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News Of The Tweet: Rules Of The Internet
05.21.2013 //
It turns out there are rules for the internet. You might not believe it, and neither will you once you read them.
News Of The Tweet: What’s Up Doc?
05.14.2013 //
Trolls are what exactly? Is the internet a sort of digital-biological valve and storage container into which bile is safely secreted before it builds up to dangerous levels and poisons the body of the individual. Trolling doesn’t mean much if ignored. Like the gall bladder we can forget it even exists and just let it keep spitting out venom that hurts only those that peer into the horrible, stinking abyss where trolls swim.
News of the Tweet: Doom, Gloom and Absurdity as Tincture
05.08.2013 //
“Everything is a case in hyperbole: the first ever, most moving, most dramatic. The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commentators. It’s time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.”
News of the Tweet: Tweets as Weapons and “Slow News” as Boss
04.30.2013 //
What happens when the world’s most trusted news source becomes a proxy for utter bullish*t? Well, that just happened. Here’s the story. Sorry, Associated Press…this one is going to hurt.
News of the Tweet: Battle of the Sexes
03.21.2013 //
This past week I’ve noticed more gender-based antagonism and friction than ever before. Is there something in the water or something more malicious building?
News of the Tweet: 97 percent of the Internet is as dumb as a hammer.
03.13.2013 //
RockShox’s marketing plan went to plan perfectly, and all because they knew that walking amongst us all is an entire army of utter mouth breathers who would be willing to bite on the lure set for them.
News of the Tweet: Twitter Hates Your Life
03.05.2013 //
’m a big fan of Twitter and one of the most frustrating things about liking Twitter is explaining to non-Twitterati that it isn’t just a scrolling screen of tedious social statuses. But now I’m struggling to argue with them anymore.
News of the Tweet: Follow the Leader
02.06.2013 //
Is anyone else nervous that the star of Enduro has flared up too brightly, too quickly and will burn out just as fast? Certainly in North America there is far too much talk and excitement, especially when very few people have tried Enduro or even know what it is.
News of the Tweet: Death
01.29.2013 //
Fake deaths, the death of celebrity and happy news about the effectiveness of the death penalty. Surprisingly, it’s all much happier than it seems.
News of the Tweet: The Value of a Like
01.22.2013 //
Can you reduce brain-dead commentary and message-board bombast by charging people for the privilege of commenting on the articles they read online? Perhaps that’s just as idiotic as the idiocy it seeks to eliminate.
News of the Tweet: The Speed Of Our Integrity’s Demise
01.03.2013 //
We have to get used to the fact that Twitter and other social media platforms will form powerful means for information transfer, but we have to make sure that we aren’t losing anything in the process.
News of the Tweet: InstaKneeJerk
12.20.2012 //
It seems like every two weeks mob mentality takes over and people indignantly chirp status updates about how miffed they are something has changed. In the early days of social media it was about the layout of Facebook changing, now it’s people being worried that they will see their photos floating around in the public domain despite the fact that they were quite happy to take that photo of their intimate moment and put it up on a social media site in the first place.
News of the Tweet: What is the Point of It All?
12.18.2012 //
Commenteers and forum users live in a safe house of anonymity that they can get away with things they can’t in real life. It is a sort of blow off valve for society, a vocal, yet noiseless, demonstration of a larger anomie raging within.
News of the Tweet: Instagram
12.11.2012 //
By Seb Kemp College Humor nailed this one. I dare any Instagram user to watch this and say they have never matched some of the behaviors they satirize. How do you feel about Instagram pulling images from your tweets? Are you looking for a workaround? If so, here’s one: usat.ly/QSpKMf — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) December [...]
News of the Tweet: Lies and Mistruths
12.05.2012 //
Bigfoot may just be our cousin, Facebook is ruining marriages and the Pope’s Twitter account is strangely silent.
News of the Tweet: Bombs and Boobs
11.20.2012 //
Tweets as weapons of war, boobs getting banned and all manner of Internet-related crazy.
News of the Tweet: Social Media Gurus
11.05.2012 //
What makes somebody a social media guru, a Facebook oracle, Twitter swami, Instagram unicorn?
News of the Tweet: Follow the Leader
10.30.2012 //
What does it take to become a Twitter success (and will doing so make you feel like a bit of a whore)?
News of the Tweet: Hashtags
10.23.2012 //
No longer innocent search terms, hashtags have evolved into something unique and more than a little disturbing,
News of the Tweet: The Fall Out of the Fall
10.18.2012 //
The gory details of Lance Armstrong’s doping regimen and revelations about many other top pros pharmaceutical escapades have created a busy week in Twitter World. An Austrian falls from outer space and breaks some media records in the process.
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