Deep Thought
When one of your film-department professors uses Twitter to ask you for a definition of a hipster, you’re in trouble.
For what it’s worth, I sent him these articles.
June 27, 2009
June 4, 2009
Eastside Commons
It’s summertime, which is high time for students to be looking for and moving into new apartments. I’ll be moving next month, and I planned to write reviews of my place after the move, but when I woke up this morning, I realized that if I want to steer people away from my current building, I should post reviews now. Writing a thousand words about my problems with Eastside Commons felt effortless, but I do worry that I wrote so much that no one will read my review.
I thought I would post my review of Eastside Commons here, in case it’s deleted for whatever reason. It’s difficult to know what information would violate the site’s terms of service. Do readers have any strategies for writing apartment reviews?
May 14, 2009
AP: Irish student hoaxes world’s media with fake quote
AP: Irish student hoaxes world’s media with fake quote
Shortly after learning composer Maurice Jarre died, an Irish undergrad concocted a cheesy quote from the deceased, and posted it to Wikipedia. News outlets around the world cherry-picked the quote and ran it without first doing a fact-check.
April 25, 2009
Valleywag: The Billion-Dollar Blackhole of Social Media
What does it mean that Yahoo was willing to pay $3.5 billion for GeoCities, but not $3 billion a few years later for Google?
– Owen Thomas, “The Billion-Dollar Blackhole of Social Media”
April 23, 2009
What Annoys Me About Twitter – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
We need to make the social norms clear: Twitter is where you talk about the consistency of your oatmeal. E-mail is for when you are running late for a meeting.
-Saul Hansen, What Annoys Me About Twitter – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.
April 10, 2009
Hipster Runoff: Nirvana wasn’t ‘that good’ nor were they very ‘influential.’
Kurt Cobain wouldn’t have killed himself if he had the sense of community that comes with joining a social network.
- Hipster Runoff: Nirvana wasn’t ‘that good’ nor were they very ‘influential.’.
April 6, 2009
April 3, 2009
Mark Cuban on Twitter
Tweets are the blog posts you thought about writing, but didn’t feel they had enough substance
-Mark Cuban, Some Twitter Thoughts
March 31, 2009
Nicholas Carr: How many tweets does an earthquake make?
Now at first, I have to confess, this struck me as kind of odd. Your spouse calls you to tell you about an earthquake at your house, a potentially catastrophic natural event, and the first thing you say is, “Was it on Twitter?”
March 18, 2009
Tuned In: TV Critic Exposes His Twitter in Public
But having spent some time using the service, it seems that 95% of all tweets on Twitter have to do with what the poster is currently watching on TV
-James Poniewozik , TV Critic Exposes His Twitter in Public