Virtual Interaction & Creativity
As I usually am, I was being a smart-ass on Twitter yesterday. Sometimes I’m not sure what it is that gives me a spike of followers or @ replies, but often I’m convinced it’s because I used some...
View ArticleTwitter References and an IM to Dr. Jack
Edited for continuity. Also, more praise for humanity in general. It wasn’t long ago that I was bashing Twitter for being really lame. I think this post can quickly explain why I was wrong. Also, a...
View ArticleTwitter 180
Twitter is significant because of its ability to measure its users’ impulses as individuals and groups. It’s a type of EEG for the evolving meta-mind comprised by the information with which we feed our...
View ArticleIt’s not About Chicago, the Left, or the Right. It’s About Rio.
Let me start out by saying I don’t care that Mr. Obama went to Copenhagen. What better ambassador for our country (and Chicago) than a state leader speaking on behalf of a city he knows intimately? I’m...
View ArticleEditorialJoe – Sports Edition
Well, I started a sports Twitter last night to avoid over-tweeting my “EditorialJoe” followers with my constant updates/comments about the sports games I’m watching. As you’ve never heard anything of...
View Articleresistant to Twitter at first, but…
I think it was just me being selfish and resistant to a world where no single person’s posts really “matter more” than anyone else’s (except for Diddy’s and Shaq’s, of course). What eventually pulled...
View ArticleBye, Facebook
*UPDATE 8/31* Yeah, that lasted long. I’m back on facebook. I’m just not going to spend time on it like I used to. Only when I actually have something to say, as oppposed to the two-dozen/day updates I...
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