Should Facebook Censor Nude Art? (How Can It Not?)
Last week Facebook removed an image of Gerhard Richter’s “Ema,” a misted view of a nude woman, on the page of the Pompidou Center…
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Why Young Japanese Are (Finally) Switching Over To Facebook
“Facebook’s insistence on using a real identity and openness is certainly catching on, especially among those who have become weary of unsolicited messages from people they don’t know on [locally developed] sites like Mixi,” which forbids sharing of any personal information.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: Now We’re All Artists And Writers
“Writers and artists have always been self-conscious consumers and filterers of experience, saving it and using it for artistic purposes later on. Perhaps Facebook and Twitter and Instagram incline more and more of us to respond to our experiences as only artists once did – perhaps in that sense the optimistic view that all of … Continue reading “Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: Now We’re All Artists And Writers”
Sci-Fi Author Uses Facebook To Pursue Man Who Pirated His Book
“Wizard hero Richard Rahl smites wrongdoers with his Sword of Truth. His creator, the bestselling fantasy author Terry Goodkind, turned to Facebook to name and shame a fan who pirated a digital version of his latest novel, The First Confessor.”
Rousseau: An Ideal Philosopher For The Facebook Generation
“Jean-Jacques was also, in his way, the philosophical progenitor of Facebook, of the notion that we should live our lives in the open, hiding nothing, for concealment is both the symptom and the cause of insincerity, which was one of J-J’s bugbears.”
Putting An Author’s Diaries Up For Auction – Online, Using Facebook To Promote The Sale
Music critic Tim Page brought author Dawn Powell’s books back into print through his critical attention. Now he intends to sell her diaries online to help pay for his sons’ college educations. One rare books dealer: “What he’s doing is highly unusual, and it seems to me based on an unrealistic hope that maybe he … Continue reading “Putting An Author’s Diaries Up For Auction – Online, Using Facebook To Promote The Sale”
Think Facebook Is Distracting? Try Theatre
“For Rousseau, theater was little more than an app of a broken society, and it was the world that had gone wrong. … Staged productions representing life, he believed, distracted us from one another, and from ourselves. Theater replaces lived experience with vicarious experience and condemned participants to wander the sea of the non-present.”
What We Post (Or Don’t) On Facebook Reveals Our Personality Type
And it will make us targets for specific kinds of advertising – if only the scientists can agree what our posts mean.
Secret To Facebook Success Lies In Old-School Advertising
“That it should be news that advertisers should follow time-tested principles when advertising in newfangled media highlights how confusing social media has been for many marketers.”
Why Is Facebook So Successful? It’s The Photos
“There are two main reasons why Facebook is a dominant Internet company. One, it is the first cross-platform and truly global identity provider. Second, it is the most constantly updated photo album on the planet. That is why photos are Facebook’s lifeblood.”