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10 months ago

in FidlrHackr Tips #1-5 on FIDLR.tv
Eff the paper plates just use the stainless steel desk for a plate not just an ashtray.

11 months ago

in Médias sociaux : la tendance actuelle on Technofeliz
I left facebook out because it I was crafting a cheat sheet for people so they would know what's new and hot with the socialnets. Facebook is neither. People from the hamlet I grew up in are on Facebook and it's about as common and evil as Microsoft.

I'd write this in French but I don't want to butcher your language (I'm a better reader than writer)!

11 months ago

in Paris Hilton Responds to the McCain Ad on GordonBowman.com
Hey americans...Paris is a way better candidate than McCain. She actually understands popular culture and the internets!
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tumbleweedius She understands that the internet is not a big truck. That's good enough for me.

11 months ago

in 2008/07/28/iphone-apps-that-will-clean-out-you-junk-drawer/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
I appreciate this list because I am tiring of all the absolute iphone lists. All of them are so fragile because it's all so new. The beauty of them is the potential. And the fun in this list is the look on my handyperson's face when he reaches for his level and I grab my iphone. Pure fun.

11 months ago

in 2008/07/29/could-corporations-be-the-real-push-behind-social-media/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
I truly hope Senegalese women are a part of social change for you! Our responsibility, as the benefactors (continually) of colonialism is to not pretend that communication technologies can erase centuries of social practice. Did the telegraph? The telephone? The television?

Here's a really crucial idea for you: your attempt/belief to treat people equally and utopianism about how easy it is to be on equal footing functions to serve you. I know your perspective perfectly because that is the metanarrative of our western post-colonial society. Your argument falls into perfect alignment with it. You believe in democracy but have no understanding of egalitarianism or whiteness. Have you read Roedigger? Fanon? Laura-Ann Stoler? Spivak? Go, read, reflect then we can have a meaningful discussion on race, gender, class and privilege.

11 months ago

in 2008/07/29/could-corporations-be-the-real-push-behind-social-media/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
"...a level playing field for everyone within our world by utilizing the Internet as the method by which people can talk with others regardless of economic, gender or geographical differences and achieve change within our society...."

This is the most amusing thing I've read all day and I thank you for it.

I, for one, don't want change in society and I am sick to death of all the poor black Senegalese women monopolizing the socialnets and tech blogs. Let's have way less egalitarianism online and give it all back to the white men. They need not sacrifice any longer.

Oh wait! Gender, class and race are internalized (Franz Fanon, Mashable? Anyone). We can't leave them at the the digital borders because we re-inscribe our social selves with every socially contextualized click of the key.
Yours is a dangerous, oppressive perspective. Please let it go.
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Steven Hodson Chantelle,

o where did I suggest that social change had anything to do with Senegalese women. If you knew of my writing either here or on my home blog (http://www.winextra.com) or heard me on any of the Elite Tech News podcasts you would know that I continually suggest that we need to deal with our own homelessness, technological divide and ideally I would prefer that this was the society that was changed.

and how does treating anyone equally mean leaving our personal class or race at the door. The idea of social media - or so the warm and fuzzy crowd like to suggest - is that we don't have to leave anything at the digital borders as you put it and yet we can still be on an equal footing.

Until you know me better please do not assume that you know my perspective because of one article only.

12 months ago

in Jason Calacanis Retires From Blogging, Listen Up Bloggers – This Means Something on sarahintampa
Well...he could just blog with another name if the pressure is too much for him. This is just re-entrenching what he says he hates: hating. He is hating bloggers who blog now as inauthentic.

1 year ago

in 1. Twitter on A Passion For 'Puters
How about a twittervangilist girl group? I am in...username "twot"

1 year ago

in How Many People Are Missing The Point of Twitter? on Social Times
I get value out of Twitter by having multiple accounts divided into my area of interest and subscribing/sharing with the friends that suit. For example I have one for work, one for my fashion interest, one for my significant other and so on...

Because of my demographic I have not been able to get many of my realworld friends on yet. I asked an academic associate yesterday to join and she said: "What is Twitter? What is Twot? (on of my personas).

It is, I think, a matter of time.

1 year ago

in Social Networking is a Full-Time Job on Social Times
I have started helping some of my less savvy peers manage their networks. It is perhaps yet another service than can be farmed out.

1 year ago

in Abhishek's Scribblepad - Jaiku on Comments
Hi!
I'd LOVE one. I am a journalist at Walrus Magazine.

1 year ago

in The Reblog Button on newcritics
Why don't you try soup.io It has what tumblr lacks.

1 year ago

in 2008/01/26/online-social-networking-does-it-make-you-happy/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
We all know which nations of the world are well developed and which are still in the early and middle stages of their own industrial revolutions. Is it too far fetched to think that the complex frameworks that are Web-based social networks play at least a small role in the exhaustion of happiness in the developed world?


OK:
1. Progress is a myth, and is certainly not linear and there is nothing more racist, classist then this solipsistic logic.

2.If 1. was too much and your default defenses are up then let me break it down: Assuming that the rest of the world are in earlier stages of what we have been through and we are like the happy masters waiting for them to play catch up and decide what Web-based social networks will mean for any/everyone or connect any of that to happiness then you are extremely dull and predictable.

1 year ago

in Beach Tumbld - Cool Tumblrs via joelaz (in no particular order) on David Beach
A database of the best (topically divided) tumblrs and souprs is NEEDED.
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