Tagged as “twitter”
Jul 30, 2009

Everybody Alone Together Now: Social Networking and Spymaster

In late May, arcane tweets about buying weapons and assassinating people began showing up in my Twitter feed.  I asked what was up and received an invite to join a spy ring and play Spymaster.

Opinions are divided on how ‘social’ social networking is. This Twitter-based spy game presents an opportunity to look at why.

Apr 13, 2009

When Oatmeal Speaks

Go humans go.

Go humans go. This ad greeted me Monday morning as I exited the subway in DUMBO. It found me in Chinatown too. I was intrigued and a bit startled. I assumed it was part of a larger campaign, but this was the first I’d seen. Go humans go…to me, it had Martian undertones. And that Quaker man! He hasn’t changed much over the years.