http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated. Wed, 14 May 2008 01:49:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here Mashable, take my vagina. I'm obviously not using it right. According to Mashable, the In Touch of the social networking scene (bold and uppity upstart with a handsome Twitterface), I am not actually a woman. On Mother’s Day Mashable churned out another one of their highly-re-bloggable social networking list of ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/05/12/mashable-radical-hysterectomy/ Want to scan and analyze the chatter of millions of conversations? Have an idea for a story, a song, a research paper, or are you a voyeur like me? Go to Tweetscan. Pick a word. Enter the word. Presto. You can even subscribe to the search and have it in your ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/05/06/want-social-search-action/ The composition of my soul has been cleaved in two: one half social-net savant; the other A-list celebrity god-talker seeking divine counsel through a pop-cult telekinesis.The composition of my soul has been cleaved in two: One half social-net savant; the other A-list celebrity god-talker seeking divine counsel through a pop-cult ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/05/05/the-healing-power-of-celebrity-democracy/ Am I a just a myopic textard? A horsegeek of the updated apocalypse? From Lifehacker comments: Everyone join in and repeat after me... Social Networking Will Destroy the World. Yes, you heard me correctly. Social Networking is the glue that binds retarded anti-socialites together; without it, they would need to ACTUALLY interact with real ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/30/am-i-catastrophic/ Are you sick to death of hearing about Twitter and not knowing what it is? Of feeling behind the times? Here is a step-by-step Twitter video instruction guide presented by a pioneer lady. In just a few minutes you can be part of the modern era! Twitter for Beginners: So Simple A ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/28/a-pioneer-explains-twitter/ Articles about tech blogging and death have been bubbling through the tech lifestream over the past few weeks. Triggered by the passing of two prominent bloggers that may or may not be blog-stress related, the feeing that the news never stops has driven many tech bloggers (like Michael Arrington of Techcrunch) ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/25/tech-blogging-the-19th-century/ Ebay helped me sell my beloved Remington Steele car to a man who lived many hours away in a town named Swastika. The swastika originally comes from ancient India but of course that’s not the first thing that came to my mind. I immediately Twittered and Twitpic’d the event and ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/22/i-sold-my-baby-to-the-man-from-swastika/ Pierre Maraval, as part of June 2008's Luminato/L’Oréal arts festival, took my portrait this morning. He calls his latest project Toronto’s Mille Femmes and describes it as a cultural landscape of women who “enrich” Toronto. And, luckily for Mr. Maraval, in our culture we all are expected to wear ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/17/testifying-at-loreal/ On my way to LAX I passed a Pollo Loco that was no ordinary fried chicken extravaganza. It was a warning. Leaving Los Angeles is confusing. Like Twitter, it holds so much promise. As soon as I land and see would-be The Hills cast members I am comforted. Surely being proximal ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/15/the-american-dream/ LOS ANGELES—Do fashion and geek mix? Well at the Techcrunch/Popsugar Meetup they did. It all happened April 10 inside the grotesque Hollywoodland club Vanguard—complete with flocked wallpaper and Perry Ferrell Macintosh Dj-ing. Was it fun? It was weird. In some ways glorious. Beautiful people in head-to-toe Kitson and Abbot Kinney lined ... http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/04/14/geek-hollywood-style/