Last month, Techcitement’s Daniela Weiss-Bronstein wrote a detailed article about the problem of excessive use of Photoshop in fashion advertising. Because people buy the unrealistic image of unhealthily thin women, this problem isn’t going away any time soon. So, what do we do now? Well, if you’re filmmaker and commercial director Jesse Rosten, you make […]
Years ago, friends and I were talking about how the price of DVD players coming down and how long it would be until we could afford to buy one. One bright fellow in the group said he’d buy one eventually, but that wasn’t where technology was stopping. No, he said, it wouldn’t be too many […]
Frank Warren, proprietor of famous blog/community art project PostSecret announced late last week that the site was permanently pulling the best-selling app from the Apple App Store. In a post on Sunday, Warren explained, saying that the decision was based on abuses of the app and threats from anonymous users. Like the PostSecret Blog, the […]
If you’re one of the thousands who got a new iPad for Christmas, here’s something you can try at home if you also happen to own a feisty cat. It’s not just a high-tech Jetsons-esque tool of the future, it’s a cat toy! [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdEBgZ5Y46U’] It just so happens that Techcitement had a glowing SnApp […]
With a year left on my Verizon contract, I’m right at that sweet spot in the two-year-contract life cycle. I’m far enough from the decision on my current device that I’ve forgotten most of the research I did last November, and I’m far enough from my next purchase that it’s not nearly time to start […]
Facebook’s new Timeline profile structure became available for everyone late last week and for the first time in a long time, I’m actually psyched about a Facebook decision. Timeline was introduced back in September, but now it’s available to everyone. In case you haven’t seen the new design yet, here’s Facebook’s introduction video. [yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_KzeEWewXU’] […]
Topeka, Kansas high school senior Emma Sullivan found herself in uncharted territory last week when she posted a tweet to her fifty-odd followers during a visit from Kansas Governor Sam Brownback to her school. “Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person,” she tweeted, adding, “#heblowsalot.” The governor’s communications […]
In what has become an ongoing problem, a blogger has come forward with reports of troublesome information suppression on Facebook. Jeremy Ryan, of the site Addicting Info, recently reported continued reprimands he’s been getting from Facebook due to people submitting false abuse reports. Trolls are now having activists removed by filing fake Facebook complaints. That […]
Last week, CBS CEO Les Moonves gave us an idea of his company’s attitude toward the increasing demand for online streaming of television content. On the subject of online content, Moonves had this to say (via Engadget): We — frankly, we don’t believe in them. We’re not going to go out and we’ve sort of […]
In the response to that New York Times article on Netflix’s recent woes, this short paragraph has gotten lost in all the Wall Street Sturm und Drang: Despite the decline in subscribers, the company did well financially in the [third] quarter. It reported net income of $62.5 million, or $1.16, a share, compared with $38 […]
