Media Posts
And the award goes to… TWITTER!
Sunday night was the big night for a little man named Oscar. I’m not one to dress up and go to a party to watch the Academy Awards. I probably wouldn’t have watched even though Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were hosting (yes, even though I’m under 30 I do know who they are!). But [...]
The Google Buzz Value
I want to start out by saying that I am a Google fan all the way. Google.com is my homepage. I use the phrase “just Google it” just about anywhere and with anyone. If you don’t use Gmail you’re probably not a very good friend of mine. And I’m ashamed to say that I even [...]
Silly Rabbit, Technology’s For Kids!
One of the biggest milestones in my young, 90’s life was my first computer.
It was this big, white monster of a monitor with a CD-ROM drive and a “hard floppy disc” drive in the giant computer tower, and it came in one of those Gateway boxes that always reminded me of a cow (the black [...]
Millennial Media Suffocation
At times, I cannot hear myself breath nor think as I nervously reach for my pocket to make sure I have my phone.
For a generation guided by constant communication, my friends and I experience daily a world that awakens us with a customized ring tone alarm and continues with constant messages throughout the day brought [...]
Growing Up Facebook
I migrated North to attend Colby College in Waterville, Maine in the fall of 2002. Like me, Mark Zuckerberg was settling into his Cambridge dorm room. At the end of our sophomore years, Zuckerberg would use Harvard, along with Ivy League, and select Northeast colleges, to launch an online community that has since revolutionized the [...]
Art in the Digital age
No area of society is exempt from the power of the internet. Art defines our culture and our culture is defined by its art. If our twenty-first century society is based on connectedness, our culture is being brought closer together even if we aren’t in the same country.
Art, as much as every other part [...]
Twitter: My Filter
Going through my social media/e-mail fast, I realized how much harder my life is without Twitter.
Many of my digital native peers find the idea of reading what unknown people have for breakfast pointless. However, we like the idea of sharing everything, or almost everything, we do with the world. But we are afraid that Twitter [...]
The Digital Native Goes Offline
The first thing I do every morning, even before taking a shower, used to be checking my Facebook and Twitter. From the minute I wake up to the minute I turn off my light in the night I used to be on Facebook and Twitter. And it wasn’t only at home, but even at work, [...]
There’s Something About Twitter
Conversation with friend while randomly walking around the neighborhood:
Friend (very, very curious): So you met these people on Twitter?
Me (not liking where this is going): Yeah.
Friend (jeers): I thought you were smarter than that.
Me (offended): Whaddayamean? What’s that sposta mean?
Friend (now choosing his words carefully): I mean, it’s just so…16…
- Long pause -
Me (defeated): Yeah, [...]
Dear IMEEM I miss U
Just like most people my age I study and work while listening to music. Besides my personal music library and TV music channels, I’ve tried numerous platforms: from online radios, to Pandora, to Last.fm. Then I fell in love. I found the perfect platform for me: IMEEM. It allowed me to build playlists of my [...]
