Over at The Hookup Column, Anna Lind Thomas concludes her list of Dos & Don’ts for Facebook status lines with the following: DO inspire, uplift, support and spread love. Anna’s suggestion is a refreshing departure from the all-too-common focus on...
I love this paragraph because I think it distills and represents the pain and suffering so many people now feel around the role of technology in their lives: I like technology just as much as the next person, but sometimes I find myself feeling overwhelmed with it...
I overhear more and more conversations about how people cope with their lives online. We talk about our day-to-day strategies for coping with e-mail overload. We gossip about our friends’ Facebook profiles and worry about whether we should be joining the latest...
Yesterday I wrapped up my 2010 Home Media Overhaul and Documentation Festival with a blog post on why to watch TV. But I left another unanswered question on the table: why document your TV setup? Documentation is somewhere between a neurosis and a calling for me. As...
This blog post originally appeared on Oprah.com. “I’m writing because I’m an old friend of Angel J.,” the e-mail said. “I see from your site that you know her; can you put us in touch?” It wasn’t the first time we’d...
It was bound to happen sooner or later: someone has actually offered some actually human level, common sense about RTs. You know RTs: “retweets”, the Twitter equivalent of blowing a kiss, or maybe it’s more like picking the lice out of...
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