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How Facebook’s Timeline will change everything.

September 22 Comments Off on How Facebook’s Timeline will change everything. Category: Feed, HackText

Facebook’s new feature will change the way we think about social media content because it introduces permanence to our digital lives. Since the beginning of the social media revolution, the structure of the sites we use inspires a fire-and-forget philosophy towards creating content. This is especially true on Twitter, where you can’t even reach past a week into your […]

Are you ready to enter the Panopticon?

September 21 Comments Off on Are you ready to enter the Panopticon? Category: Feed, HackText

When you get right down to it, Privacy is a poor hack. Right now, the privacy controls are out of our hands. Though we may think that editing our Facebook feed and hiding behind fake e-mails protect us, the truth is anything but. A few years ago, I was able to find my grandmother’s social […]

DiigNO: Don’t use Diigo or The problem with freemium.

September 19 Comments Off on DiigNO: Don’t use Diigo or The problem with freemium. Category: Feed, HackText

There are a lot of tools on the internet, some are great, some not so much. Diigo is a tools you should stay away from. It seems like whatever you create on the service may disappear. A while back, everyone thought that Yahoo was going to shut down Delicious and went out to find alternative web-bookmarking […]
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Emerson’s ‘In the Cut’ is a mini-masterclass in video editing. Watch it.

September 16 Comments Off on Emerson’s ‘In the Cut’ is a mini-masterclass in video editing. Watch it. Category: Feed, HackText

Every media platform has its own language. For video part of that is the art of editing. Jim Emerson is breaking down editing technique and theory in exquisite detail in his series on Press Play. It’s well worth the watch. When working to tell stories over multiple mediums, it’s important to create content to keep the strengths, traditions […]
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