Ah, January, when a young geek’s thoughts turn to Vegas and the International Consumer Electronics Show (commonly known as CES). If the San Deigo Comic Con is Nerd Prom, then CES is Geek Cotillion. It’s your chance to find out what’s coming in 2012 and the best part is that Techcictement is there! Writer […]
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 […]
I was driving to an event in Upstate New York the other day and we passed Woodbury Commons. For the uninitiated, this is an area that boasts over 200 outlet stores. For those unfamiliar with the concept, an outlet store is where a manufacturer sells their product directly to the public without a middle man […]
Facebook. Why? No, seriously, why? Do I even need to discuss it at this point? You’ve logged in by now. You’ve thrown up your hands in disgust. You’ve done a search on Google looking for blog posts to reinforce your view that, indeed, this is a terrible redesign, which is what brings you here. I […]
If you haven’t noticed, Twitter’s a big deal. As a result, Twitter news is a big deal. So, when Twitter co-founders, Biz Stone and Evan Williams, publicly release their support for a new venture, people generally pay attention. Under the umbrella of the The Obvious Corporation, Stone and Williams released this vague statement to announce […]
Like the various uprisings of the Arab Spring, the London riots have led to a surprising amount of talk about the technology people use when operating en mass against the government. Text messages, Facebook, Twitter, and now Blackberry Messenger have all been targeted by governments as the sources of uprising.
The last week has brought a series of astonishing events to the streets of London. Looting, burning, at least 5 people are dead, thousands are in jail, and there has been over $350 million in property damage. It’s not the kind of scene you see every day, especially in a modern western democracy like the […]
From our “sure took them long enough” department: The New York Daily News is reporting that the NYPD has a new “social media unit” to keep watch for chatter of nefarious doings on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Using popular networking sites to bust ne’er-do-wells is not exactly new. If you type “Facebook […]
We invent the word techweird and I discuss nudist web coders, Latin American dictators ruling with a digital hand, and anti-pervert vigilantes at San Diego Comic-Con.
If there’s one job that’s been tweaked time and again by new technologies, it’s the President of the United States. Now, the Obama Administration takes the townhall model of interacting with the public to Twitter with the first ever Twitter @Townhall. While the actual White House uses lots of archaic tech, past administrations have embraced […]
