A tongue-in-cheek look at what a simple bug in a social media application could unleash.
W4: The War of the Algorithms
March 1st, 2014 Comments Off on W4: The War of the Algorithms
Tags: algorithm · bug · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · metaphor · Michael Dyet · social media · Twitter
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: 400 Million Threads in the Web of Life
September 26th, 2010 Comments Off on FACEBOOK: 400 Million Threads in the Web of Life
A brief foray into the Facebook phenomenon and a caution about the direction it may be taking us in.
Tags: connecting · Facebook · metaphor · Michael Robert Dyet · web of life
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