by David | Mar 4, 2009 | culture, design, media, photo, technology
I was engaging in some micronarcissism (that means looking at my Twitter page) the other day when I chanced to notice that most of the icons – or avatars if you prefer – were faces, most of those photographic. The old New Yorker cartoon said, “on the...
by David | Jan 17, 2009 | culture, economics, media, technology
I try to rethink on a daily basis, if not constantly, but like most people, I don’t do the Big Rethinking often enough, maybe mostly around milestone birthdays, new years, yom kippur, presidential turnovers, etc. Now I’m preparing to move and going...
by David | Nov 5, 2008 | eating, media, technology, urbanism
I got a message from Si in London recommending that I check out this upcoming TweetUp in Cambridge. Turns out it was at Andala Cafe, home of my favorite hummus plate and barely a block from limeduck world headquarters. Once again, the internet pwnz geography. The...
by David | Nov 5, 2008 | economics, media
At Boston Media Makers, there was sporadic discussion of Twitter advertising, mainly meaning people monetizing their Twitter use by selling ads either in their streams or on their profile pages. It was generally agreed that profile page ads were less invasive and...
by David | Sep 17, 2008 | culture, media, photo, transportation, urbanism
It’s rare that I know something about social media that C.C. Chapman doesn’t, but earlier this evening I left the third WBUR social media get-together and saw this tweet. So, for C.C. and others, let me set the context. WBUR’s social media guy, Ken...