Tired of Twitter
Posted by admin on July 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Mark Evans
Don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter as a way to share and consume information but I’m tired of the coverage lavished on it as a revolutionary entity.
The latest breathless article appeared in The Toronto Star recently in which the author, Antonia Zerbisias, talked about how Twitter was used during the G20 meetings, [...]
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Facebook quitters: get a grip.
Posted by admin on May 26, 2010 · 3 Comments
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 else [...]
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No alternative to Facebook. . .Yet.
Posted by admin on May 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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Blippy: too much information
Posted by admin on April 27, 2010 · 2 Comments
By Mark Evans
Confession: I’m a social media junkie – an enthusiastic blogger, active Twitter user, reluctant member of the ever-growing Facebook empire, and YouTube watcher. I like to share my thoughts and interesting content and online services.
The chances, however, of me using Blippy are zero, nil, nadda, nunca.
Why anyone would give a third-party their credit [...]
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Twitter’s vicious circle
Posted by admin on March 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Mark Evans
An open letter to Biz Stone, co-founder, Twitter:
Dear Biz,
I’m sure you appreciate the intense, burning interest that people have in how Twitter is going to make money. After all, you’ve got more than 50 million users, which has caused the monetization buzz to get more increasingly feverish the more popular that [...]
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Citizen Kos
Posted by admin on September 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
By Frank Moher
You might suppose that as the editor of an online magazine, I’m glad to see the collapse of the old-school, dead-tree print guys. You might suppose wrong. I say that partly because I still write for what we used to quaintly refer to as “the papers” (ask an anthropologist near you), but also [...]
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Newspapers: no going back
By Frank Moher
We are beginning to see the outlines of the newspaper industry’s survival strategy, and it’s going to be this: since what we’ve been doing doesn’t work anymore, let’s go backwards and try something else that didn’t work. Namely, charging for online content.
The signs are everywhere. When John Stackhouse succeeded Edward Greenspon as Editor [...]
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@H1N1
Posted by admin on May 6, 2009 · 2 Comments
By Frank Moher
By guest blogger Dave Carpenter
Word of the swine flu’s global reach travels so quickly across the web, it’s enough to leave the pandemic-aspiring virus itself a little green with envy. Yet our shiny, digital message machine becomes a double-edge sword when enlisted as weaponry against the outbreak.
To wit, the Twit.
Exhibit A: The US [...]
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Facing up to Facebook
Posted by admin on October 11, 2007 · 2 Comments
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 [...]
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All me, all the time
Posted by admin on June 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment
By Dave Carpenter
Consider the hour you’re in the middle of right now. Do these 3600 seconds overflow with experiences demanding an impassioned report from the nearest available rooftop?
Pretty run-of-the-mill hour, yeah? And you probably don’t need another digital distraction — say one that requires you to stop doing whatever has you occupied and tell the [...]
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