Faster Forward Archive: Digital culture

Twitter adds another way to keep score: lists

Last Friday, Twitter rolled out a feature it had been testing for a few months: the ability to sort the people you follow on the popular micro-blogging site into lists, much like how Facebook lets you create multiple friends lists. My initial concept of lists was no more sophisticated than...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  November 5, 2009; 1:43 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
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Electronic voting lingers on

I voted earlier today, and I'd like to think that it was the last time I had to deal with an electronic voting machine. But knowing how long old software and hardware can stay in service in large bureaucracies, I fear that I'll have the same experience next year. And...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  November 3, 2009; 1:46 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (27)
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Google's recipe: to serve man?

The odds are pretty good that many of you found this article with the help of a large technology firm based on the West Coast. The odds also suggest that many of you will move on from this page to sites or services operated by the same company -- and...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  October 30, 2009; 11:07 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (13)
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Performance Art: Reviewing the Concert as It Happens

People attending rock concerts, especially arena- and stadium-size events, do weird things. They sing off key (or, more often, shout) as if they were alone in their cars. They jump up and down. They air-guitar and air-drum. They hold up the illuminated screens of their cellphones to call for an...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  September 30, 2009; 11:35 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (2)
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Disney Does Digital Books

The electronic-book business is starting to pick up some speed -- although it remains too soon to say it won't crash into a bridge abutment. This year has already seen e-book advances from Amazon, which shipped its Kindle 2 and Kindle DX* readers, and Barnes & Noble, which delivered a...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  September 29, 2009; 1:36 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (2)
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What I Uploaded for My Summer Vacation

Summer isn't over yet, but the summer-vacation season is. I know this because I'm no longer getting updates about your travels when I log into Facebook and Twitter. This isn't the first year that I've been able to follow friends' vacations online; tech-enthusiast types have been uploading pictures and composing...

By Rob Pegoraro  |  September 14, 2009; 11:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (7)
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Older Entries in This Category »

Latest 'Mindset List' Catalogues My Obsolescence, Rob Pegoraro , August 31, 2009
Facebook Soups Up Search, Rob Pegoraro , August 12, 2009
Yes, Twitter's Down and Facebook's Slow, Rob Pegoraro , August 6, 2009
Yahoo Redesigns Home Page; Does It Matter?, Rob Pegoraro , July 22, 2009
The Web Looks Back on Apollo 11 , Rob Pegoraro , July 20, 2009
Gmail, Other Google Apps Escape Beta Status, Rob Pegoraro , July 7, 2009
Facebook Adding Overexposure Options, Rob Pegoraro , June 29, 2009
New EFF Site Tracks Terms-Of-Service Changes, Rob Pegoraro , June 18, 2009
Get Your Facebook Usernames Here!, Rob Pegoraro , June 10, 2009
Google Gets Into the Public-Profile Business, Rob Pegoraro , April 23, 2009
Facebook Users Voting On New Terms of Service , Rob Pegoraro , April 22, 2009
April Foolin': The 2009 Edition, Rob Pegoraro , April 1, 2009
Microsoft Closes the Book on Encarta, Rob Pegoraro , March 31, 2009
Google To Deliver "More Interesting" Ads, Rob Pegoraro , March 16, 2009
Hear Me Out On "The Future Of The Book", Rob Pegoraro , March 10, 2009
Kvetching About Amazon's Kindle 2, Rob Pegoraro , February 26, 2009
Facebook Faces Privacy Fears, Rob Pegoraro , February 19, 2009
Amazon Unveils Kindle 2, Rob Pegoraro , February 9, 2009
Greatest Google Street View Hack Ever?, Rob Pegoraro , February 3, 2009
Pay To Watch Ads? Sure, Rob Pegoraro , February 2, 2009
How Will You Follow the Inauguration Online?, Rob Pegoraro , January 20, 2009
Win the Presidency, Lose Your E-Mail?, Rob Pegoraro , November 17, 2008
Memento 2.0: How Do Your Memories Live Online?, Rob Pegoraro , November 7, 2008
Internet Survives Election!, Rob Pegoraro , November 5, 2008
Grade Your Voting Interface, Rob Pegoraro , November 4, 2008
A Newspaper Loses the Paper, Rob Pegoraro , October 29, 2008
Google Settles Book-Scanning Lawsuit, Rob Pegoraro , October 28, 2008
Smarter Phones Leave No Escape From the Web , Rob Pegoraro , October 27, 2008
Blogged Down By Politics, Rob Pegoraro , October 21, 2008
Selling Computers Without Performance Anxiety?, Rob Pegoraro , October 20, 2008
Personal-Finance Tools For Stressful Times, Rob Pegoraro , September 22, 2008
Electronic Voting Follies Continue, Rob Pegoraro , September 12, 2008
News Flash: Not Every Story On the Web Is True, Rob Pegoraro , September 9, 2008
How Do You Read User Reviews?, Rob Pegoraro , September 8, 2008
What Makes an Event TV-Worthy or Web-Acceptable?, Rob Pegoraro , August 26, 2008
Your Boot-Up Cycle, Rob Pegoraro , August 8, 2008
Cameraphones and Concerts, Rob Pegoraro , July 28, 2008
Twitter Status Update, Rob Pegoraro , July 21, 2008
Social Skills For Address Books, Rob Pegoraro , July 10, 2008
Remembrance of Things Password, Rob Pegoraro , June 17, 2008
Who Needs "Push" E-Mail?, Rob Pegoraro , June 10, 2008
What's In a Username?, Rob Pegoraro , May 27, 2008
Blog Burnout, Rob Pegoraro , May 8, 2008
Status Consciousness, Rob Pegoraro , May 1, 2008
Mail Manners: A Question Of Quoting, Rob Pegoraro , April 9, 2008
April Foolin', Rob Pegoraro , April 1, 2008
Fandom 2.0: A Quiz, Rob Pegoraro , March 31, 2008
Facebook's New Levels of Friendship, Rob Pegoraro , March 21, 2008
Driven to Distraction, Rob Pegoraro , March 20, 2008
Farewell, Arthur C. Clarke, Rob Pegoraro , March 19, 2008
Methods of March Madness, Rob Pegoraro , March 17, 2008
News You Can Reuse, Rob Pegoraro , March 6, 2008
Formats That Fail You, Rob Pegoraro , February 28, 2008
Tuesday Tidbits: Audio and DRM, Rob Pegoraro , February 26, 2008
Best Dot-Com Super Bowl Ad?, Rob Pegoraro , February 4, 2008
Book 'Em!, Rob Pegoraro , December 6, 2007
Calling On the Run, Rob Pegoraro , October 29, 2007
Facebook Follow-up, Rob Pegoraro , October 12, 2007
A Dot-Com Dream Lives, Rob Pegoraro , October 9, 2007
Buzzword In Progress: "Bacn"?, Rob Pegoraro , August 21, 2007
Theresa Duncan Has Signed Off, Rob Pegoraro , August 1, 2007
Fashionably Plate, Rob Pegoraro , July 31, 2007
Art Imitating (Digital) Life, Rob Pegoraro , July 27, 2007
 
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