Ello, it's me
I’m sure this has been noted many times, but it strikes me that one of the central conventions of sitcoms is that...
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hello Ello
Like everyone else I know, it seems, I’m fooling around with Ello. My first comment there was: “So if I understand...
popularity sort
The problem with Instapaper’s new Popularity Sort — essentially, an engine for finding out what everyone else...
crowdsourcing the Panopticon
When Jeremy Bentham came up with the idea of the Panopticon, and much later when Michel Foucault described the gradual,...
the ethics of self-naming
Rachel, the Velveteen Rabbi, says people should be free to choose the names they are known by, online and offline....
on the plusses and minuses of a social backbone
I don’t get this article by Edd Dumbill. He wants to argue that “The launch of Google+ is the beginning of...
minus Google plus
When Google asked me why I chose to delete my Google+ service, here’s what I wrote: First of all, I am not especially...
mine and yours
Why do social media always have to be about social competition? Everyone on Facebook is aware of how many friends they...
they’ve got us where they want us
Disturbances in the Twitterverse: first Twitter releases a new iPhone client that prominently features trends —...
the social trap
Andrew Keen: Today’s digital social network is a trap. Today’s cult of the social, peddled by an unholy...