In-Person Relationships vs. Cyberspace Relationships

Trolls and LOLz: Cruelty On The Internet

Materiality In An Overshare World

#FollowFriday: A Great Idea Gone Fail?
When I first started using Twitter over two years ago, there wasn’t really a way to do things. Twitter had been around some time, but many users were still figuring out what we wanted to use it for. Times have changed since: we’ve figured out Twitter has more value as a conversation tool than a stream of status updates, we know the value of hashtags in keeping up with developing events, we have developed a way to credit those whose information we relay in our own tweets, and so on. But we’re all still learning. Every once in a while conversation will erupt around a certain practice–should we follow everyone who follows us? Are “thanks for following me

Happiness–There’s An App for that
There seems to be an app for everything, but an app for happiness? Really? I’ve been following the work of Signal Patterns Labs since I took a personality test of theirs a year or so ago. Signal Patterns develops psychology-based web applications like the personality test I took. Recently, they’ve been expanding their efforts and moving into the mobile territory with self-help, positive psychology apps that are supposed to “help people improve their well-being and relationships with others.”

Twitter is a Spam Farm
“Twitter’s value is in links…. What happened when Twitter started, it was supposed to change the face of communications–what happened with all of that?” asks Loren Feldman, founder of 1938Media in his most recent diatribe about the tech industry. “It’s a link farm, it’s a spam farm. There’s no conversations. It doesn’t f*cking matter, you idiots, changing your location to Iran? Jesus, you’re f*cking stupid. Unbelievable! … It’s all a bunch of f*cking lies! No one car

From Flames to Fame: Views vs. Credibility
My Twitter stream and inbox caught on fire this afternoon following a post by Dave McClure, a software developer and marketing nerd in Silicon Valley, regarding the importance of visual cues in calls to action (CTAs). McClure, who begins the post with a disclaimer that he has no professional training in user interface (UI) design, but goes on to say he has 25 years of experience, illustrated his point about visual cues by employing the rear of a woman shown bent over. In his post, The Faces! The FACES! It’s ALL About the F**king FACES!, McClure

Spymaster: A Low-Maintenance Game for a 140-Character World
It’s five in the morning and I’m exhausted but I can’t get offline. The reason? A Twitt