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• Cyberculture & the Net

  Twitter-mania

  04.04.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  While we’re on the subject of Internet phenomena, be sure to check out twitter.com. I’ve been twittering (tweeting?) for a little over two weeks now, but I was a little reluctant at first. Twitter is sort of a cross between a blog and an away message. Unlike a blog, you can only post 140 characters [...]

• Cyberculture & the Net

  Success! Sort of…

  10.31.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I am now officially cross posting from skyecade.net to my Vox account. Rejoice! Gone are the days of my empty Vox blog. I also wanted to cross post to a Livejournal blog, mostly because I really like the LJ community. Alas, the Livejournal Crossposter plug-in doesn’t work for me. I believe it has to do [...]

• Cyberculture & the Net

  My Myspace account

  10.29.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Okay, I sucked it up and made a myspace account this week. Check it out. I’m not gonna lie to ya, I felt really dirty doing it. Myspace could be the ugliest, cheesiest website on the net today, and yet, about an hour into creating my special little place, I actually started to have fun. [...]

• Gaming Culture

  Escape from the World of Warcrack

  10.19.06 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I’m one of the lucky ones. You see, I have a severe case of gaming A.D.D. Others, however, are not so lucky. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. I played World of Warcraft for over a year. Night after night I would play with my friends, exploring the vast lands of Azeroth with thousands [...]

• Cyberculture & the Net

  Amazon's Unbox service launched

  09.08.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  With Amazon’s Unbox service, you can purchase (or rent) movies and TV shows online and have them downloaded directly to your computer. Services like this will be the final blow to companies like Netflix and Blockbuster, not to mention the last surviving video store chains hanging on by a thread. These types of companies will [...]