“I just think if we look already, we’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text. We’re seeing a massive increase, as I’ve said, on both pictures and video. If I was having a bet, I would say: video, video, video.”
“[Fred] Caruso, who was openly gay, wrote or produced – and often directed — several LGBT-themed films, including Go Go Crazy and A Four Letter Word, and he produced the off-Broadway news spoof hit Newsical. But [he] was best known for The Big Gay Musical, a film which follows two gay actors starring in a … Continue reading “Creator Of ‘The Big Gay Musical,’ 41, Commits Suicide, Leaves Note On Facebook”
Willa Paskin: “Where Vine has fetishized brevity and Snapchat ephemerality, Facebook Live encourages video-creators to go long, more than five minutes and up to 90, and caches its videos. … The formal innovations of Facebook Live are length and durability, along with the ‘live’ aspect. And yet so far very few Facebook Live videos have … Continue reading “Why So Many Facebook Live Videos Are So Bad – A TV Critic Explains”
The young men, all between 19 and 21 and members of a satirical group called Awlad al-Shawarea (“Children of the Streets”), “have been accused of ‘inciting anti-government protests’ and ‘insulting state institutions.’”
“What has the Facebook app and site become, if not a social network? The answer is rather obvious when you watch how people use it. It has become a personalized portal to the online world.”
“It’s tough to be creative every day when your life is fundamentally ordinary. It’s tiring. And, since most writers toil in relative isolation, it’s anything but social.”
Rule 34 notwithstanding, “it’s unlikely that the site will devolve into a Chatroulette-style exhibitionist’s paradise anytime soon, partly because its controversial ‘real names’ policy makes it hard for most to remain anonymous. Far more troublesome for Facebook will be … matters of intellectual property.”
Facebook is also suspending anyone who shares the original image. “Ironically, Liddle’s original speech notes: ‘Aboriginal women are not acceptable. Older women aren’t acceptable, particularly if their breasts are pendulous rather than perky. Women being semi-naked for the purpose of taking part in women’s culture are not acceptable. If they are going to be semi-naked, … Continue reading “Facebook Keeps On (Stupidly, And Ironically) Suspending This Writer”
“In a statement to the museum, Facebook explained the painting was taken down for ‘containing excessive amounts of skin or suggestive content.’ On Friday, the museum uploaded the colorful image – which features a woman suggestively licking an ice cream cone — to its Facebook page with the following message … “
“It tries to solve a problem it doesn’t understand, but it doesn’t need to understand the problem because it already knows the solution. … When Zuckerberg or Andreessen face criticism, they argue that their critics are being elitist and inhumane – after all, who could be against helping India develop? The rhetoric is rich with … Continue reading “Was Facebook’s Free Basics Program In India A Good Deed Or Colonialism Redux?”
