I encourage everyone to pick up the last issue of Fourteenth Street magazine — the cover story is about Facebook ruining lives. Actually, the feature highlights four different social media outlets — Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LiveJournal. Four different writers put their personal accounts onto the page in a very telling manner — also tells [...]

Essentially, as soon as you put those two little magical letters (RT) before reposting someone else’s tweet you are participating in viral marketing. While, it might just be something clever or thoughtful rather than actually promoting something, by retweeting what they said you are jut promoting them. That is all fine and dandy, but it is [...]

As everyone likes to note, my generation grew up with computers and technology. That little anecdote is getting old pretty fast, but being old doesn’t mean that it isn’t true. In my opinion, we’ve had the opportunity to be fully emerged in this great age of technology — even better we’ve watched, and participated, in the [...]

Why the Internet is awesome #789: Promoting yourself is not (always) considered narcissistic. We might not all be living in public to the extreme that Josh Harris might have thought we would ( who is Josh Harris? WATCH THIS! ) but, it’s pretty damn close with the amount of information about ourselves that we readily post [...]

Out of curiosity, I checked out Apple. Does a company with such a following even need a strong social media presence? I assumed that most of their social media presence would be created by Apple users rather than an official presence. We all know what they say about people who assume things — but this time [...]

I will admit, I used to be very against foursquare. I was also very public with my hate of foursquare. Who cares where anyone is? Not me! Well, I guess I care now because I am totally into foursquare. Perhaps I didn’t fully understand what foursquare was during my hating days. Let me break it down [...]

Ever want to put a PDF on Facebook but you didn’t know how do it??? issuu.com is your answer!   It is super easy — all you have to do is make an account (free!) and then you can upload PDFs onto your issuu library. From the library it creates a link and then you can [...]

I’m the editor-in-chief of Temple’s student run magazine, Fourteenth Street . I can confidently say that our organization is mostly a decentralized organization. As I am essentially in charge I do have a co-editor, but we don’t really bark orders so to speak. When we make decisions it is very much a group process and I prefer [...]

Maybe not 12, but I can think of four. Four can easily turn into 12 in a few months, right? When Christine Cavalier talks about the “fellow believers” I definitely think that there is a connection to the ideology in the decentralized organizations. The ideology describes a sense of belonging and a feeling of purpose. This [...]

This is a really cool map portrayal of online communities in 2007. Click here to check out the map for 2010. It is a funny, in a ha-ha way and an interesting way, to check out how much things can change in just a few  years.
(image: http://www.enterakt.com)

Overall, in a very general sense I think that using social media in a time of disaster is a good thing. Referring to examples that were provided in the inforgraphic, people look to social media outlets, such as Twitter, for constant updates. Even if you are a news junkie there are times when you aren’t able [...]

I have just added Site Meter to my blog! You can find it on the right side with the other widgets.

Check out this pieces posted on the New York Times home page: A Year at War: Staying in Touch with Home, for Better or Worse . Soldiers have the ability to be on Facebook, video chat with their families and send text messages. But, the question is: Is this a good thing? Soldiers before could tune out the problems going [...]