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The Counterculture of Our Future: ‘Jacked In’ versus ‘Checked Out’
It’s appropriate, I think, that the first post of this blog covers a subject characterized by all four categories of the blog’s tagline — “media, technology, culture and life.” The idea for the post —...
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Wiki-counter-terrorism & Social Surveillance
An MQ-1 Predator drone returned from a mission to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan with a new paintjob, courtesy of StevenDuque.com. In his book Wikinomics, business strategist Don Tapscott writes:...
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The iPad: 3 Reasons Why a Built-In Camera Will Make It a Must-Have Device
Steve Jobs holding up the iPad, to be released in April 2010. Rumors that Apple’s highly anticipated iPad will ship with a webcam gives me reason to believe that Steve Jobs’ tablet from on high is,...
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The Buzz Around Google Buzz
Beyond Status Messages: Google's push into social sharing of updates, photos, videos & more. Leaked yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, Google announced the deployment of Google Buzz, its...
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Zeitgeist: Superman’s First Comic Sells Online for $1m
Action Comics No.1 (1938), the first appearance of Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. Earlier this week Action Comics No. 1, which features the first appearance of Superman, sold...
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Liberty vs Privacy: the US & EU’s Ideological Internet Collision
In 1863, Alexandre Dumas, famed French author of The Three Musketeers (and known for his love of women) , and Adah Isaacs Menken , a well-known Texan actress, posed for what then qualified as...
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New Frontiers: iPad e-Magazine Pricing
While magazine giants like Wired unroll plans to enter the iPad marketplace by summer, little has been said about the most pressing issue to most consumers: the pricing of e-magazines. Pricing iPad...
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Internet Access as a Right: the FCC’s National Broadband Plan
Should internet access be a right? The Federal Communications Commission thinks it should be. Unveiled on March 16, 2010, the FCC’s National Broadband Plan outlines an ambitious vision to make...
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2 Reasons Why People Trust Facebook’s News More than Google’s
Within a week, online intelligence agency Hitwise reported two big wins for Facebook over Google: a full week of heavier traffic and a higher loyalty rate of news junkies who get their news through...
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Considering Social Interaction: Even Techies Meet Face-to-Face
As virtual communications inch closer and closer toward simulating real-world everyday interactions, even techies, it seems, prefer meeting face-to-face. Gizmodo scooped a rare, public in-person...
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The Mobile Internet Era Is Upon Us
Mobile internet is here to stay, and our social lives — that is, how we interact with others, the content we consume, and the things we buy — will be indelibly shaped by its imminent ubiquity. The Dawn...
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Facebook Privacy: the Tell-All Generation Learning Discretion?
Privacy isn’t to be taken for granted in an increasingly ‘jacked in’ world, and many are taking cue. Last week’s security lapse that exposed personal Facebook chats was embarrassing for both the social...
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YouTube Turns Five: Changing TV & Creating Celebrities
TV networks hate it, audience-seeking creatives love it, and we all watch it: YouTube. Five years ago this past Monday, three former employees of early PayPal — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim...
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Twitter Places: to check-in or not to check-in?
A giant enters the landscape Twitter announced on its blog yesterday that it’s rolling out an optional location identification feature across 65 different countries to help provide context to tweets....
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Kinecting the Dots: How Microsoft’s Kinect Could Be a Game-Changer
Microsoft’s Kinect (once known as ‘Project Natal‘) could be a game-changing platform, if marketers and developers can connect the dots (pardon the wordplay). Not only does it provide unique...
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The Loneliness of Social Media
Are we becoming more ‘social’ as our lives are progressively saturated by social media? If so, why has the number of lonely people nearly tripled in the United States over the last 20 years, according...
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The Unification of Experience
People today are faced with the cumbersome task of dealing with disparate content on multiple screens, via multiple platforms, and through multiple profiles. The unification of experience is the great...
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3 Social Media Trends: Segmentation, Specialization & Socialization
You don’t need need to be an expert to conclude that social media are evolving at a rapid clip. Unfortunately, a lot of coverage seems more akin to conversations about another person’s favorite show...
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2012 End-of-Year Update: Life, Blogging & 2013
If you take a look past dates on my previous posts (not to mention their content), you’ll notice that this is the first time I’ve posted in a long while. Like my music, my blogging fell victim to the...
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