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I find this Everyone Votes poll on Wii exceptionally hard to...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:12:50 -0400

I find this Everyone Votes poll on Wii exceptionally hard to believe.

“Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) told more than 2,000 bloggers...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:37:08 -0400

“Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) told more than 2,000 bloggers and organizers attending the Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas on July 24, 2010, that our media system is at risk everywhere we turn - from our free speech online to the growing power of companies who own a massive number of media outlets.”

This video is the traditional animation of what would’ve...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:02:56 -0400

This video is the traditional animation of what would’ve been a mixed media video self-portrait. It was going to be a video will

I took a drawing class in 2006 and in the final I could do whatever I wanted so I decided to focus on what I had been studying in under-grad, and that was experimental video. This video was intended to be a mix media project that included traditional animation, 3D, textured stop motion, and photos. It was going to be a video will. I saw this project as a video self portrait because stating how you want to be buried and what physical items you’d leave to family and friends is a strong reflection of one’s self.

Sadly I never completed the project. The traditional drawing about a week of solid work filming and drawing up to 500 frames. Once completed the next semester didn’t allow time to further complete the project.

"The rapid monetarization of this data has sidelined scientists interested in exploring questions of..."

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:30:00 -0400

“The rapid monetarization of this data has sidelined scientists interested in exploring...

CNN: Should Facebook add a dislike button?

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:34:33 -0400

CNN: Should Facebook add a dislike button?: “‘Liking’ tragic news seems...

As a movie goer I’m excited, but I don’t think the...

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:56:00 -0400

As a movie goer I’m excited, but I don’t think the movie will have much cultural significance.

My instinctive response to any news about this movie, The Social Network is to give my customary portentous eye-roll, but every so often I hear my new media professor’s voice say “It’s easier to brush things off than it is to think about them critically.” (That voice is slowly becoming my own by the way.) So I decided to write a little bit about what I think of The Social Network on my blog in order to ensure that I crack my shell of portentousness and give it real critical thought.
First off The Social Network will easily get a ton of exposure and make a significant amount of money just out of the curiosity it’s 500 million users. It doesn’t matter if the movie is good or bad. I’m curious about whether or not the movie will have any sort of cultural impact, and I’m guessing it won’t because it isn’t anything more than simple Hollywood entertainment. But we won’t know that until we can look at it in historical context. It looks like a cute and funny movie that I’m sure I’ll enjoy watching, and as a movie goer I look forward to it. As someone who studies social media and new media, I really couldn’t care less about its existence. I’d be shocked if I learned anything from the movie. If I walk out of the theater with anything, it’ll probably just be a boat load of jealousy.

And just because I feel like I’d be doing a disservice to this blog post by leaving out a synopsis about the movie, here it is: The Social Network is a movie based on a book called Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal which is basically a overly dramatic interpretation of the creation of Facebook. The quote I found on Techcrunch by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz sums up the movie very well.

“A lot of exciting things happened in 2004, but mostly we just worked a lot and stressed out about things; the version in the trailer seems a lot more exciting, so I’m just going to choose to remember that we drank ourselves silly and had a lot of sex with coeds.”

As I said “simple Hollywood entertainment.”

Please follow my new daily photo journal blog. I will take and...

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:00:00 -0400

Please follow my new daily photo journal blog.

I will take and post a picture everyday so that I can look back on this year and know how I spent my time. I hope that a side effect will be that I try to do more exciting things on a daily basis.

Identity on my blog has never been a problem for me. I’ve always had a pretty clear idea of who I am and what it is about me I’d want to share on a blog. Sadly however sInce I’ve started with tumblr I’ve struggled to find a good posting pace. Whenever I decide that I’ll post anything that fits my identity all willy-nilly style I end up posting once or twice a day. I’ll than look back and feel like I should put more thought into my posts, mostly because of my career. I feel like my blog should look more professional. This seems to be too high an expectation on myself to produce great content and my post frequency suffers.
It’s like when I bought a super nice leather bound notebook for writing my ideas in. Because it was such a nice(expensive) book I never felt like anything was worthy of gracing the pages. Once I bought a crappy notebook I filled the pages quit quickly. Maybe that metaphor doesn’t work so well for a public journal, but I guess my point is that I’m my own worst critic by self induced context. I need to find a happy medium between post quality and post quantity that suits me and my lifestyle.
That said I think I’m going to continue writing more thought out posts here and balance the frequency with a daily photo blog. I love the idea of looking back on my life and getting literal snapshots of my day, but I also think this can serve as a sort of anchor to my main blog. An anchor that will prevent me from mentally drifting to far from my public journal.

While you wait for what I tell myself are little pearls of wisdom please enjoy my photographs. I’ll reblog them here every once and a while, but I encourage you to please treat yourself to a daily visual delight by following my new blog http://photographchronicle.tumblr.com/

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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:20:05 -0400

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My official favorite cover to an Oreilly book!

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:38:00 -0400

My official favorite cover to an Oreilly book!

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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:47:56 -0400

Alyssa Milano called me “sweetheart.” Your argument...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:37:51 -0400

Alyssa Milano called me “sweetheart.” Your argument is invalid.

Epic win! Alyssa Milano put the Old Spice marketing team in a...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:03:00 -0400

Epic win! Alyssa Milano put the Old Spice marketing team in a corner. old spice is either damaged by their own super successful social media stunt or they donate $100,000 to the WWF Oil Spill Clean Up. Alyssa Milano, you’re my fucking hero.

-full story at itthing.com.

"The second I won I realized I’d been sucked in and played. Social Media….The only..."

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:20:00 -0400

“The second I won I realized I’d been sucked in and played. Social Media….The only...

sblack8: This is what I got when I tried to sign into another...

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:23:22 -0400

sblack8:

This is what I got when I tried to sign into another account on Twitter. Basically it told me to fuck off.

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Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:00:00 -0400

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GPOYW—My Suit with a personalized label, “Grafx.” Just Internet nerdy enough.