Joe Stanley
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This BuzzFeed/Dailyshow Dispute
Watching the “requirements” of social media and the expectations of posts on the Tumblr platform get infused into a debate about the validity of a news claim is strange. Gifs and hedgehogs and Biden and urbandictionary make appearances.
http://buzzfeed.tumblr.com/post/31010448118/thedailyshow-buzzfeed-thedailyshow
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pinwheelspin: David Karp and balloons! Yeah!!! :)
Can I just say whatever photographer thought that this encapsulated “hip, trendy online creativity / cats and memes” deserves an award?
(via anetapoland)
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The Loneliness of the Star Trek Universe Nobody sits around and plays Farmville. Nobody gets embroiled in a flame war concerning the portrayal of Klingons in human vids or just sits and watches vids with their feet up. Nope. The brave men and women of the future read (super old) books, talk to each other face to face, and even in their VR fantasies practice for things they will have to do in real life or, admittedly quite realistically, have space holosex. There is no WoW. There are no video games at all unless they are evil ones from Risa that will suck out your brains.
Because of this, and because of the lack of a social network, it is possible to be alone in the Star Trek world in a way which I would have to deliberately take action to achieve in my world.
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“We used all the available tools in order to communicate with each other, collaborate and agree on a date, a time and a location for the start of the revolution. Yet, starting Jan. 28, the revolution was on the streets. It was not on Facebook, it was not on Twitter. Those were tools to relay information, to tell people the truth about what’s happening on the ground.” — Internet activist Wael Ghonim says sites like Facebook are tools that can help connect people and disseminate information to the masses, but cannot create social changes on their own. (via nprfreshair)(via wilwheaton)
