social media

The Quest For The Perfect Feedreader Continues

November 30, 2011

Ever since Google killed existing features in Google Reader and began catering it to their new (mediocre) Google+ Social Media Extravaganza experience, I’ve been on the hunt for ONE quick and easy way by which to deliver media from around the web to a single archival list which I can then share here and elsewhere. [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way, Google (Reader)

November 1, 2011

Yesterday, Google released the overhaul of its feedreader, Reader, which features increased integration with Google’s relatively new answer to Facebook, Google+. If you like auto-spamming your Facebook or Google+ timeline with links to articles minus context or, in general, do not think of the internet as a space in which to share information in a [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

Official VatulBlog Response To WeinerGate

June 6, 2011

Because my opinion matters somehow. Well, it did to the LA Times blog, where I am quoted only three tweets down from Steve Martin Yes That Steve Martin. Here it is: Get over it, you frustrated, misprioritizing tensionball of a nation just waiting to burst. I really don’t care if former South Carolina governor Mark [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

Give Me Ideas For A New Professional Women Geoscientists’ Network

November 12, 2010

I belong to a professional geophysical society whose executive committee has proposed the formation of a women’s network. Similar networks are American Association of Petroleum Geologists’ PROWESS committee and Society of Professional Engineers’ Women’s Network. Why bother? Who’s going to fulfill your energy requirements, for starters? Consider it a staffing problem. A large hurdle for [...]

3 comments Read the full article →

This Week In The Fight For Digital Culture

February 26, 2010

Much in the way of interesting and infuriating has gone on this week in the areas of intellectual property, privacy, digital rights, open source and Googlization. A lot of it comes down to the rights of citizens and businesses in a networked society both parties helped create, the crucial need to protect the public domain, [...]

4 comments Read the full article →

Tweet Of The Day

December 30, 2009

A friend recently complained, “Yeah, I still read your blog, but it’s getting a little too techie for me.”  Say it isn’t so!  I thought I’d moved a lot of that writing over to VizWorld.  It is true that I haven’t written many posts of a general or personal nature lately, but that’s because a [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

A Decade Of Blogging

August 27, 2009

The blog turns 10 this week apparently. Perhaps in its current template form, given that the whole concept of logging ideas, updates and rants on the web in plain, vanilla HTML pages definitely predates 1999.  Whenever and however it exploded, I am glad it did, as seen in how the weblog and forthcoming social media [...]

5 comments Read the full article →

Liveblogging From RT4: Net2NO Presentation

August 22, 2009

Liveblogging as usual, so keep checking back here for updates.  Also follow the #risingtide and #rt4 hashtags on Twitter. Jessica Rohloff, of Net Squared New Orleans (@NewJess on Twitter), up there talking about social media in New Orleans.  Call themselves “nerds* getting together for a project.”  Attended last SXSW conference to show that “New Orleans [...]

0 comments Read the full article →

We Are With You

June 15, 2009

Pictures of protests in Iran and worldwide – Flickr set Juan Cole | Top Pieces of Evidence that the Iranian Presidential Election Was Stolen fivethirtyeight.com | Iran Does Have Some Fishy Numbers The Map Scroll | Reading The Geographical Tea Leaves In Iran – “Those don’t strike me as the sorts of events you’d expect [...]

2 comments Read the full article →

“A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy”

May 5, 2009

While reading about Metcalfe’s Law, I stumbled across this vintage Clay Shirky talk on group dynamics of social media. With the exception of the Project Gutenberg discussion list (where I’m a lurker and which is its own brand of strange), what he said in 2003 still holds true for every single community forum, listserv and [...]

0 comments Read the full article →