Nothing has made me quite as self-conscious about tweeting as the knowledge that those tweets will be recorded for all of time within the Library of Congress. But I do actually believe in the logic behind the decision.
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History: 140 Characters At A Time
by John Lacey on April 16, 2010
Hide Annoying Facebook Applications In Your News Feed
by John Lacey on January 31, 2010
I’ve often griped about Facebook. But the truth is once you deny access to 90% of the Facebook applications and hide anything ending with ‘Ville’ from your news feed, it gets back to being friends sharing thoughts and images with each other. And that is something I can appreciate.
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Are Online Friends “Real Friends”?
by John Lacey on June 25, 2009
I understand the desire to differentiate between those relationships in daily life and those that exist online. I understand that there are different dimensions and dynamics to both. What I struggle with though is the implication that friendships formed online are in some way inferior, trivial or ‘unreal.’
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The Shitty First Draft and Social Media
by John Lacey on June 3, 2009
So for the last week or so I’ve been eagerly reading Anne Lamont’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. What a beautiful book this is!
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