Dear Facebook, For your front page, you should make the top blue bar and the side bars fixed so that just the newsfeed is scrollable. This would make it so much easier for people to navigate home, because it is really annoying to have to scroll back up again after spending a good five minutes … Continue reading
I am an interdisciplinary scholar. I am a minority. My cup is neither half full, nor half empty. I have multiple cups, they are all full to a certain degree, but never 100%. I don’t fit in, and always fit in. As a “broker” of social networks, I am a valuable asset to the society. … Continue reading
We need games that are like gummy bear vitamins. Games that you would play regardless of the beneficial effects. I’ve ranted about this a few times before (e.g., here and here), but I think so many social scientists are caught up with theory-testing that they forget the affordances of the media. I’ve seen games that … Continue reading
The OJR posted an article that is by far the stupidest argument I’ve ever seen on why journalism is bound to fail. The gist of the argument is that people never paid for news, thus people will not pay for news. I believe only the former is correct, agreeing with Rupert Murdoch that people will … Continue reading