Once again, the Internet is abuzz with predictions and theories about who is going to win American Idol. In the early days of the competition (back when Kelly Clarkson was still a nobody singing karaoke and we only hypothesized that we hated the British without actually knowing it through Simon Cowell),...
Continue ReadingThis is a going back to the basics post, but the private data you allow your Internet browser to save is an important topic.
Today my browser was acting up. So, I decided to completely uninstall it and start from scratch. I knew that one of the things that I would have to tackle is remembering passwords and usernames for several sites that I have registered for that I allowed my browser to simply remember for me so that I didn't have to enter this information in every time I visited the sites. ...
Continue ReadingThis is the final part of my four-part analysis of Facebook applications. (For the preceding part, click here.) In this section, I will attempt to make some conclusions and predictions from all of the data that I collected. For a complete list of every single one of the Facebook pages that I analyzed,...
Continue Reading[This post is cross posted at our ImpactWatch site]
Continuing the study (see the preceding part of the analysis here), I analyzed if there had been recent activity by users regarding the addition of new applications. Facebook applications can be added or deleted from profiles at any time,...
Continue ReadingLast week, Hugh MacLead of Gaping Void (his cartoon above) announced that he was leaving the micro-blogging platform Twitter because he found it was distracting him from what he really wanted to be doing: writing books and drawing cartoons.
Rex Hammock responded with a sensible post calling for moderation:
I like Twitter and have written on this blog about how I believe it can serve many positive purposes....
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