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Pintrest Courtesy / Best Practices

Let’s begin the stream of thoughts rant: Something I’ve noticed on pintrest – Mass Uploads of pins. The problems: Mass uploads of pins bombards people’s front page feed with your stuff (usually junk, since you’re mass uploading. Learn to improve your editing eye) Why are you mass uploading anyway? Is there a reason? (planning, you’re on a site where you happen to love everything) Do you just post a couple and link to the site or do you post everything you see that you like? Pintrest is for yourself as much as... Read The Rest →

Matthew Broderick’s Day Off.

The relationship between the entertainment industry and the public is a funny one. When a hit movie is universally praised, destined to become an icon of its generation, the people during that time—young and old—feel a sense of entitlement. It becomes a bragging right for some and a symbol for others. Any tampering with this spectacle is condemned, like defiling a grave. Hollywood, meanwhile, just enjoyed the revenue of the latest box office smash before moving onto the next one to cash in on. That condemnation was everywhere on the... Read The Rest →

The Interest of Pinterest.

One of the most efficient and convenient advances in the online world is the ability to store information in all kinds of mediums—from imgur and Photobucket to email and word documents. The virtual bulliten board Pinterest joins ranks with its formula of allowing its users to grab, or “pin,” anything from anywhere on the web that they like and store it. As described on their “about” page, their goal is “to connect everyone in the world through the ‘things’ they find interesting.” Users pin things such as recipe ideas, clothing,... Read The Rest →

SOPA Blackout

On Jan. 18, the English version of Wikipedia will go down for 24-hours to protest the U.S. anti-piracy laws – Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). Here’s everything you need to know to prepare for tomorrow’s Internet blackout. Wikimedia Foundation executive director Sue Gardner announced to join in the Internet blackout day started by link-sharing site Reddit on Jan. 16. The decision to shutdown was decided by the greater community that writes, edits and posts articles. “Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1,800... Read The Rest →

MEME – Art/Psychology of the the Z-Gen

One of my favorite things about the internet is that it can explain generations much clearer than anything before. A lot of sub-cultures were probably lost and went unrecognized before the internet. You have to really see the internet for what it is- a huge audit of art, taste, writing,discussions and emotions. Thus…memes. There are certain things that exist on the internet that if you don’t know about, you don’t really understand a large part of people today; memes is one of them. Do you recognize any of these images... Read The Rest →

Glitch Art/Design

(Click play to listen while reading/viewing article. Trust me.) Hyper assiduous attention to microscopic detail leads to acute schizophrenia; First distinguished by a twitch in the left eye, followed soon by the sensation that space aliens will arrive momentarily to take you “home.” That’s how I was taught to understand glitch design. One of my favorite things about technology is how it displays errors. Warhol attempted to make perfect, machine-like art but the errors are what gave it style. Errors and mistakes are an artist’s true style. Everyone makes mistakes, which are probably... Read The Rest →

Advancing SEO: Google Search Plus Your World

  As you probably know by now, Google struck another blow the other day in the social wars with the launch of Search Plus Your World, their enhanced algorithm for personalization in your SERPs. Google Search plus Your World is going to make it a little more complex for those stock SEO companies. It’s not enough anymore  (and hasn’t been for a while) to simply put a ton of key words on your website and submit your site to search engines. You need to think start thinking custom. Presence away... Read The Rest →