Everyone wants to know what the next big thing on the internets is gonna be… At SXSW everyone wanted to know” what’s the new Twitter?” We’ll I’m not exactly sure, but I think it has something to do with lulz. Why? One word: ROFLCon… Mix up a bunch of super famous internet memes, some brainy […]
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You’re the 1990s
academic notacon thesisAfter our inaugural Psychogeographers of Ontario (POO!) walk, I dragged Helen, Luke and Dana to this used bookstore I’d been eyeing for a few weeks on College. I walked out with two old Margaret Atwoods and a Virginia Woolf for $3 a piece, but the real gem I found was Arthur Kroker‘s totally ridiculous pomo […]
Facebook: still normal
academic facebook sxsw sxswi thesisOkay, so SXSW is so last week, but I hate blogging while I’m at things because I like to digest and reflect, but also, I like to actually enjoy things while I’m there (you can blog when you get home!). Thus, I present part one of my fashionably late reflections on Facebook from SXSW interactive: […]
World Domination!
academic facebook mediaI’ve been quietly doing my ethnography and have been naughty about blogging since being back in Canada (a.k.a. I haven’t). I think all the snow makes me sleepy. But! The coolest thing evah happened to me over the past two weeks. I was interviewed about Facebook for three very different newspaper articles, language, topic and […]
lolcats: biznass serieuse
academic lolcatsI’m officially a lolcats expert (and a fluent French speaker, to boot!): Invasion de chats mal embouch√©s sur le web My Aussie friend Kat had it translated with babelfish, with some hilarious results: Invasion of cats badly embouch√©s on the Web Nicolas Ritoux, special collaboration September 25, 2007 – 08h42 Did you receive these laughing […]
facebook, printers and death
facebook socialweb web2.0just getting on facebook? forget it. the next big thing is rejecting social networking. in other (yet seemingly related) news, luke tells me that a bunch of australians have discovered that printers are as bad as cigarette smoke. i don’t have a printer so maybe i can start smoking now. clearly, it’ll all balance out […]
on a name (web 2.0 versus the social web)
socialweb web2.0i first came across the term “web 2.0” a few years ago when i had to write a blog entry about its use for NGOs as part of a job application. i had to do it in english and french. i bet someone had a good laugh about that considering i have minus 100 intelligence […]
silicon beach
australia barcampperth byteme perth web2.0perth had its first ever barcamp last month. con wiebrands (the ass-kicking curtin librarian who helped convince the evil tech admins to unblock twitter and facebook on campus) and i did a talk on explaining web 2.0 to n00bs, such as older folks or university admin who think the internet is full of pedophiles and […]
thought web 2.0 was a nebulous term?
thesis web2.0my friend adam passed along this insane job description for “social media officer” at the university of toronto. Experience: Minimum five years experience working in the field of new media from a content perspective, including web design/architecture, preferably in a large organization. A high degree of knowledge of and experience with ‚ÄúWeb 2.0‚Äù tools (Wikis, […]
facebook in 40 years
facebook thesis[stolen from richard stelmach]