me for several reasons. Sure, everyone loves a scandal involving a seemingly perfect icon in sports, especially when it involves sex. It goes further than that [...]
Here is a collection of what I consider to be the best original tweets by me during the last year.
I did this project because I feel that in this world of oversharing and constant content creation, we tend to forget what we actually said amid all the turnover of attention we pay to the digital [...]
Tomorrow Museum presents an intriguing argument about my generation’s lack “of authors whose love of writing was born from years of geekery, starting in chat rooms and message board,” which jomc dubs the “l33terati” (clever term!), and puts forth a few reasons why such a literary movement hasn’t taken place.
The latter half of the essay [...]
Almost a year ago I wrote about the need for publishers to tackle comment identity and filtering if they desired for their online communities to be successful.
Since then, I’ve come to a few conclusions about comments on Web sites:
Comments are a form of content on a publisher’s site.
Comments should be treated with the same level [...]
In addition to deactivating my Facebook account, I also reduced the number of people I followed on Twitter by more than 50 percent.
Twitter makes it easy to follow more people than you would friend on Facebook, simply because it’s not a two-way relationship. You can follow. They can follow. But you don’t have to [...]
This week I took two fairly significant steps on two of my most-used social networks, Facebook and Twitter, to reduce my participation.
On Facebook, I opted to completely deactivate my account. Several of my friends have tried this before and failed, so who really knows how long this will last for me. As one of my [...]
As AngryJournalist.com hit its 5,000th comment mark yesterday, I began to think more about comments on the web and the lack of consensus on how news organizations approach the concept of online conversations.
The main problems with comments stem from two areas: identity and filtering.
Comment identity
I remember in my first journalism class I was fortunate enough [...]
As previously featured here, I’m finding more and more of my friends blogging. So, here goes two more I found.
+ Beck Diefenbach has started a blog featuring some of the photos he’s shot during his internship at the South Bend Tribune. I’m not a huge photoblog person, but I get more interested when it’s photos [...]
I just discovered Muxtape.com today via several people I’m following on Tumblr. You have to give it a try.
Muxtape has a lightening-fast sign-up process and it’s functionality is dirt simple to use. Upload up to 12 mp3 files (no larger than 10 mb each) and then send your friends an easy to use URL — [...]
Not that the comparison above between Republican and Democratic donors from Chicago is any surprise, but the Huffington Post has a nice Google Maps mashup that geographically charts presidential campaign contributions.
Found any other nifty charts, graphs, maps, interactive Flash apps, etc. that deals with the primaries tomorrow? Put them in the comments, I’d love [...]
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