Twitter

As you probably know, Twitter has been down and then up, and then down again throughout the day. Without a doubt, Twitter has become an important communication channel for the Internet. In fact, I didn’t know about the fire at Pier 29 in San Francisco until I saw a tweet. The same person even published Continue Reading →

Satirical newspaper The Onion recently described Facebook as a project of the Central Intelligence Agency. “After years of secretly monitoring the public, we were astounded,” a fictional agency deputy director told Congress. He was happy that Facebook users voluntarily post “alphabetized lists of all their friends” and “even status updates about what they were doing Continue Reading →

(Content originally posted on Discovery.com.) The phrase “digital footprint” might not mean much to you right now, but it should. Digital or viral footprint refers to the mass of content on the Internet that can be linked to you and, therefore, located by anyone doing a search on you. The list of possible places for Continue Reading →

Just a few weeks ago, on May 30th, CNN published an Opinion article by Andrew Keen entitled “Facebook Threatens to ‘Zuck Up’ the Human Race.”  The title of this article was a quote from his article. It was so thought-provoking that I felt that I had to explore some of the issues he brought up. Continue Reading →

Just six million people caught The Tony Awards earlier this month on CBS, continuing the downward rating funk of this jewel on the entertainment awards scene. Of the big four annual network TV award ceremonies – the other three being the Academy, Emmy and Grammy Awards – the Tonys, year-in and year-out, land on the Continue Reading →

A hacker known as Reckz0r on Twitter announced that he has illegally accessed servers belonging to dozens of large banks. To prove it, the hacker released data relating to Visa and MasterCard credit cards. The data leaked includes full names, addresses, debit or credit card type, phone numbers and email addresses. Reckz0r claims this is Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120620_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Got a huge blank space in your living room and $11,000 extra bucks lying around? Sharp sure hopes you do.  The company released the largest ever LED television set coming in at a whopping 90 inches.  To give you a sense of scale, that’s as wide as Continue Reading →

A man with locked-in syndrome has joined Twitter and sent his first tweet – “Hello world”. Tony Nicklinson, who seven years ago had a major stroke that left his body completely paralysed, used special eye movement technology to access the social networking site. He is also approaching the high court to allow him to lawfully Continue Reading →

Twitter is expanding the range of content that’s going to be shown in tweets on Twitter.com, as well as mobile.twitter.com. According to a blog post, you’ll now see content from “a diverse and growing group of new partners” that include names like Time and The Wall Street Journal. Twitter says that you’ll see programs from Continue Reading →

Sweden has been conducting a radical experiment in free speech. Since December, it has been handing the @Sweden Twitter account over to a “normal” Swedish citizen to tweet as they like. “The qualifications are that they have to be interesting, Twitter-literate and happy to post in English,” reported the NYT recently, in a piece that Continue Reading →