The Internet in general, and social networking in particular, is going to fuel the next several election cycles and shape our every day experiences with our friends, relatives and coworkers. I believed this when I was only using my MacBook Pro to experience these tools. On Wednesday, my life changed when my new [...]

Explaining Twitter's effect on my life is kind of like trying to explain Twitter itself; it's fairly tough. It certainly has had a positive impact, giving me the ability to stay informed in my friends' (and a few celebrities') lives, and to send out information relevant to my followers. I joined Twitter in mid-November and [...]

As the economic crisis looms over us, Americans are looking for cheap methods of entertainment. America's greatest past-time, consumer spending, just isn't cutting it anymore - how can you engage in America's most popular activity if you've been laid off or all of your money is going to pay off a mortgage that is [...]

Thank you. Yours, Dave P.S. - Welcome to 2009. P.P.S. - Get with Pandora on the whole Storm thing, wouldja?

I make a point of checking out Google's entities on April 1. In the early days I fell for the company's rather believable April Fools Day pranks... now I just make sure to check them out after midnight. This year, they're not alone. Here are a few links to some "lolz" I've noticed today: This year's [...]

I recently purchased Spore for my computer. I'm normally not much of a gamer, especially computer games, but I had heard so many great things about it that I thought why not? When I got it fully installed, though, I started running into a few problems, namely, EA's and SecuROM's extensive digital rights management software. [...]

So I finally did it. I signed up for a Facebook account. I know you're saying to yourself, "What?!?! There are still college students that aren't on Facebook?!?!" And my answer to that is, "Yes." But there is now one less. I used to be quite opposed to social-networking sites (SNS), [...]

Facebook is being used to corral parents in my hometown to a school board meeting this week. An incident at the local middle school has the fires of controversy burning hot, and the lack of communication coming from the school has spurned a fury of communication among parents and community members on the popular [...]

Reflections on the media in haiku form: TV invades space: Static infomercials blare "Sham Wow! Buy now!" Mute. Facebook is black hole. Join my cause. Five hundred friends. Poke my eyes out now. Old version cannot Open same stuff as new one: Binary Robbery. Pixels create life. Second life can start over Where is your first life?

As a 20-year-old college student, I am naturally an Internet user, and for a while I thought I knew everything there was to know. I had Facebook, Myspace, AIM, GMail and knew how to type in CNN.com or Yahoo.com for any news or searches I needed. I didn't even look at viral videos [...]