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Thumbs Down to Facebook Dislike Button

On Tuesday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter describing some upcoming changes to Facebook.
The changes involve updated privacy settings and the discontinuation of regional networks (read the open letter here). But judging by the comments, it’s not privacy settings that most users care about.
What the users really want is a dislike button.
This past [...]

December 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: higher education | Comments (6)

Blogs in the Age of Twitter

What happens to a blog when its creator moves on down the road to Twitter?
In a time of such interesting and important issues — energy policy, overseas reform movements, Project Runway leaving Bravo for Lifetime — this is hardly the most earth-shattering of questions. But as the increasingly scattershot nature of my blog updates suggests, [...]

June 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: administrivia | Comments (4)

Capsule Movie Reviews

Up in the Air
Pittsford Plaza 01.01.10
Fantastic. So simple, so small, but kinda perfect. And very on point with the current economic situation.

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Pittsford Plaza
The day a filmmaker with an actual story to tell ("unobtanium?!" hilarious.) gets his or hands and this amazing visual technology, that will be something.

An Education
The Little 11.24.09
Sally Sparrow from Dr. Who is all-grown up! You do feel as if you are watching a star in the making in Carey Mulligan.

Pirate Radio
The Little 11.13.09
Funny in bits (best bit: Bill Nighy dancing) but not funny as a whole. A bit episodic, with a ridiculous ending.

A Serious Man
The Little 11.07.09
The Coen brothers have made another divisive film: I really like it; Mr. Goddess hated it. I thought it was deeply funny and deeply ... deep.

Capitalism: A Love Story
The Little 10.05.09
Unlike other Michael Moore docs, this was more of a piece of investigative journalism than a political screed. Moore shines his light on for-profit prisons, the appallingly low salaries of airline pilots, and the "dead peasant" insurance policies companies take out on their own employees -- all in the name of making a profit out of anything.

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