Is the demise of the iconic blue bird the gateway to a dystyopian online world?
Twitter on Steriods: X Marks the Spot
July 29th, 2023 Comments Off on Twitter on Steriods: X Marks the Spot
Tags: Elon Musk · everything app · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Twitter
Chatbots: Conversations with the Almighty Algorithm
January 14th, 2017 Comments Off on Chatbots: Conversations with the Almighty Algorithm
A look at the hot tech trend of chatbots and why Baby Boomers are not happy about it.
Tags: algorithm · chatbot · metaphors · Michael Robert Dyet · Microsoft Tay · Twitter
Ode to Windows, Antisocial Media and Timelines That End in Rhyme
June 11th, 2016 Comments Off on Ode to Windows, Antisocial Media and Timelines That End in Rhyme
A digital immigrant’s Ode on no-choice software upgrades and the constantly evolving world of social media.
Tags: Facebook · Instagram · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Microsoft · Norton · Pinterest · Tumblr · Twitter · Windows 10
Digital Immortality: Avatars Populated by Facebook and Twitter
April 22nd, 2016 Comments Off on Digital Immortality: Avatars Populated by Facebook and Twitter
Pondering the prospect of “digital immortality”, how social media would be an enabler and questioning whether it is a time and place we really want to go.
Tags: artificial intelligence · avatars · digital immortality · Facebook · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Twitter
W4: The War of the Algorithms
March 1st, 2014 Comments Off on W4: The War of the Algorithms
A tongue-in-cheek look at what a simple bug in a social media application could unleash.
Tags: algorithm · bug · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · metaphor · Michael Dyet · social media · Twitter
Big Data: Walmart, Twitter and a Hummingbird’s Wings
May 10th, 2013 Comments Off on Big Data: Walmart, Twitter and a Hummingbird’s Wings
Trying to decode “big data” and getting a perabyte of a headache in the process.
Tags: big data · bit · byte · Hummingbird · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Twitter · Walmart
Social Media: The 200 Tentacled Octopus
September 22nd, 2012 Comments Off on Social Media: The 200 Tentacled Octopus
A brief foray into the social media phenomenon. What came first? The technology chicken or the social egg?
Tags: Facebook · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · social media · Twitter · Web 2.0
Facebook, Avatars and Fair-weather Friends
April 23rd, 2010 Comments Off on Facebook, Avatars and Fair-weather Friends
The implications that social networking may have on our friendships and where it could conceivably end up.
Tags: avatars · Facebook · friends · human relations · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · Twitter