Category Archives: new media

“It’s Just a Platform”

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Whitney Leave a comment

Early on in my web geek history, I used to hear the phrase “it’s just a platform” dispensed frequently, especially when someone would ask: “What’s this thing good for, anyway?”  I was always frustrated by that kind of non-answer answer.  … Continue reading →

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Longevity of New Media

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Whitney Leave a comment

Someone on Twitter was talking about how to celebrate a big Tweet number- 25,000 tweets. Some people have chosen to try to raise money for their momentous tweet, but what struck me was what might have been said in those … Continue reading →

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Too Much Information

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Whitney 15 Comments

When is sharing your life online with others crossing over into  TMI  (Too Much Information) territory? Like it or not, we make judgments about people based on the integral of all we know about them.  The baseball player who bets … Continue reading →

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Searching Walled Gardens…

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Whitney 2 Comments

I’m still getting caught up on podcasts that got the better of me recently, but the one that caught my attention was one of NPR’s Planet Money podcast about Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, and an effort to make certain media … Continue reading →

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Interesting or Identifiable?

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Whitney 8 Comments

I’ve been reading Chuck Klosterman’s “Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs- A Low Culture Manifesto”.  It’s basically a collection of essays-each one different, but each one (so far) displaying Chuck’s great sense of humor, connecting what you would think are wildly … Continue reading →

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