Tuesday, September 21 2010
Twittervention: Intervention for the Seriously Twitter Addicted
Are you Twitter addicted? What looks like love to you might in fact be abusing -- and therefore losing -- your followers.
Thursday, June 10 2010
Fruity Islands, Paw-Paw Bears and Gleaming the Cube: The Internet at Its Most Essential
Every utilitarian object in my home boasts an invitation to visit its website. Are there forums where pleased consumers come together to share their contentment about lip balm and adhesive bandages?
Friday, June 4 2010
Cloud Computing: Seeding for the Coming Storm
We’re being led to believe that nearly everything would be better with the cloud in control of all our data. What could go wrong with a world in which we don’t own anything, anymore?
Monday, May 17 2010
Is Social Networking the Future of Voting?
Imagine new legislation on every voter's Facebook homepage: voters could click on the post to learn more about it, add a comment to the discussion (140 character limit), and then click "Like" or "Dislike". Click. Click. Done!
Friday, May 7 2010
Google Image Search: A Map of America
Do a Google Image search on virtually any American subject and you’ll get a whole lot of superheroes and villains.
Friday, January 8 2010
Privately Exposed: New Facebook Privacy Settings Betrays Users
Without providing a choice to opt-out or pay a membership fee, Facebook switched Darrins and expected us not to notice -- and your private life was opened up for the world to see.
Wednesday, December 9 2009
In the J-Zone Zone
Like college, or Play-Doh, a social media tool is what we make of it, and J-Zone's got the skills to make things interesting.
Monday, November 16 2009
What’s More Dangerous on the Web—Hackers or Hacks?
Content producers have the power to be whomever they want, but if they let themselves be dictated too much by factors like Google, page views, and ad revenue, they end up simply joining a droning, mundane chorus of mediocrity.
Wednesday, September 9 2009
Digital Downsizing: CD to MP3 the Hard Way
When paring down your music collection, is it OK to prune songs off classic albums? An aesthetic (and moral) dilemma...
Monday, August 31 2009
The (Indie) Music Industry Is All Right
The media is too preoccupied with the funeral arrangements of the mainstream music industry to celebrate the life that is happening elsewhere.
Monday, August 10 2009
Your Brain is the New Factory Floor
"[M]ore and more, 'production' -- that word my fellow economists have worked over for generations -- has become interior to the human mind rather than set on a factory floor..."
Monday, July 27 2009
Teens Don’t Use Twitter (and Why Should They?)
Star intern Matthew Robson’s report on teen Internet use has one key takeaway: for teens, the Internet is fun, and that might be all that it is.
Thursday, July 16 2009
15 Second Theater Presents…
PopShots introduces 15 Second Theater -- radically distilled dramatic readings designed to accommodate the contemporary attention span.
Monday, June 15 2009
Surfing Alone: Is Digital Technology Destroying Relationships?
On the Internet, we must continually ask ourselves what we are doing, to borrow Twitter's slogan, which sounds at turns like a taunt, a greeting, and an admonishment from God.
Monday, June 1 2009
I’m in UR Culture, Rewriting UR Bible…
The outrageous and mysterious popularity of LOLCats has provided an updated take on the personification of cats, as well as a bizarre new translation of the Bible.
Monday, May 18 2009
Whither MySpace?
Like good nightclub promoters, MySpace sought out the ladies, then created an experience that everyone enjoyed. But is the party coming to an end?
Monday, April 20 2009
Human Optimization: ‘The New York Times’ Love Affair with Headlines
Search engine optimization (SEO) has sidled into the reading experience unbeknownst.
Thursday, April 2 2009
Far Cry 2: The Heart of Darkness Game
This is a game that is incessantly hostile. It is constantly pushing the player to become more efficient at destruction.
