There are digital natives and there are the digimudgeons. The digimudgeons are already over the internet. They were clicking and dragging Geocities sites before most people even had dial-up in their own homes. They joined Facebook when it was a college-only site. The signed up for Twitter in 2007 before their bosses and families were on there. They miss Television Without Pity and Google Reader. And they are pretty sure the social web is destroying…
Listen. I don’t hate fun. Really, I don’t. I have even been known to HAVE fun every now and again. I encourage it. Within reason, of course! But this is getting ri-frickin-diculous. That link that you probably hovered on but did not click is a roundup of all the April Fools pranks Google staged in 2013 alone. I realize that Google is a global ginormamegacorporation that employs tens of thousands of people, so it’s possible…
The bots have discovered sarcasm: That is a super-peachy-keen post. Thanks for really blathering on like that! Seriously, I don’t think I could have spent more effort wishing for something heavy to fall on me to erase that nonsense from my mind! Ouch, sort of!
Remember this bit of strategic foreshadowing? No? Well, that’s why Al Gore invented the hyperlink. So my pal Ed and I sat down and had a little chat about the social web and what a sticky wicket it is, and we recorded that conversation for posterity and for a time capsule element I will one day beam into my children’s head pods’ humor modules. My one regret is that I was having such a mouth-stuffing…
I killed my Twitter account. I wish I could say it felt good, that it felt like a burden had been lifted, but that’s not altogether true. I feel a bit like I threw my car keys into the ocean. But that’s silly, isn’t it? Mostly I don’t feel much of anything. Do not fret. I’ll be around!
I like to imagine that somewhere out there in an underground art bunker in Kansas, a plucky collective of socially conscious guerilla artists is concocting outlandishly offensive and nonsensical and misspelled/English bastardizing pay-per-click ads and submitting them to popular websites to call attention to the ridiculous notions being pushed by the weight-loss/body shame industry. I like to imagine that they are inciting a quiet revolution during which the shame we feel when we catch sight…
If you’ve spent some time on Twitter, you’ve probably spent some time bitching on Twitter about some company that provides some service to you. And if you have spent some time doing that, you have probably spent some time reading super friendly replies to your bitchy tweets from CSRs who spend their time searching all of Twitter for mentions of their company. If memory serves, Comcast was really the first out of the gate on…
I broke my blog in a major way just now. I think I deleted a bunch of shit, including my WP install or something stupid like that. I was using Filezilla to do install a WordPress plugin that would have backed up my database and upgraded WP, when my pinkie — the most idiotic of all my fingers — hit the delete key and suddenly shit started moving and turning green and red and I…
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