Last 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....
Continue ReadingIf you have not read the background to this study, please read this post before going any further.
The first aspect that I wanted to analyze was the sheer amount of applications contained within profiles. To make the count simpler, I narrowed the selections down to five categories: 0,...
Continue Reading[This is cross-posted at our ImpactWatch site]
The overly popular Facebook social network has recently seen a surge of ‘applications' added to its roster. Users hoping to enhance the experience of the social platform create these applications. As of January 2008, there are over 14,000 applications in circulation among users. ...
Continue ReadingI'm sure that there are some videos on YouTube of people driving angrily, and there are probably some of people who are angry about their drive. In fact, I'm betting that more of the later will appear on the site soon.
The cash strapped Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) —...
Continue ReadingToday the Newseum , Washington's museum about the news, is officially opening to the public.
I was able to visit the museum a few weeks ago since a friend of mine is a volunteer there, and many things interested me about it. One of the most prominent thoughts that I walked away with was although the museum mainly focuses on newspapers and TV news,...
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