Category: Technology

A Sweet, Salty Facebook Tale

I’ve never really been a social network supporter. It’s all seemed kind of silly to me, really. Just thinking about the idea of MySpace and

The 90-Hour Media Week

If you surf any given news site on any given day, you’re likely to find some university or scientist that’s published the latest research on

Get Rich Tweet Scheme

Clearly, I’m doing this writing thing all wrong. I write roughly 6 gazillion words a day, most of which are immediately cut (and sometimes burned)

Dicey Digital Diversions

The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a report titled Virtual Worlds and Kids: Mapping the Risks, that examined 27 virtual online worlds. The sites the

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The headline above was brought to you courtesy Fraser Brown, son of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Seems the younger Brown proffered those vowel-impoverished thoughts

An Unfriend-ly Trend

The New Oxford American Dictionary, North America’s last word on words, recently named unfriend as its word of the year. It means, in dictionary parlance,

The Twitter Diet

I don’t quite get Twitter. Perhaps it’s because I’m old and uncool. Perhaps it’s because I can’t say anything worthwhile in 140 characters or less.

Are We Happy Yet?

Facebook, the mammoth social networking site that seems to have its massive hands in–well, everything–is now tracking the “happiness” of its U.S. users. They call

Put Down the CrackBerry and Talk!

Some friends and I had dinner last night. During our conversation, we got onto the topic of technology and how it’s so addictive—how “CrackBerry” might

Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology

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