More and more newspapers are finally starting to see the writing on the wall about their future survival in our brave new digital world. Some have even begun their struggle to re-define and re-invent themselves, for better and for worse.Rupert Murdoch seems hell bent on re-tracing the same unproductive, not to say destructive, path that … Continue reading Getting Black Ink from Pixels
Category: Social Media
Lest We Drywall the Cat into the Wrong Side of the Wall
Social media seems inherently the ultimate pulpit for the self-important. While a site like TweetingTooHard.com invites us to out the self-important, most of the tweets are so mundane, they're forgiveable. Twitter critics like to deprecate navel-gazing tweets about breakfast foods and sundry itches, and while such esoterica of the flotsam of life might not be … Continue reading Lest We Drywall the Cat into the Wrong Side of the Wall
Social Gaming: the next frontier of spam?
For the past week or so, I've been getting irritated by Mafia Wars updates in my Facebook stream because, apparently, my having blocked the app in my settings did not, in fact, stop this spam stream. Curious, I started digging and came across this November 2009 article in TechCrunch: How to Spam Facebook Like a … Continue reading Social Gaming: the next frontier of spam?
Andrea Ong 