The Internet Isn’t Eating Your Family Values

by Collin Van Uden on January 19th, 2011

“But but but,” I hear you protest, “what about the children? They’re learning bad things online!” Yes and they used to hang out on street corners and learn bad things there too. Now that we’re so scared of one another in real-life that we won’t pop next door for a cup of sugar in case the [...]

Tags: , , Category: Social, Tech

You, Me, Us, This.

by Collin Van Uden on January 10th, 2011

RT @tealou: New Blog Post on tealou.com.au: On “negativity” and “overshare”. http://bit.ly/ibm5eb
Source

Go read that first. My tripe could easily put you off, so don’t go wasting time on my rot if yours is scarce.

Righto, done? Good stuff, now, as I was saying..

I have this weird aesthetic, and get a brain-nourishing sense of satisfaction at [...]

Tags: , , Category: Life, Observations, Social

Facebook’s world

by Collin Van Uden on January 9th, 2011

It’s quite [...]

Tags: , , Category: Social, Tech

Etymological Rabbit Holes FTW

by Collin Van Uden on January 8th, 2011

There’s a slight “not safe for work” warning attached to this. Unless you’re a gyneacologist I suppose.

Ten points if you can figure out how this is related to the concept of Liminality, and (believe it or not) [...]

Tags: , , , , Category: Social, Words

Facebook Beachbabe scam and the best anti-phishing advice you'll ever get

by Collin Van Uden on May 23rd, 2010

Cool, I got the current round of Facebook spam on my wall. It’s cool, because now I get to show you folk the one simple thing you can do that will protect you from phishing attacks more than any anti-virus software you’ll ever get.

It uses legacy technology known as ‘eyeballs’ and really isn’t that complicated.

But first [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , Category: Social, Tech

Reclaim your facebook status feed

by Collin Van Uden on February 13th, 2010

Apparently, Facebook have decided we have too much information in our lives, and have decided the best way to deal with this is to limit the friends that show on our news feeds to 250. How they do this remains a mystery, no doubt involving complicated algorithms, technical jargon, and possible a HUGE wall and multi-fire [...]

Tags: , , , , Category: How To..., Social

Aussies trendless in Twitter

by Collin Van Uden on February 1st, 2010

Well, I’m only a few days behind Mashable on this one, so I thought I’d post it out anyway

Twitter has enabled local trends for all Twitter accounts but Australia is noticeably missing from the list of countries.

Local trends for the globe, but Oz misses out so far..

Now, I didn’t expect humble little Ballarat to appear [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , Category: Social, Tech