"Would you let a skull pick you up at a bus stop? Definitely not. But on Twitter you find yourself doing all sorts of things you wouldn't otherwise do. And once you've entered the Enchanted E-Forest, lured in there by cute bunnies and playful kittens, you can find yourself wandering around in it for quite some time. You might even find yourself climbing the odd tree—the very odd tree—or taking refuge in the odd hollow log—the very odd hollow log—because cute bunnies and playful kittens are not the only things alive in the mirkwoods of the Web. Or the webs of the mirkwoods. Paths can get tangled there. Plots can get thickened.
Games are afoot."
posted by vidur
on Mar 12, 2012 -
57 comments
“Aaliyah would have been on Twitter. It is fucked up that she is dead.” Poet and Twitter entity
Patricia Lockwood talks with HTMLGIANT about Twitter, literature, twitterature, comedy, poetry, sexting, Aaliyah and Olive Garden. Lockwood suggests that there may be something substantial and heretofore unexamined rumbling in the bowels of certain Twitter communities and people (such as
@graeyalien and
MeFi's own @gregerskine.)
posted by naju
on Mar 7, 2012 -
29 comments
#JonathanFranzenHates: "Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose… it’s hard to cite facts or create an argument in 140 characters… it’s like if Kafka had decided to make a video semaphoring The Metamorphosis. Or it’s like writing a novel without the letter ‘P’… It’s the ultimate irresponsible medium."
[Via: Slate.com] More [Via: The Guardian]
posted by Fizz
on Mar 7, 2012 -
155 comments
"Planning to make a joke on Twitter about bombing something? You might want to reconsider: According to a
report from Britain, two tourists were detained and denied entry into the U.S. recently after they joked about destroying America and digging up Marilyn Monroe. That the Homeland Security Dept. and other authorities—including the FBI—are monitoring such social media as Twitter and Facebook isn’t surprising. That these authorities are willing to detain people based on what is clearly a
harmless joke, however, raises questions about what the impact of all that monitoring will be."
* [more inside]
posted by ericb
on Jan 30, 2012 -
99 comments
"You know how annoying it is when you're sitting on the train with a magazine and the person sitting beside you starts reading over your shoulder? Welcome to every single moment of your future. Might as well get used to it. It's an experience we'll all be sharing." --
Charlie Brooker on sharing, and why the world is doomed
posted by bardic
on Jan 29, 2012 -
101 comments
Arduino + servos + laser + phosphorescent surface + Twitter =
Fade Away 1. A thoughtful art project about the "permanence" of the Internet.
posted by pashdown
on Dec 24, 2011 -
7 comments
I live online as much as I live offline. Often, I move around in the world staring into a device as I walk, sharing bits of one realm with the other. The morning I went in for my first mammogram, I felt nervous. I would tweet this new thing, like I do with lots of new things, and make the unknown and new feel less so. Maybe by doing so, I thought while I was driving, other women like me who'd never done this would also feel like it was less weird, less scary, more normal and worth doing without hesitation. I'd crack some 140-character jokes. I'd make fun of myself and others. I would Instagram my mammogram.
posted by cgc373
on Dec 10, 2011 -
18 comments
Twitter
has launched an entirely overhauled version of Twitter, today, including a new version of its website, its apps, and TweetDeck (now native on Mac, rather than using Adobe AIR!). You currently need to download the latest version of the Android or iPhone app to see the new version of the website. Dan Frommer offers some good
first impressions.
posted by gilrain
on Dec 9, 2011 -
68 comments
Women journalists confront harassment, sexism when using social media You come to expect it, as a woman writer, particularly if you’re political. You come to expect the vitriol, the insults, the death threats. After a while, the emails and tweets and comments containing graphic fantasies of how and where and with what kitchen implements certain pseudonymous people would like to rape you cease to be shocking, and become merely a daily or weekly annoyance, something to phone your girlfriends about, seeking safety in hollow laughter.
posted by modernnomad
on Nov 22, 2011 -
39 comments
Maria Popova may be the best curator of Awesome on the Internet after the blue's own hivemind. Her site,
Brain Pickings, has been
mentioned a
few times, but no-one appears to have pointed out her
Twitter feed or her contributions to TBWA's tumblr,
Curiosity Counts. Some recent posts of note: a piece on
digital parasitism and the business of culture, Terry Prachett's self-documentary
Choosing To Die, her selection of
the best children's and picture books of 2011. Also, the best of Brain Pickings from
last week and
2010. When not doing all that, she's writing for several magazines,
organising the effort to
restock the Brookyn OWS library after its destruction by police, and
curating physical objects, sent as gifts every quarter.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Nov 21, 2011 -
20 comments
