Twitter Finally Gets a Grown-Up Design

Twitter has just launched a new site design, finally varying from its trademark sky-blue and cloudy background. One of the biggest criticisms of Twitter over the past few months has been that it seems to be having major growing pains, and since it got a nice [...]

GQ’s Business Lingo Guidebook

In my reading of GQ this past month, I stumbled upon an article about corporate lingo which I thought included some amazing analysis of select lingo that people like to sling around and it hits the nail right on the head. I feel that it needs [...]

Welcome to Your New Facebook Array?

I just logged into facebook and saw as my homepage (the ‘home’ page in facebook, not my browser’s homepage) was loading that the page title has changed. It has always said ‘Facebook | Home’ at the top of the browser or tab, depending on what browser [...]

Social Networking in the Collegiate Market: Part III (Your Marketing Shouldn’t Come From You)

The collegiate world is separate from all other markets, in a way, because of the social tendencies and unique reliance on peer advice that are prevalent in the collegiate arena. As this white paper from Buzz Logic points out, user generated content and [...]

Absolutely Hilarious Bathroom Mirror Prank

This is a hilarious prank involving a fake mirror and twins!

from www.viralvideochart.

Finally a Federal Shield That Might Work

Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed the Free Flow of Information Act, a journalist shield law that would protect professional journalists from prosecution should they refuse to reveal sources.  Ars Technica has a good analysis of the Act and its implications for the blogging world: at first [...]

The Village Idiot

In case you haven’t seen the recent exchange between TechCrunch and some delusional pseudo-attorney, be sure to check it out and get a hearty laugh for the day.
Basically, some photographer took a picture of Ashton Kutcher and someone linked to it in a comment left on TechCrunch. [...]

Video Favorites

So I realized that I’ve seen quite a few awesome videos of various things online and have sometimes saved the better ones to Vod:Pod, but haven’t ever really distributed them because I think the rest of the internet does a pretty good job of that all by [...]

Politics and Social Media: Does it Really Matter Yet?

Everyone has heard the prime examples of how social media has impacted politics up to this point, but if you think about it, the only site that has really been making the headlines is YouTube. The biggest examples of national political repercussions (good or bad) are [...]

The Audio Exodus Has Begun

Huge news broke last week when Radiohead announced that their album would be sold directly to the public at a variable price to be set by the listeners.  Days later, Nine Inch Nails announced that they were leaving their label and would be selling direct to the [...]