Corporate loyalty has always been a problematic idea for me. Corporations, after all, exist for one reason: to make money. Toyota doesn’t care if I like my Corolla for a minute longer than it takes me to buy it. Yum! Brands doesn’t care in the slightest bit about my health (as evidenced by the release […]

Yesterday, due to distractions from school-work and chores, I almost shirked my demographic duty by missing the Colbert Report. I tuned in for the last few minutes, and caught Colbert’s interview with author David Shields. Shields has written a new book, Reality Hunger , which is apparently composed entirely of lines lifted from other authors’ […]

China’s Golden Shield keeps subversive foreign sites off of the mainland’s computers.
Australia’s Great Firewall Reef keeps Oceania’s Internet safe for families.
Even noble Avalon is working on a new set of laws to restrict file-sharing and other forms of inappropriate Internet use.
A Federal appellate court here in the United States has ruled that ISPs have every […]

I have been involved in several projects over the past year that involved creating and evaluating the design of web-sites and blogs. One of the key elements of a well-designed web-site is the content’s “findability” (a term that I’m not entirely crazy about. It reminds me of Budweiser’s awful “Drinkability” campaign). That is, it’s vital […]

This past summer, I wrote a post on Ping.fm and everything it does. It now seems that it has attracted enough attention to get purchased by Seesmic, a company that makes several popular Android and desktop applications related to Twitter and Facebook. This move should put Ping.fm in a position to continue its growth in […]

Recently, the last Facebook hold-out in my group of friends finally broke down and signed up. After congratulating her conformity, we talked for awhile about the service, about the profiles of people we know, and our own pages.
This got me to thinking about the philosophy behind people’s profile pages. How is it that people […]

A while back I read about a web service called “Penzu” which essentially acts as an online private diary. According to Mashable, it’s like blogging, but sometimes “you just want to record your thoughts and keep them private.” The article then closes with “If you want to keep a record of your thoughts, […]

Last week, I stumbled across an article from Wired entitled “Vanish: Finding Evan Ratcliff.” This article described in detail the attempt of one of the Wired authors to completely shed his old identity and create a new one for 30 days. It was part of a contest the magazine was putting on. The person who […]

I had lost sight of it, plain and simple. What’s made worse is that the world has lost sight of it too, which is why people across the globe say newspapers are dying.
I went to a convention in Washington, D.C. recently and paid homage to the main sights of the National Mall but was mostly […]

After I wrote the blog on MySpace verses Facebook, I noticed that there were a few comments and questions for me to which I would like to respond.
Do I think that MySpace is more applicable for the music industry? I do think that MySpace is leaning more towards the music industry rather than social […]