Granted, this infographic, titled “So you’re MAD about something on the internet…” is good advice about commenting. But if everyone followed this advice, Blogtown would be way more boring. So read it and then forget it, okay?
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Internet Driving You “Crazy”? Call… THE INTERNET POLICE!
FINALLY! Someone has spoken out against the harsh realities of the internet, the damage it can do to one’s psyche, and is READY TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I sense a groundswell here, people! We DO NOT have to put up with people hacking into our accounts! We DO NOT have to listen to our […]
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Coolio Approves of this “Internet”—So You Might as Well Try It
Ever wonder how the internet got so popular? Well, obviously it had tremendous backing from Hollywood’s greatest celebrities, including Michael Jackson, Sandra Bullock, and even Coolio! For more information on this new technology of “cyber space,” check out this absolutely darling MTV News story from 1995 on the “information super highway”! Best quote: “Of course […]
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Today in Embarrassing Jet Pack Fails
I don’t like it when someone else has something I want. Therefore it fills me with nothing but the greatest joy to see this dude lose control of his water jet pack, which results in an embarrassing face plant. (Almost taking a reporter down with him is just the gravy on this delicious plate of […]
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Google+ Enables Gender Privacy
Until yesterday, the only information everyone could see on every Google+ profile were your name and your gender. Last night, Google+ Profiles Product Manager Frances Haugen posted this video announcing that soon Google users would be able to control their gender information: In a nutshell: If you decide to make your gender private, you will […]
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Facebook Gets Video, Google Gets Pretty
As This Is My Next reports, Facebook just announced that they’re adding Skype to their chat options, allowing you to video chat with your Facebook friends. (Facebook didn’t announce that they’re making it harder to export your friends’ information to, say, Google+. I’m sure that must’ve been some kind of an oversight.) I’m still enjoying […]
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Oh Hey There, SkaBoi36
GOOD has a funny article today called “The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle.” Those of us who came of age alongside AOL must contend with something even more incriminating than a lifelong Google profile: A trail of discarded online aliases, each a distillation of how we viewed ourselves and our place in the […]
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Google Introduces Their Social Network; What Do You Think?
Today, Google announced their new attempt at a social network, which they’re calling “The Google+ Project.” It’s not open to the public yet, but they issued a series of videos explaining the idea behind the whole thing. Here’s the first: Basically, it allows you to put your friends in different “circles” (coworkers, family, girl friends, […]
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Facebook Is Not Dying
The story about Facebook losing users has been whipping around for a couple days, and everybody’s all “Is this the end of Facebook?!?,” and what happens next?This isn’t the end of Facebook. Not even close. It’s tempting to treat Facebook as just the current incarnation of sites we’ve seen before: Friendster, MySpace, Geocities, Compuserve (which […]
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Watch Dan Win His “Special Achievement Award” Webby!
Co-Starring Ira Glass! (With a special five word message to Tracy Morgan!)
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Policing the Internet: Shutting Down Facial Recognition Technology, and Tennessee Bans Any Online Image That Might Cause “Emotional Distress”
Sometimes the internet can be scary: Today, I turned off Facebook’s new facial recognition technology, because I think that’s just fucking creepy. If you’d like to learn how to do that, this blog has a simple four-step explanation of how to turn it off. But that doesn’t mean you can just do things like this: […]
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Alamo Drafthouse Makes Texter :(
They have a rule at Austin’s beloved, revered Alamo Drafthouse: Turn off your fucking phone. It’s a rule that should be adopted by theaters everywhere, and you know what else should be adopted by theaters everywhere? The Alamo’s PSAs, which show before each movie and tell people to, y’know… turn off their fucking phones. Like […]