Dan Gillmor, author of the book Mediactive, wrote an increasingly relevant post in 2009 after botched reporting of the shooting in Fort Hood, Texas, in a call for what Harvard University’s Ethan Zuckerman calls a “Slow-News Movement.” Like many other people who’ve been burned by believing too quickly, I’ve learned to put almost all of […]
Facebook just can’t leave well enough alone. Without any warning to you, Facebook changed your default email address on your profile page to your Facebook email. Yes, every single one of you. And yes, Facebook changed your listed email address to be your Facebook email address, a thing many of you probably didn’t even know […]
Time was, if you clicked the “like” button on a Facebook page, the page’s posts were automatically served to your Facebook news feed. That was the point of “liking” a page — for the more internet-capable, it was touted as a replacement for RSS. But just as Facebook now tries to automate the publication of […]
If you’ve spent more than 10 seconds on YouTube, you know it’s home to some of the worst trolls the internet has to offer. Seriously, haters are like a cottage industry over there. This morning, Isabel Fay and the rest of the folks at Clever Pie released “Thank You, Hater!,” a response to trolls in […]
Back before we even had the term social network, LinkedIn debuted with their online personal networking solution. Targeting people who wanted to build work connections, I distinctly recall signing up for it and thinking “and now what?” I still use my account, but only because the tool I use to update my Twitter and Facebook […]
What’s the first thing you look for in a computer? Speed, OS, price? What about the shape of the rear end of the model standing next to it? ASUS sent out a tweet about their Transformer AIO, which was being shown by a young woman in a tight dress, which read “The rear looks pretty […]
Russian singer and internet celebrity Eduard Khil has died this morning. According to the AP, his death in a St. Petersburg hospital comes after a stroke in April. You may not know Khil by name, but if you went on the internet any time in 2010, you probably know him from his claim to internet-fame, […]
We’re pleased to announce that starting today, you’ll see a revamped comments section at the bottom of each Techcitement article. Disqus, the commenting service we use, began previewing on a broad scale its newest iteration nearly a month ago. After watching the improvements for a few weeks, we feel it’s now stable enough to roll […]
I had the distinct pleasure to attend TechCrunch’s Disrupt expo this past Monday in New York City, where many startup companies exhibited their products for various news outlets, potential investors, and their peers. While Disrupt NYC had many different startups, as well as live blogged discussions, I focused on the Israeli startups, all located in […]
Ah, temptation. You see a device just sitting there, say an iPhone, so you decide to swipe it. Except, it turns out that you’re not too technically inclined, and you don’t take the time to erase it. Unbeknownst to you, the iPhone starts saving the photos you’re snapping to the original owner’s PhotoStream. Oops. According […]
