Tag: Facebook

• Lynda Barry: ‘Writing by hand on paper is becoming a revolutionary act’

  Artist Lynda Barry writes: Writing by hand on paper is becoming a revolutionary act. Reading a physical book is becoming a revolutionary act. Protecting the books in our libraries, the arts and humanities in our colleges and universities is becoming a revolutionary act. Doing things with warm hand to warm hand, face to face, without…

  Mar 30, 2018

  # art, attention, Facebook, Lynda Barry, paper, preservation of tangibility, privacy, technology, writing

• How I’ve made my social media better

  Here are some browser extensions and tools I’ve been using to make my experience on the Big Three social networks better: Twitter Since 2012 I’ve been using the extension Fix Twitter [update: now defunct] to swap the right and left columns to put the feed back on the left, as it was pre-2012. Mostly cosmetic,…

  Mar 23, 2018

  # Facebook, Instagram, social media, technology, Twitter

• Cmd + Ctrl: towards smarter searching and dumber devices

  Let me echo Austin Kleon’s ode to the search box: Maybe it’s not so much the command prompt I’m nostalgic for, but the days when the computer wouldn’t do anything without me — I had to explicitly tell the computer what I wanted to do, and if I didn’t tell it, it would just sit…

  Dec 30, 2017

  # Ask Jeeves, Austin Kleon, computers, Cory Doctorow, design, Facebook, Internet, search, technology

• The Millennials Will Be All Right

  I finally read Joel Stein’s Time magazine piece on the Millennial Generation, called “The Me Me Me Generation.” For the record, unlike some of my Millennial cohorts I hate “selfies” (the term and the thing it describes), I don’t feel entitled to a great job right out of school, and I don’t sleep next to…

  May 21, 2013

  # America, Baby Boomers, Facebook, Instagram, Joel Stein, Millennials, technology, time, Twitter

• Pruning the Rosebushes: What Not to Share

  There’s a scene in Saving Private Ryan when Matt Damon’s Pvt. Ryan and Tom Hanks’ Capt. Miller sit and chat, waiting for the impending German offensive to hit their French town. Ryan’s three brothers had recently died and he can’t remember their faces. The Captain tells him to think of a specific context, something they’d shared…

  Jan 3, 2012

  # attention, Facebook, Instagram, life, Matt Damon, Saving Private Ryan, social media, technology, Tom Hanks, Twitter, WordPress

• Facebook vs. Wikileaks

  What’s the difference between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange? A recent Saturday Night Live skit with Bill Hader as Assange answered that question: “I give you private information on corporations for free and I’m a villain,” he says. “Mark Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man…

  Jan 3, 2011

  # Facebook, politics, privacy, social media, technology, Time magazine, Wikileaks