Digital Age
Your Grandchildren Might Hate Facebook and Twitter
Last week, I took my closest friend Amy out to dinner for her birthday. As we settled into a table at a lovely Italian restaurant, […]
How Twitter Accidentally Killed JoePa Too Soon
Joe Paterno has died. If you were on the Internet, you were probably pretty angry about it for one reason or another. On Saturday, Penn […]
Instagram Turns Your Life From Dull to Dashing
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, in which case you don’t get a reliable WiFi connection, you’ve probably heard of Instagram. It’s one of […]
College Students Cope Without Wikipedia
My freshman students at Drexel, charged with analyzing a sustainability campaign, were sharing their proposed topics in class this past Tuesday. We worked our way […]
Wikipedia Goes Dark to Protest SOPA
It must have been 1995, because I remember getting sick of Michael Jordan real quick after his return to the Chicago Bulls. We had just […]
The Internet Takes a Day Off in Protest
The Internet is Blacked Out. Craigslist, Wikipedia, Reddit, and even the Google logo are blacked out today to raise awareness of the SOPA bill that […]
Urban Dictionary Is Ruining the English Language
We were sitting around at my in-laws’ house last night, celebrating my mother-in-law’s birthday (I’ll refrain from giving a number) by watching the Giants clobber […]
The Steve Jobs Bio Will Not Save the World
Our national obsession with Steve Jobs officially jumped the shark when that noted captain of industry, Kanye West, unleashed another Twitter barrage this month. Character […]
The Philly Twitteralysis
The old saying goes, “You are what you eat.” Well, that’s just stupid. (I am so not the lamb gyro with lettuce, tomato and hot […]
The iPad 7 Is Coming!
Psst! Have you heard? About the new iPad? No, not iPad 3. Those rumors are so old, they might as well be fact. iPad 4? […]
More Cute Polar Bear Cubs? Nooooo!
It seems like only yesterday when I was obsessed with a tiny polar bear cub named Knut (pronounced kuh-noot). But it was 2006 and I […]
Doctors Whine About iPads
A recent article on Shots, NPR’s health blog, bemoaned the lack of tablets in American hospitals. It would be quite costly to convert current medical […]
Memo to Local Media: Stop Live-Tweeting the Sandusky Trial
John Bolaris tweets a lot. Since joining Twitter on June 30, Bolaris has tweeted almost 5,300 times, or a little more than 30 times a […]
Dexter Is Killing Joan Didion
It used to be, back when we all read books, that right about now, with the Three Wise Men lumbering into our line of vision, […]
Siri’s Not Pro-Life. She’s Just a Crappy Doctor
You guys know Siri, right? She’s the lady who lives inside the new iPhones and can tell you anything you want to know. Well, sort […]