Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

The Serendipity Revival

With the ever-present, and sometimes intruding, information age presiding over our daily digest, we have become the consumers (and creators) of a constant newsfeed. Whether we experience total access to information as progressive or destructive or a hybrid of both, our participation in the digital age seems to be unavoidable and is (for better or for worse) morphing into a democratic leveling of information. The same...

13 May 6:00 AM 0 Read More...

I Facebook, Therefore I Am

Last month I committed social suicide. I deleted my Facebook account.   With no small sense of irony, I went to see The Social Network shortly after. What struck me about the film wasn’t the portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg’s lack of social skills (funny, for a guy who now runs our social lives), the speed of his success, or even how Justin Timberlake brought sexy back to hacking. All I could fo...

26 Nov 6:00 AM 0 Read More...

The Epigram’s Return

From The Smart Set: The Return of the Epigram. Though Twitter may be guilty for promoting (or at least encouraging) a short attention span, forced brevity is not entirely a bad thing. Humans have been perfecting the art of keeping it short since the beginning of literature. I, for one, am starting to see Twitter as a modern day epigram generator....

27 Aug 6:00 AM 0 Read More...

Does Professional Journalism Matter Anymore?

A couple of weeks ago, a plane landed on the Hudson River, just a stone's throw from where I was sitting at Space 38|39. I did not learn about it from CNN or MSNBC. I found out about the "Miracle on the Hudson" from Facebook, just minutes after it happened. My friend Peter's status read, "Did a plane really just land on the Hudson?" and I immediately went to work trying to find out what he was talking about. I w...

06 Feb 6:00 AM 0 Read More...