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The Bean, the Brew and the Buzz: A Twitter Creative Writing Experiment.

June 16th, 2009 · by John · 8 Comments

Here’s #004 in the wild (explanation in post): A few months ago, after getting a feel for Twitter, I wanted to see what I could do with it as a writer. I began tweeting a story. I am still in the middle of what I’ve tentatively named, “The Bean, the Brew and the Buzz.” Here [...]

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Tags: Fiction · Social Web

Random Crazy Thoughts on Twitter and the Mongol Hordes.

May 30th, 2009 · by John · 10 Comments

Like many of you, I sometimes wonder what Genghis Khan would’ve thought of Twitter. At first I thought, he’d hate it, because it would be an early warning system. If you were a shepherd and saw the Mongols descending, you’d quickly tweet it before you were run down and disemboweled (the killer would probably use [...]

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Music Monday: Blogs Require Thick Skins

April 20th, 2009 · by xJane · 4 Comments

One of the things I love about MoF is that we’re a pretty small community and don’t attract a lot of trolls. This is not to say we never attract trolls, but when we do, it’s a surprise. There are many sites whose comments I simply don’t read because I don’t want to deal with [...]

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Tags: Art · Blogging · Classic · Creativity. · Dialog · Ethics · Humor · Meme · Music · Music Monday · Pop Culture · Satire · Social Web · Society · Video · Web 2.0

“Plan-free, baby!” Reflections on Amanda Fucking Palmer’s Secret Show in LA.

April 16th, 2009 · by John · 13 Comments

Think of your top five heroes (sorry, your mom’s my hero too but she doesn’t count)–people you admire from afar. Imagine that you wake up one workaday morning, and find that one of these people has invited you to a tea party. (albeit a tea party sans tea and finger sandwiches, in a warehouse in [...]

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Tags: Amanda Palmer · Art · Creativity. · Culture Jamming · Music · Personal · Photos · Social Hacking · Social Web

Sparks: Facebook/Social Networking

March 26th, 2009 · by xJane · 3 Comments

One of the many reasons I don’t post with my IRL name here (I won’t say “real”, since xJane is just as real in many ways) is because I am attempting to manage my image. In our internet age, I still find it to be very important to not ruffle feathers in a public way [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Culture Jamming · Current Events · Facebook · Feminism · Gender · Humor · Links · Media and Design · Obama · Personal · Photos · Politics · Pop Culture · Reason · Social Hacking · Social Web · Society · Spark · Web 2.0

Spark: XBox Live (Microsoft) Homophobic

February 25th, 2009 · by xJane · 6 Comments

not a huge surprise, I suppose… RT @pizzocalabro RT @consumerist: Identifying Yourself As A Lesbian Gets You Banned On XBOX Live : http://tinyurl.com/cc48g8

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Tags: Activism · Culture Jamming · Ethics · Gay Rights and Queer Issues · Gender · Media and Design · News · Politics · Pop Culture · Second Life · Social Hacking · Social Web · Society · Spark · Technology · Web 2.0

Recap of the FaceBook Terms of Service SNAFU.

February 18th, 2009 · by John · 5 Comments

1. Feb. 16, 2009: All your face are belong to us (even if your face quit): You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, [...]

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Tags: Facebook · Social Web · Technology · Web 2.0