by David | May 13, 2023 | Blogging, Blogs
Dooce Was Brave. Funny. Self-lacerating. Self-aware. Bubbly. Withdrawn. An early pioneer of the “MommyBlogger” phenomenon. And now: dead. Far too soon. Many years ago, before the rise of “micro-blogging” platforms basically sucked all the...
by David | Oct 23, 2018 | Blogs, Digital Migration, new media, Video
Horror and sci-fi have always been ways for society to talk things that society can’t talk about From Invasion of the Body Snatchers in the 50s (fears of lurking commies next door) to the first televised interracial kiss (Capt, Kirk and Uhura on Star Trek) to...
by David | Jul 18, 2017 | Blogging, Blogs, Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media
No TOR, but Rule 66 instead I’ve been in Yangon for more than two weeks now, and I’m starting to run into the outer edges of what is allowed here on the internet. First, Netflix and Apple Music work here. So I’m able to (pretty much) update the apps...
by David | Apr 22, 2013 | Blogging, Blogs, Conspiracy Theories
Is every crowdsourced “let’s catch the Bad Guys” effort inherently doomed to wind up as a witch hunt? For a while last week, as we were all caught up in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, I was cheered up a bit by the efforts of Reddit and...
by David | Jan 12, 2013 | Blogging, Blogs
The blogging community is notoriously hard to please. Check out the vitriolic tweets directed at the poor victims who dared to sit onstage at the close of the NMX convention, talking about “Inventing the Future.” Check out the silvery television-headed...
by David | Jan 8, 2013 | Blogging, Blogs, Digital Migration
Somehow, I expected more of a mad scientist’s lab, with chortling henchmen. Or hench-Americans, as I hear they prefer to be addressed…. It is always dangerous to give a group of bloggers (should that be “a flamewar of bloggers”?) a stage and a...
