Emily Stine (@emilydstine) is a grab-bag full of fun. Travel poet blogger chic, Sci-Fi Twitter pilot (@LunaCalypsus) and Facebook anthropologist to boot. She spent two years as an undergrad studying the mores of Facebook culture. Onetime PhD student, tech writer, and nowadays a full time researcher and a part-time Master’s student; she's just your token millennial blogger. What else is new? Oh yea, she kind of likes to write about stuff. http://emmyappleseed.tumblr.com
Map 2.0. Paul Butler, an intern at Facebook, began pairing users locations and their friend connections and before he knew it, he had created a social cartograph of the world. When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that [...]
The topic came up with a friend as of late as I gushed platelets over the True Blood premiere. His response: Vampires represent everything that is wrong with America. Ouch. Really? Sookie? Edward? Surely not Edward.
Forget Icelandic volcanoes, the newest sensation to hit the digital nation is BOOBQUAKE!! Born from the breast of sardonic Jen McCreight, a 20-something liberal college student blogger of sorts, her quip on blog Blag Hag has been making its rounds ‘round the blogosphere as well as the mainstream media. And what is boobquake you ask? [...]
Well, I’m rather important aren’t I? Me and my musings of men as pistachios, Lindsay Lohan and her feud with (insert appropriate punch line here), the guy who tweets for @jesus, we’re all gonna be stored in some server alongside the Federalist Papers, and it’s gonna mean something.
I used to think that social networking sites (SNS) were only for the “socially active.” But nowadays, they’re everywhere. You used to only be able to get SNS on your laptop or PC, but now SNS has spread to Androids, iPhones, iPads and the like. With this degree of spread, it seems as if anyone [...]
For those of you who don’t follow the teen queen’s every footstep, Miley Cyrus gave an interview to Movieline.com the other day saying she’s really glad she deleted her Twitter account and that the Internet is “kinda lame.” She also tells “kids” to stay away from the Internet because it’s dangerous. Really Ms. Miley? Really? [...]
So being the semi-avid academic that I am, I don’t b.s. about bookmarking websites that provide a generous wealth of pop culture pulp for my pontificating pleasure. That being said, I can’t quite convey how much Pew Research Center tickles my pickle. It’s a site where the statistics are relevant and the digest is edible. [...]
February marks six years of poking, picture posting, stalking and miscellaneous relationship awkwardness on TheFacebook.com (as it was known then). Happy Birthday! Now I don’t know if you know this, but Facebook only used to be for kids in college. And the earliest adopters were either ivy leaguers or students at large big 12-ish universities.
Sunday February 7, 2010 Bill Braun of Denver, Colorado admits to tearing up on Sunday during one of the Super Bowl commercials. His girlfriend, Cassie Snow responds by calling him a whiny little bitch. “He always does this,” she says, ripping at a buffalo wing. “Every little thing and he’s grabbing a tissue. All I wanna do is [...]
Welcome friends, to the age of digital narcissism. You can do just about anything on the Net these days and the face with which you do it becomes crucial to avatar maintenance (no not the blockbuster, the digital representation of one’s self). So what if you’re looking for love, as many of us are? And [...]
