January 23, 2012 |
Why I’ve Stopped Searching the Internet with Google
I’ve stopped using Google for web searches. And if you care about your privacy, you should too.
Digital Living
December 17, 2011 |
How to Crowdsource Your Next Social Media Avatar
Trying to decide which headshot photo of you to use on your Facebook or Twitter page? This clever trick can help you crowd-source a decision.
December 14, 2011 |
A Requiem for the Social Past
Sometimes, I don’t want to be reminded of the past. Social networks don’t help.
This “bubbling up” of the past seems to be happening more often these days, and we have sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter to blame. Conversations are meant to end at some point. But social sites want to keep a “conversation” going, long after it should have stopped.
October 24, 2011 |
How to Remove Facebook’s Timeline beta (“Profile” replacement)
If you, like me, are one of those “It’s new! It must be better” people, then chances are you’ve already enabled Facebook’s replacement of the Personal Profile page, which it calls Timeline. Timeline, it turns out, sucks. It lets anyone dive way deep into your past online history much, much easier than before. Plus, [...]
April 24, 2011 |
Why Tweeting the Live Election Results is a Stupid Idea
Canada has a law on its books which, each election, gets more media attention. Simply put, you’re not allowed to “broadcast” live election results until the polls have closed across the country. This wasn’t a big deal before the Internet came along, because broadcasters obeyed the law. But when the web, Facebook, and Twitter showed up, [...]
