AltWeeklies Wire
Twitter-Friendly Atlanta is Not Fully Wired Yetnew
Atlanta is supposed to be one of America's most wired cities. #Truth?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Wheatley |
12-01-2011 |
Tech
Facebook and the Immigrant Generationnew
Facebook has changed the way we communicate with family, spread political messages, and do international business. Who says it's not revolutionary?
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
02-16-2011 |
Tech
Fund-Raising for the Facebook Generationnew
Crowd-funding sites help entrepreneurs kick-start their businesses, but are these new platforms too good to be true?
East Bay Express |
Luke Tsai |
02-10-2011 |
Tech
Missingnew
Lisa Stone turned to Facebook to reunite with her high school girlfriends; they turned to Facebook to solve the mystery of her disappearance.
Dallas Observer |
Andrea Grimes |
11-04-2010 |
Tech
Tags: Facebook, Lisa Stone
The World is Watchingnew
Don't want the government, big industry, and some 15 year old to know your secrets? You're shit out of luck.
Portland Phoenix |
Mike Miliard |
09-30-2010 |
Commentary
Dork Cool: Brought to You by Twitternew
Four Macbooks and a motley assortment of cups clutter the table at The Bean and Leaf here on a cloudy Wednesday morning. The monitors flash with Twitter and Facebook updates while multiple conversations are being held over the din of the coffee house.
New Haven Advocate |
Rebecca Lucente |
03-30-2010 |
Tech
Field Guide to Facebooknew
Log on at your own peril! We take you on a surfing safari and break down the site's 19 most browser-busting bozos.
Boston Phoenix |
Kara Baskin |
09-03-2009 |
Tech
Open Web Advocates Say Social Media Needs Reformnew
A question that's increasingly being raised is: Who should control all of the data shared through social media sites -- the user or the service?
The Georgia Straight |
Jeffery Simpson |
08-18-2009 |
Tech
Social Networking is Ruining Your Summernew
Warm weather is supposed to be about perching on a saggy lawn chair during a backyard barbecue, swatting at mosquitoes and waiting for a turn at the beer-pong table. Unfortunately, I find myself struggling to balance my beer between my knees and my overstocked paper plate on my thigh as I furiously poke at my BlackBerry.
Boston Phoenix |
Sara Faith Alterman |
07-23-2009 |
Tech
Researcher Says White Folks are Fleeing MySpace for Facebooknew
Last week, a study showing that older folks have flocked to Facebook was all over the news. But word of an even more provocative trend waits in the wings: white flight from MySpace to Facebook.
Maybe It's Time to Commit Facebook Suicidenew
Blue-collar jobs that take place outdoors, involve manual labor, and don't interact with computers probably aren't at risk of Facebook abuse. But white-collar office jobs are a different story.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
01-15-2009 |
Tech
Embracing Skepticism in a World of Networked Identitynew
The real purpose of networking sites, we think, is to make it easier to stay close to the people you want to be close to, rather than perform for the world, and for that reason I actually Facebooked up last week. And will not, after consideration, blog next year. Facebook will work if I do nothing to it -- a blog entry is obsolete immediately.
Boulder Weekly |
Dave Kirby |
12-29-2008 |
Commentary
Exploring the Philanthropic Potential of Social Networkingnew
Against a backdrop of a Wall Street meltdown, ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the most expensive presidential campaign in history, reaching out has become much more than a process of tapping tried-and-true donors. So nonprofits around Charleston are increasingly tapping the philanthropic potential of social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
Charleston City Paper |
Dan McCue |
11-05-2008 |
Tech
Facebook Smackdownnew
A Boston University student and a Stanford student explain the joys and the bummers and the flat-out strange shit that come from living your life publicly on Facebook.
North Bay Bohemian |
Cassandra Landy l Brodie Jenkins |
09-05-2008 |
Tech
Forget Murky Coffee Dates -- Romantic Evasiveness Has Peaked Onlinenew
The entire discourse of "dating" today reminds me of what Roland Barthes said of text when he proclaimed the death of the author: "Everything is to be disentangled, nothing deciphered; the structure can be followed, 'run' (like the thread of a stocking) at every point and at every level, but there is nothing beneath."
NOW Magazine |
Jacob Scheier |
07-28-2008 |
Culture
