Category: social networking
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The Lowest Common Denominator
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen animated gifs were new and overused on geocities they were tiring. They were used by people whose homes are surely filled with kitsch. Facebook, with it’s declining user engagement decided that it would join the “me too” bandwagon. As a result of this we will see a noisier unsociable feed.…
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Video piracy in the 21st century
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I was watching a Magnum PI episode where Higgins had a film camera pointed at the television screen to record a game of snooker broadcast from “half way around the world” by satellite.  Today I noticed this article speaking of the way in which twitter’s Periscope app and Meerkat…
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is twitter changing your blogging habits? – A 2008 response
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYes and no. Twitter is replacing instant messaging and chatrooms. It’s an open method by which for people to communicate instantly with others. It’s also about the overheard conversation although that term has disappeared. What does “overheard†mean? Well simply that whenever two people discuss a topic hundreds of people are…
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Pride and media consumption
Reading Time: 3 minutesI enjoyed reading the Unbearable Lightness of Being so much that I read every book by Milan Kundera. I also read every book by Albert Camus because I enjoyed reading La Peste so much. Laura M. Holson wrote an article about “Unplugging without FOMO” which I skimmed after someone on twitter commented on…
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Social media, loneliness and isolation.
Reading Time: 3 minutes”The pathology of social media is all about loneliness” Social media professionals take the weekend off. Twitter users use hashtags so that their content can be found without being followed. Everything is turned towards discoverability rather than commitment and conversation. Social media practitioners know that people aren’t listening attentively so they repeat…
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A proposal for a crowdsourced portal acceptance system for Ingress agents.
Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople love to submit portals and portals add excitement to Ingress. The more portals there are the busier you are. Cities are fantastic places for ingress players for this reason. Geneva, Barcelona, Neuchatel and other cities already have hundreds if not thousands of portals but go to the swiss countryside, the…
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Staring at phones in the rain once again…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce again I was out in the rain walking around a city. Once again I was looking downwards and then up. I was also looking around and navigating through a city I have been to before but only for a meal and on my way to another place. I went there for…
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Lebara Spain
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you visit Spain and get a lebara Spain sim you need to set up two access point names. One is for internet access and the other is for MMS. I only point this out because dozens of sites tell you what the configuration requirements are but non indicate that you…
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Threaded conversations and community
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom the 1970s to 2007 we had threaded conversations through bulletin boards, forums, groups and other centralising discussion points. For a brief window of about two years conversations became so captivating that people wanted to meet in person as strong friendships were established. By 2009-2010 the threaded and personal conversations between web…
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Playing Ingress
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA virtual game you play in the real world. People will meet in Lausanne on this Saturday to play.