Tag: social media

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| April 28, 2015

the story of everything

A does something to B. (Maybe A shoots B; maybe A refuses to bake a cake for B. It doesn’t signify.) Social media...

| September 26, 2014

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...

| September 26, 2014

hello Ello

Like everyone else I know, it seems, I’m fooling around with Ello. My first comment there was: “So if I understand...

| September 17, 2014

why the jerks didn't win

The conclusion of this Jason Kottke post got me thinking: People ascribe all sorts of crazy stuff to you without...

| September 12, 2014

a civil tongue

A sudden consensus seems to be emerging among a subset of current-event commentators: there are big problems with with...

| September 1, 2014

intimacy gradients

Pay attention to the links here: Tim Maly pointed me to this 2004 post by Christopher Allen that draws on the famous...

| September 1, 2014

more on Twitter

Just a couple of follow-up thoughts: 1) I had forgotten, but this piece by Robinson Meyer and Adrienne LaFrance got at...

| August 31, 2014

The end of Big Twitter

As long as I’ve been on Twitter (I started in March 2007) people have been complaining about Twitter. But recently...

| August 26, 2014

who wants to know?

So here’s a survey that wants to know whether I think I’m a narcissist or not. The problem — from my point of...