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Will social search on Facebook be Google’s toughest challenge yet?
On further reflection Facebook’s announcement regarding upgraded search could be the biggest tech news today. Why? Well, Facebook graph search for posts and updates will make the network MUCH easier to...
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New “Hobbit” trailer substitutes more fighting for wonder
This morning, a new trailer for the next installment of “The Hobbit” was released online. All in all, this new vision of a beloved epic fantasy tale was much more enjoyable to wake to this morning than...
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Twitter disables links in direct messages [Updated]
Removing the ability to send links in direct messages is the first time Twitter has truly crippled its service for me. UPDATE: Per TechCrunch, this appears to be temporary, caused by a technical...
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What went wrong at Healthcare.gov?
Folks, I’m going to be on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on Monday and need your help. 1) What are the best explanations of what went wrong at Healthcare.gov? This digest by Charles Ornstein is a start but I’d...
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Apple releases first transparency report on government requests for user data
Apple, one of the least transparent companies in the world, has released a transparency report on government requests for user data.(PDF). Requests from the United States of America dwarf the rest of...
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Beware sexy honeybots spear phishing on social media
If your connected life includes access to sensitive, proprietary or confidential information, be thoughtful about who you friend, follow or connect to online. When fake femme fatale can dupe the IT...
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When speech becomes text, what happens to writing?
I successfully put down the baby for her late morning nap half an a hour ago. After running quietly around in sock feet trying to do things while she was out cold, I sat down to answer email and...
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Remembering Jean H. Hepner, beloved grandmother and Fells Point community...
I’m still processing the death of my grandmother this weekend, on Saturday night. I haven’t shared any updates anywhere about it online. I’ve gone through several stages of grief, from disbelief to...
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Preview of Season 4 of Games of Thrones: “A Foreshadowing”
Today’s mental health break: a behind-the-scenes featurette with the actors and directors of “Game of Thrones.” Of dragons in a non-dragon world, and much more.
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“High elf” arrested in Oregon, battling Morgoth
Good morning from 7th and Morrison… know just a guy getting arrested for stabbing a car with a sword @fox12oregon pic.twitter.com/1Ji8en6ZPL — teresa lewis (@tlewis132) May 13, 2014 A sword-wielding...
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What responsibilities does Facebook have to share great journalism?
This past week, I wrote about Mile Hudack’s frustrated Facebook update about Vox and the general state of the media on Facebook, along with many others, and then posted an edited version on Tumblr,...
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The original killer app evolves as email newsletters cut through the social...
[IMAGE: The BBN-TENEXA (BBNA) terminal, in the foreground on the right, received the first email. The BBN-TENEXB (BBNB), in the background on the right, was used to send the first email was sent. The...
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Don’t incite violence; Build urban cycling infrastructure and culture
I read a column on cycling and cyclists in DC in today’s Washington Post Metro that left me more than a little angry. Although I allowed myself time to cool off, I still sent off a series of tweets a...
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4 tips for social media optimization on Facebook from Robert Scoble
NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen has been trying to trick Facebook’s algorithm by starting his updates with “You guys! Exciting personal news: I’m moving to New York!” and “Big news in my personal...
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Out of the ashes of printed newspapers will come the rebirth of journalism
In a post on Medium, professor Clay Shirky says it is last call for printed newspapers. “My friend +Jay Rosen writes about the media’s “production of innocence” — when covering a contentious issue,...
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Reflections on online cruelty and kindness
This morning, I read an interesting reflection on dealing with online cruelty in the New York Times by Stephanie Rosenbloom: In the virtual world, anonymity and invisibility help us feel uninhibited....
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Twitter opens analytics platform to public [TL/DR: images get more engagement]
I briefly logged into Twitter’s free analytics service again today, prompted by a conversation on (you guessed it) Twitter about the demographics of an account’s followers and the news that it was now...
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On Columbia Journalism Review’s curiously ahistorical cover story about...
I read the cover story in the Columbia Journalism Review this week. Alexis Sobel Fitts wrote a great feature, as measured by its narrative coverage of the rise of the I f*cking love science (IFLS)...
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Reports of Twitter shifting to an algorithmic timeline raise concerns about...
Twitter is signaling that it’s going to change how it shows the timeline to users, or at least experiment with it. Here’s what the company CFO actually said yesterday, as reported by the Wall Street...
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Yes, it matters if senior staff at your institution use social media. Here’s...
Over at GigaOm, Mathew Ingram asks whether it matters whether some editors and reporters at the New York Times tweet or not, riffing on the “Twitter graveyard” that Charlie Warzel dug up at Buzzfeed....
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