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 […]
Tired of Twitter
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 […]
Sorry, Rupert, I already have Twitter
By Frank Moher The Times shut down its old website on Tuesday and started directing all traffic to two new ones: thetimes.co.uk and thesundaytimes.co.uk. These are the ones that they propose, at sometime in the indeterminate future, to start charging for. I was interested to see how Rupert Murdoch, wily media titan that he is, […]
Twitter’s vicious circle
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 […]
