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 […]
On Sunday, I finally got to a screening of Slingshot Hip-Hop, the documentary of the Palestinian hip-hop scene by Jackie Reem Salloum. The documentary itself was very well done, both cinematographically and historically, covering 1998 to about 2006. Despite being a long-time hip hop head, I was fairly new to the Palestinian hip hop scene […]