Thom Hartmann: Conservatives Corrupt Social Network

This is very sad. Imagine the level of cynical hatred of your fellow Americans that would be required to act in this way.

Rich Liberals Vs Conservatives w/ Author David Callahan

In this interview, David Callahan’s view intrigues me. He is arguing that the liberal rich has been smaller in recent decades than the conservative rich. However, supposedly with the growing technology industry and the knowledge economy, there has been a growing liberal rich. These wealthy liberals are highly educated and got their wealth through entrepreneurship. [...]

Checking the Facts

Debunkers of Fictions Sift the Net By Brian Stelter David and Barbara Mikkelson are among those trying to clean the cesspool. The unassuming California couple run Snopes, one of the most popular fact-checking destinations on the Web. [...] Snopes is one of a small handful of sites in the fact-checking business. Brooks Jackson, the director of one [...]

Ephemeral Media

Many things are changing with the new media. I remember a time when I was but a wee child sitting blank-eyed in front of picture box. When I wanted to change the channel, I had to stand up and manually turn a knob. That was about as interactive as it got, but now with the world wide web interactive [...]

Developing Technology, Controlling Society

Developing Technology, Controlling Society Posted on Jan 2nd, 2009 by Marmalade There is a lot of technology that is quite impressive, but most of it feels like its still in development.  The whole internet and computer industry feels like its in permanent Beta mode (similar in concept to Orwell’s endless, permanent war).  There always glitches [...]

Gathering and Organizing Info

Gathering and Organizing Info Posted on Dec 2nd, 2008 by Marmalade I created a chart at work to display some work-related info.  It was rather boring information, but I enjoyed the process.  One of my favorite activities is gathering and organizing info.  Its often what I do with my time on the web.  I love [...]

human connection… so rare and fleeting

human connection… so rare and fleeting Posted on Nov 22nd, 2008 by Marmalade There is something that has been on my mind for quite a while.  Being online has continually reminded me of it.  My first online community was a MBTI forum for INFPs.  As I’m an INFP, it was a very nice experience interacting [...]

Information Overload and the Internets

Information Overload and the Internets Posted on Nov 19th, 2008 by Marmalade I was looking at some blogs about virtual worlds and came across something that caught my attention.  The first blog I noticed was about information overload in terms of RSS-feed.  The blogger writes about the importance of pattern recognition.  Following a chain of [...]

Web Participation

Web Participation Posted on Nov 15th, 2008 by Marmalade From the blog Personalize Media by Gary Hayes: Humanity Slowly Returns to Creativity – 64% of teenagers engage in content creation Web 2.0 and the Myth of Non-Participation A commentor responded to the former blog with a disagreeing blog response: kakotopia And another blogger linked to their blog [...]

Online World: Tropes, Types, and Trolls

Online World: Tropes, Types, and Trolls Posted on Sep 16th, 2008 by Marmalade I started this thread with a specific site in mind, but decided to expand upon it.  The aforementioned site is TV Tropes Wiki.  Its a great site that is about tropes of all kinds in all media.  For this thread I wanted [...]