Jamie Smith wrote this article.
When I was at breakfast recently with friends, the subject came up about Facebook and who uses it, what games do they play, etc. Interestingly enough, there were a few of us who were on Facebook, for various reasons; mainly to catch up with real actual friends that the user seldom saw or for reunion purposes, family and/or high school variety reunions; family tree research and the like.
I love the ongoing flaying of Malcolm Gladwell in the technical media — the majority of writers just can’t abide the thought that Gladwell is right that revolutions begin and end with people and pulses and not particles of thought whooshing in the social ether.
Continue reading → On Picking People and Pulses Over Particles in the Ether
A recent study has tied the size of the amygdala to human social networking.
Doyle Byrnes, a nursing student, loves her some placenta. In fact, she loves placentas so much, she struck a pose with at least one — without the placenta owner’s permission — and posted her shining, toothy, visage on Facebook mocking a stranger’s bloody afterbirth.
If you have $22,000.00USD burning a hole in your pants, you too, can incredibly buy an MBA on Facebook from the London School of Business and Finance. You watch free videos on Facebook to tether you in, and then, when you’re ready, you get officially admitted into the program and take exams and pay up.
Continue reading → The End of the World is Nigh as the Facebook MBA Arrives
In our ongoing, national, economic convalescence, I wonder if the result of such monetary heartsickness is a de-evolution of our moral presence into unsacred totems. I ask this in the recovering wake of the tepid immorality of Rev. Cedric Miller — who urged his flock to give up Facebook because it was a “portal to infidelity” — only to be proven to be a sinner himself.
Continue reading → Lust in the Age of Facebook: Where Have All the Moral People Gone?
Technorati recently gave their take on the state of blogging with lots of numbers and percentages — and I would really love to know who these people are who are responding to their questions. Does Technorati know the identities of their responders, or are these people only blindly self-reporting? I never flatly trust any number reported in a poll or a pie chart. I always subtract half the time people say they actually spend on “doing something” — including blogging! — and I always subtract at least 66% from any salary number people claim to earn.
Continue reading → The Deepwater Word vs. The Microblogging Shallows
When I was in grade school we learned a lot while playing what seemed to be very fun video games — games such as The Oregon Trail, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, and Lemonade Stand. Each of the games had lessons that were valuable for children, many of which I treasure even now.
How do we know what we know? Do we gain memory directly through experience or through the experience of others? Is remembering something enough ownership of an idea to give it resonance beyond our own mind? How do we know what to search for when we don’t yet know what we don’t know?
Continue reading → Knowing What to Look for and Where to Look for It
In a thoughtful article published in the October 4, 2010 issue of The New Yorker magazine, SuperGenius author Malcolm Gladwell posits the argument the next human revolution will not be via social networks like Twitter and Facebook because those modern day feebles rely on “weak-tie” agreements instead of the in-person, militaristic “strong-tie” actions of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960’s.
Continue reading → Malcolm Gladwell Crushes the Social Network Revolution
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