Archive For The “Internets” Category
Am I more preoccupied with Christmas greed than Christmas giving? Maybe. Sue me. Really, I just didn’t get a chance to visit the ole Black and Gold Sports Shop (or as I call it, the who dat store) last time I was in NOLA and still have yet to purchase any SUPA BEAUXL CHAMPS gear. [...]
I just un-friended a dead person on Facebook. I liked him. He was a super-nice guy. But we weren’t close. I used to see him out all the time. But I graduated, flipped my work schedule from nights at a bar to days behind a desk, and got into other things. So when I found [...]
About a year and a half ago I took to this space to blast local sports columnist Geoff Calkins for calling Twitter a “technological advancement that allows the bored, the self-absorbed and the hopelessly narcissistic to broadcast every last detail of their lives to the entire universe in 140 characters or less.” I doubt he [...]
I went to set my fantasy basketball lineup and this was my Yahoo login screen. I don’t purport to be some kind of usability expert, but if your login screen makes me recoil from my desk, you have about a 0% chance of ever becoming my “everything.” Who is this man and why is he [...]
I get it now. You’re right, Facebook sucks. But my reasons for wanting to punch the jerkbag above in the face may differ from yours. This may sound completely irresponsible, but I’m not all that vexed about the privacy thing (and by the way, MoveOn, I think creating Facebook groups to protest Facebook is kind [...]
So, I just slayed an albatross. I just cheated my way to “Inbox Zero” by deleting some 800 unread e-mails and opting out of 21 —yes, 21 — newsletters, most of which I never intentionally subscribed to. When you’ve had the same e-mail address for six years (and Gmail’s bottomless storage), they build up. I [...]
You have until 11:59 p.m. Friday to vote in the Memphis Flyer’s annual “Best of Memphis” poll. Yours truly is up for “Best Twitter.” It’s nice to feel like I’m good at something, even if it’s just crafting 140-character internet missives.
With my iPhone, this blog, my Twitter and Facebook accounts, and now this handy little guy, I like to fancy myself as something of a citizen journalist. Of course, I’m a journalist “by training,” so says my diploma – but I always preferred the reporting part to the information-gathering part. In other words, I hated [...]
