musings of a mediabot

Archive for October 2008

OMG IM is at work

Posted by: minikristen on: October 31, 2008

Instant messaging exploded as hype – you either got it or you didn’t.  The trend instantly became a part of the global culture, dramatically changing the way (and how quickly) people communicated with each other.  IM has given birth to a new language, a sort of SMS “street” slang, that only the most IM-adept could understand.  Now, IM [...]

Ga-ga over google

Posted by: minikristen on: October 21, 2008

I seem to keep jumping on, then jumping off this digital culture bandwagon.  I can’t keep still.
Sometimes I can’t get enough of the ride, the technological turns that make me Oooh and Aaahhh, and then other times, I feel so sickened by another ridiculous gadget that’s cluttering my digital head, that I want to say [...]

Blogging by one, for all

Posted by: minikristen on: October 7, 2008

I must have been a little grumpy in my last post about Scoble and Israel.  By the time I finished their book Naked Conversations, I was applauding blogs and their potential to unite this very fragmented political world.  OK, maybe that’s a little hyperbolic (and a big No-No according to the authors when it comes [...]