Tag: twitter
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Social media is too tidy

Following up on last month’s post about Twitter . . . The great hope and hype of the Internet is that it is the new frontier. Cyberspace was supposed to be Columbus’s India and California’s gold, a realm both beyond and inside the atmosphere. We never really explored the Internet The great letdown is that the social…
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Brief thoughts on Twitter, which everyone always talks about

The 1990s were a time when one could or could not be “into” computers. I was not particularly. I liked reading, writing, playing piano, playing sports, and hanging out with my friends. Computers made many of these things better, so I used them. As the Internet and the web evolved, they revealed a mysterious new…
