I call myself, sometimes with tongue firmly placed in cheek, a “combatant of censorship.” My country (the United States for those of you playing along at home) has a long and sordid history of censorship to rival any other: From Puritan New England to the banning of books as varied as Huckleberry Finn and Mein […]
By now you’ve probably heard about the continuing saga of #amazonfail. Even if you’re not a Twitter user, or couldn’t care less about LGBT books and their Amazon.com rankings, the term has no doubt entered your lexicon. What you probably haven’t heard about, however, is the short-lived #linkedinfail that happened when business-themed social networking service […]
I’ve talked a lot about Twitter here lately. Everyone is talking about Twitter, even people who don’t use it. The fact is, Twitter has invaded our lives; not just the lives of the digerati, but those of students, moms, television personalities…even cats. Rather than texting, we’re tweeting. Instead of blogging, we’re tweeting. Sometimes we’re even […]