Compassion from Unlikely Places: 2013 in Retrospect
The clerk watched me embarrass myself as I pulled out a palmed hand full of nickels and dimes. “Here, I’ll buy out your change. So you don’t have to carry all that,” he said, and I refused until he practically shoved two bucks in my hand.
Facebooks is Collapsing Under its Own Weight
In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg predicted that Facebook “sharing” would grow exponentially. It has. As newsfeed buckles under its own weight, some are wondering if “better algorithms” are going to cut it.
Facebook Privacy
As you may already know, Facebook has changed their privacy rules for the umpteenth time. In response, a status update has gone viral that users think will protect them from inappropriate content theft. I offer an improved version of the statement.
A Fish Out of Water: Occupy and the New Media Environment
Occupiers' alternative media infrastructure shook the mainstream
media trance. We are realizing that the urge to rebel is
everywhere. But the new anonymous power of the multitude to "culture jam" and create
discourse around power and control can also be used irresponsibly, even
dangerously. From Occupy Consciousness, a new free anthology.
Facebook’s Anti-Privacy Policy
The Electronic
Frontier Foundation gives an outline of the corrosion of users'
privacy on Facebook.
Suicide Machine and Goliath
Facebook blocks a tiny Dutch start-up that helps users kill their virtual personae and permanently log out of their social media networks.
