Connective Visions

The end of February is giving rise to a kind of media, climatic, and geographical mass effect. The 16th day of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics came on the heels of another Northeast U.S. snowstorm (the third of the month, but in Philadelphia, happily, the least bothersome) and on the day of the seventh-largest earthquake in [...]

Thanks to Facebook, I have found myself tonight not only blogging on the Norwegian Olympic curling team but waiting with bated breath for an AP scoop related to them. Some might say that Facebook has much to answer for. A large number of fans on Facebook have been saying so tonight. At roughly 0300 GMT, [...]

In an excellent bit of questioning, a friend remarked to me that most of my Facebook postings seemed to be about “imaginary farm animals” and professed that she didn’t understand the penchant of so many for “electronic farming.” A day later, four more friends joined the Facebook group “I dont care about your farm, or [...]