Social Media

Blue Light Special

18 May 2011

I very nearly broke up with Kmart last night, but I don’t want to talk about that. Those of you who love the ‘Things I Hate’ posts may be disappointed. I think the better story is in how and why Kmart won me back in 24 hours. I had a superlatively negative experience in a [...]

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You People Are Double Hypocrites

8 July 2010

I thought I’d had all of the ridiculous games on Facebook blocked from my feed. No Mafia Party, no Crochet Wars, no Farmville, no Zombie Paper Route or whatever the fuck it is that people think is fun. It was a comforting existence. I’ve lived my life without playing any of these games and I [...]

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This Too Shall Pass

3 March 2010

OK Go has built its following entirely on video promotion.  The ‘treadmill video’ for “Here It Goes Again” has something like 50 million views on YouTube and won the band a Grammy.  But video is dead, right?  MTV and VH1 barely play them, don’t they? For good or for ill, the music is the important [...]

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Gandhi Was A Founding Member of N.W.H.

2 October 2009

Today is Gandhi’s birthday (da da dada dah dah – it’s my birthday too!).* Google, being Google, decided to commemorate the event by replacing the ‘G’ in their logo with a profile sketch of Gandhi. The Internet at large, being a bunch of jerkfaces, celebrated Gandhi by doing this: *It isn’t my birthday, too.

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The Next Thing

23 September 2009

(Since we’re still not blogging on my employer’s new site yet, you get more workity stuff) Social media is not technology; it is a philosophy, a philosophy that relies on a set of complementary technologies to function. Facebook is not social media; it is a social media platform, the rook on the chessboard. Social media [...]

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People, Listen

17 September 2009

I have been opining a lot lately about the consequences of living in public. It’s been on my mind.  It’s even made me mildly paranoid about blogging some personal thoughts on a few recent dates.  Which worries me.  People tell me they admire what I write because of its unflinching honesty, both about myself and [...]

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More On Living Online

13 August 2009

This is a bit of a riff on an older post that I’ve been thinking about pretty consistently.  I’ve been doing a lot of reading and discussing about personal habits on the social web, and it has me examining my own. Twitter Why I Don’t Follow. I don’t reciprocally follow 100% of the time.  Some [...]

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Cover Your Ears For A Second

13 July 2009

Back to Batman and mixtapes tomorrow, gang. I’d normally talk about this over on my agency’s blog, but we’re getting a site redesign and our blog is on hiatus temporarily until then.  And after a convo with Matt Springer earlier today, I’ve been thinking a lot about this particular topic.  Apparently almost 1500 words worth. [...]

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Peer Into My Shattered Psyche

28 June 2009

Considering that my reliance on making references to movies and songs to communicate meaningfully with other human beings makes me a shorter, less metallic version of the live-action Transformers version of Bumblebee, it’s no surprise that Flickchart is the most powerful timesink to exert its force over me since Peggle and/or Bejeweled.  The site (which [...]

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