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Down for everyone or just me?

Useful little tool tells you if a site is… well, it’s kind of obvious, huh?

I Love to Ride My…

So, obviously I like the “is your new bicycle” meme. I liked the [Your Name] is your new bicycle a lot, and noticed that they were adding new ones pretty rapidly. I wrote a little script to pull the text from the website, and I think I’ve collected them all. They are [...]

My Life as a Hot Woman

My Life as a Hot Woman - Esquire’s A.J. Jacobs poses as his nanny to help her get dates. It’s an interesting portrayal of the interaction between men and women as played out in the online dating world.

Useless Account

Useless Account
Every direction you turn you’re forced to create yet another account. Most of the time it’s for one of those throw-away web startups created 10 times a day, but occasionaly it’s worth the effort. . . . When it’s that important, you can’t afford to drop the ball. With a useless account you can [...]

Social-networking sites pose ethical concerns for Journalists

Social-networking sites pose ethical concerns for Journalists - This is a topic of particular interest to me: the difference between the perception of the public/private nature of online information, and the reality of the availability of that information.