By Frank Moher PARIS – It is a curious thing, to host the lions of the digital world in a series of tents in a public park. But that is what French President Nicolas Sarkozy did this week in Paris, for the so-called eG8 forum, a prelude to the G8 forum 173 km to the […]
Farm This Way
By Rachel Krueger When it comes to pop cultural infections, the only thing worse than hearing “Born This Way” AGAIN (again from when I heard it this morning, but also again from when I heard it in 1989) is getting a facebook notification that Jodie just bought me a cow and would I like to […]
Harper’s Facebook police
By Montreal Simon Uh oh. Talk about poking our privacy. The bitter nerd Stephen Harper has been caught with his pants down reading our Facebook pages. And looking like a creeper. From The Vancouver Sun: “Prime Minister Stephen Harper is suddenly on the defensive for running a closed and ‘unCanadian’ campaign after two university students […]
A Facebook narcissist? Moi?
By Frank Moher I have been outed. A new study by a York University student reveals that heavy Facebook users are “narcissists” who enjoy monitoring “how many friends they have.” Guilty as charged. I’m not sure I qualify as a “heavy” Facebook user — I’m much too busy twittering for that — but I am […]
Facebook quitters: get a grip.
By Frank Moher As those of you with way too little to worry about may know, May 31st is Quit Facebook Day. This is a Canadian initiative, once again proving that, while we of the North may not have the entrepreneurial mojo to create much, we sure know how to get all indignant once somebody […]
No alternative to Facebook. . .Yet.
Personal web pages started for the most part at universities, because students and profs all had accounts, so why not? Then the internet opened up to mortals, and a lot of them put up web sites, though often on their own dime. Then along came Geocities, which provided free hosting for people’s web sites. And […]
Other dangerous viruses
The swine flu and overnight singing sensation Susan Boyle have a lot in common, and I don’t mean that in the most obvious (and insulting) sense, so shame on you. The swine flu worked its way into Canada from the south, and the video of the self-proclaimed 47-year old virgin worked its way through the […]
Facing up to Facebook
Several months ago, following in the reluctant but curious footsteps of my significant other, I hopped on the Facebook bandwagon. Explained to me as “. . . a bulletin board that all your friends can leave notes on” and “. . . a yearbook and a scrapbook and a diary all crammed into one,” the […]
