“Facebook Labs”

phototagFacebook has just opened up a new section of the site called Facebook Prototypes, which is kind of like Google Labs for Facebook. I read about this on Mashable here. Then I went to test it out, and it almost lived up to its name as “the greatest thing since sliced bread.” I’d probably still rather have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but the new photo-tagging search feature is pretty sweet. Honestly, it’s features like this that show why the internet is so great. If you are looking for a photo of you and your friend and another friend, you can just find it in a second. That’s sweet.

Check out Facebook prototypes here, and let me know what you think of them.

Research Paper on Critical Reading and Satirical News

Last year I wrote a research paper about critical reading and satirical news. It deals with how too often as a society we fail to be critical of news because we are not active participants with media. It also goes on to examine the role that satirical news may play in keeping people informed and critical. If you want to read the paper online, here is the link. Also, here is the pdf version.

WordPress mobile

I am writing this current post from my couch on my phone using the open source wordpress app for iPhone. Here’s my review of the app: sweet.

It’s very easy to use, and it has a great and simple interface. You can manage multiple blogs in a very intuitive and classicaly simple wordpress setup. If you are looking to manage your blog on the go (for some reason, I don’t really know why) wordpress for iPhone is the way to go.

Google Wave Embedding

One of the cool things about Google Wave is that you will be able to embed waves into sites very easily and users can interact with the wave. I wrote a java robot that adds random quotes to the conversation, and here it is (if you have a wave developer account).

–I have temporarily taken it down… but it will be back up soon