Well, this is depressing: A team of scientists from the University of Vermont appears to have proven via the judicious use of Twitter that people have been gradually growing more and more unhappy over the last three …
Social Unrest
Where to Find Santa Claus Online This Year
It stands to reason that in these days of social media awareness, one of the easiest ways of adding credibility to the Father Christmas myth is to point your kids in the direction of his Facebook or Twitter account. The problem …
Tweet Eternal: Pros and Cons of the Library of Congress Twitter Archive
Tweeters of the world, feel proud: You are creating history, 140 characters at a time… even if you didn’t know you were doing it, or even intended to. Thanks to a deal between Twitter and the United States Library of Congress, …
What the 40 Most Shared Links on Facebook in 2011 Say About Facebook in 2011
It’s not hard to look at the list of the 40 most shared articles on Facebook in America this year and draw some conclusions, although I’m not sure those conclusions are necessarily the most flattering about Facebook users: …
Pakistan Tries to Redefine What Citizens Can and Can’t Text to Each Other
There’s little to make you feel as out of touch with what’s happening with “the kids today” as discovering that there are all manner of words that apparently have double meanings that you were entirely unaware of. For example, …
Why Twitter?
What’s the point of Twitter?
That’s a question I asked my own Twitter followers yesterday, prompted by ambivalence and confusion after reading two recent Pew Institute studies relating to what was once called a …
What Happened to Anonymous’ November 5 Operations?
You may have noticed a distinct lack of news stories about Fox News’ website or Facebook having been taken down this weekend or, for that matter, the release of a data dump identifying associates of the Mexican Los Zetas drug …