A friend of mine posted in response to a previous post: Some of my friends have gone so far as to get rid of their cell phones. They wanted to go back to a land line with an answering machine, only to find this was simply too expensive and complex to manage anymore. They just use Skype now. If you want to get ahold of them, and they're not home, ( Read more... )

It won't really be possible to track when the Social Media Revolution (SMR) started, if there even is one, because like all evolution, it started off slowly, much in the same way concepts like facebook evolved from concepts like newsgroups ( Read more... )

This series of posts is a reaction to this video about the social media revolution that was originally posted on the bulldrek forums. The video argues that the Social Media Revolution (SMR for short) is the biggest cultural revolution since the Industrial Revolution ( Read more... )

"It is the kind of stunt that has many fearing the worst: Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders plans to release a film about Islam. Politicians worldwide are already trying to stop the project, before a single scene has been shown. Critics fear the film could lead to bloodshed in many countries."I'm not sure why I'm so amused by this. Is it ( Read more... )

I rented Equilibrium for this weekend's movie night with my buddies. Surprise, surprise, most of us spent the movie going "Oh, I know what movie/book this came out of" or "OMFG, I saw him in Braveheart/Gladiator/Lord of the Rings," but when the fight scenes started, we just STFU, paused, rewound, then look at each other and nodded "high shutter ( Read more... )