Quotablestag:www.zephoria.org,2010:/quotes//112010-01-30T14:45:41ZMovable Type 3.34celebrity and social mediatag:www.zephoria.org,2010:/quotes//11.53532010-01-30T14:43:55Z2010-01-30T14:45:41Z"It can be hard to connect with people when you're a queen... My virtual self can get closer to people than my physical self... Social media has opened a window into my life." -- Queen Rania at Le Web 2009...zephoria
-- Queen Rania at Le Web 2009]]>
what's social?tag:www.zephoria.org,2009:/quotes//11.53252009-07-26T16:17:50Z2009-07-26T16:19:04Z"Facebook is so endlessly social and inclusive it sometimes reminds me of one of those mega-nightclubs from the late ’80s (Palladium, the Limelight, etc.), only without the music, the alcohol, the drugs, the lights, the sweat, or — it must...zephoria
Lucinda Rosenfeld]]>
deceiving childrentag:www.zephoria.org,2009:/quotes//11.53232009-07-24T04:09:21Z2009-07-24T04:10:03ZAdults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. - Elias Canetti...zephoria
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. - Elias Canetti ]]>
Facebook as robottag:www.zephoria.org,2009:/quotes//11.52922009-01-23T04:32:16Z2009-01-23T04:33:02Z"i think the facebook is a chilly new robot and it makes having friends so easy that friendship hardly feels sincere. i'm trying to cut down." -- Mark M....zephoria
"i think the facebook is a chilly new robot and it makes having friends so easy that friendship hardly feels sincere. i'm trying to cut down." -- Mark M.
an intellectualtag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52672008-09-14T05:51:06Z2008-09-14T05:52:53Z"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." -- Aldous Huxley...zephoria
-- Aldous Huxley]]>
political identitytag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52462008-07-07T19:41:11Z2008-07-07T19:43:53Z"I'm the barium of the political colon" -- Stephen Colbert (Emily Lazar, producer of The Colbert Report heard Stephen refer to him as such. This was repeated by Walter Isaacson at Aspen Institute Ideas Festival.)...zephoria
(Emily Lazar, producer of The Colbert Report heard Stephen refer to him as such. This was repeated by Walter Isaacson at Aspen Institute Ideas Festival.)]]>
life's purposetag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52172008-03-15T21:32:45Z2008-03-15T21:33:51Z"People spend their work years trying to be successful and their retirement years trying to be relevant." -- director of philanthropy, REI...zephoria
-- director of philanthropy, REI]]>
companies as toddlerstag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52112008-03-04T07:11:08Z2008-03-04T07:12:21Z"Companies aren't charities. They're businesses. It doesn't matter why they're offering an unacceptable product -- all that matters is that the product is unacceptable. Companies aren't five-year-olds bringing their fingerpaintings home from kindergarten. We don't have to put on a...zephoria
-- Cory Doctorow]]>
approach to kids' safetytag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52322008-02-21T00:08:06Z2008-04-21T00:08:55Z"We need to think of our kids less as victims and more as participants." -- Anne Collier...zephoria
-- Anne Collier]]>
language parsingtag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52032008-02-17T05:27:58Z2008-02-17T05:28:57Z"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a...zephoria
-- languagehat (Tx Hannah)]]>
theory vs. practicetag:www.zephoria.org,2008:/quotes//11.52022008-02-17T00:21:38Z2008-02-17T00:23:15Z"They didn't care that they'd seen it work in practice because they already knew it couldn't work in theory." -- Clay Shirky at 2007 Supernova...zephoria
-- Clay Shirky at 2007 Supernova]]>
"identity crash"tag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51432007-10-01T07:35:20Z2007-10-01T07:38:02Z"Identity crash: Sudden and catastrophic collapse of an individual's ability to keep all the threads of his or her online identity straight when the individual joins one too many social networks. Example: I was ok keeping up with Facebook, Flickr,...zephoria
I was ok keeping up with Facebook, Flickr, and Myspace, but after throwing lawlink, Last.fm, and Orkut into the mix, I had a total identity crash and forgot what went where."
-- Urban Dictionary (tx Becky)]]>
"dictionary dancing"tag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51382007-09-17T22:34:23Z2007-09-17T22:36:01Z"Won for one, too for two, free for three, for for four, hive for five... and so on... This is what they called 'dictionary dancing'." -- Fiona Romeo, explaining the battle between young users and Club Penguin over the ban...zephoria
-- Fiona Romeo, explaining the battle between young users and Club Penguin over the ban of numbers]]>
friendship on SNStag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51372007-09-15T05:21:19Z2007-10-01T07:37:40ZThere's some deep part of your brain that instinctively wants to make connections with other human beings. Even when you do something as superficial as click a button on a website to confirm that somebody you've already known for ten...zephoria
-- Charles Miller, "On Social Networks" (Sept 14, 2007)]]>
definition of lulworthtag:www.zephoria.org,2007:/quotes//11.51362007-09-14T09:13:44Z2007-09-14T09:16:47Z"LULWORTH (n.) - Measure of conversation. A lulworth defines the amount of the length, loudness and embarrassment of a statement you make when everyone else in the room unaccountably stops talking at the same time." -- Douglas Adams and John...zephoria
-- Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, The Meaning of Liff (tx to confused of calcutta)]]>