I’ve been dabbling in the world of Pinterest. If you don’t know, Pinterest is like an online bulletin board. When you find things you like on the web (mainly pictures and videos), you pin them to one of your boards. Like other social media tools, you can follow friends and…  [more]

A recent study by Facebook shows that its users are still in contact with those they disagree with! This is somewhat surprising news, because many have been concerned that social networking would lead to people isolating themselves in ideologically self-reinforcing communities, cut off from intelligent disagreement. This could lead to…  [more]

By now you’ve heard about yesterday's blackout. Some of the biggest websites on the Internet blacked themselves out (to varying degrees) to raise awareness about the SOPA and PIPA bills being debated in Congress. These bills seem, at face value, to protect intellectual property by granting the government sweeping powers…  [more]

Who are you? On the Internet, that's been a complicated question for a long time. Back in the Jurassic era of the Web, people signed on to AOL with screen names like "cubsfan72," "dancerdoreen" and "pastorbob." Many kept that habit when they signed up for Yahoo mail and Gmail, and…  [more]

I have at least two loves in common with Alec Baldwin: a love for the smartly kooky television comedy "30 Rock," in which he stars, and a love for the Scrabble-like smartphone game Words with Friends. He may be a wee more …  passionate about the multiplayer word game than…  [more]