I’ve started writing the first chapter of my thesis (if you can believe it, because I can’t!). It’s basically all you ever wanted to know about Facebook’s history (especially with respect to its use in Toronto), features and business end. And I’m calling it “Opening Facebook” (har har). Anyway, I was digging through my old […]
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The downunder Facebook invasion has begun
academic australia facebook perth thesisIt has started. Last year it was all MySpace in Perth, but I’ve started overhearing conversations about Facebook on the street and seeing kids using it on the computers at school. Then this morning, while looking for info on their super gross breakfasts for a top secret project, I found out that Hungry Jack’s (the […]
(mainstreaming of?) social networking fatigue
academic funny sns thesisan e-card from someecards. [thanks daniel reda and stef carmichael!]
Toronto: I want my Facebook!
academic facebook thesis torontoThe other day, I was biking up the Bathurst hill and I passed the Telus billboard advertising Facebook mobile on their phones for the upteenth time. Fun fact: Rogers was the first to advertise their Facebook mobile service, followed by Bell and Telus. The billboard reminded me of sign I saw on the window of […]
As seen on Queen West West
academic facebook thesis torontoThere was a rather ratty looking guy with crazy dirty hair carrying a desktop computer, three rods of something, a half exploded tv-like electronic device of some sort and two bags of miscellaneous parts, all while trying to ride a bike… and he was wearing a blue FACEBOOK SWEATSHIRT.
ROFLCon documentary airing this week on CBC!
academic cbc roflcon spark thesisMy ROFLCon documentary is airing this morning at 11:30 ET on CBC radio, and again Saturday at 4pm. It features Tron Guy, David Weinberger, Leslie Hall and Anil Dash. Yay! It’s also up on the Spark blog for your on demand listening pleasure (skip to 17:51). For my first ever time doing radio, I think […]
making friends without the internet
academic facebook friends stalking thesisthere’s this guy that i started talking to… well… he started talking to me, at bathurst station, and we talked all the way up to claxton on the #7 bus. he isn’t on facebook (he told me) and when i tried to google stalk him, there were no results. except for this other guy with […]
Rethinking Facebook: From Zero to Two Accounts
academic developer'sgarage facebook friends.get sxsw sxsw2008 sxswi thesisAt the end of last year, I decided to delete my Facebook account because I was so angry with how hard it was to delete your account (among various other common complaints about said site). For I while, I had no Facebook account. Now I have two, which I realise is really weird considering my […]
but i don’t want to be your friend on the internet!
academic internet culture internet friendship thesisFono got me playing zefranks new project, colorwars which he’s doing entirely through Twitter (which is pretty cool in itself… earlier this year I wanted to run a pervasive game through Twitter but that’s another story entirely) anyway, you have to add zefrank on Twitter to play. So I did and to my surprise: Hi, […]
The new Twitter… is lulz
academic internet culture internets memes roflcon thesisEveryone 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 […]