Should Facebook be regulated?

Facebook sets its own standards for content and community apart from other government guidelines for violence and obscenity. Should Facebook be regulated?

Social media sewage … and hope

I’ve started and trashed this article at least six times. As you will see, I have my reasons to be conflicted about publishing it. Yet I can’t deny this gnawing feeling of disenchantment about the social web that seems to be also reflected in so many other blog posts I have read recently. I am […]

Does Amanda Chapel matter?

   The mysterious, mean-spirited, self-proclaimed “strumpette” Amanda Chapel is the most divisive personality in the social media movement.  She relentlessly shoots poison darts at nearly every voice of authority on the social web.  It’s typical for her to characterize many of her A-List blogger targets as: “Baby babble” “Full-on non-stop shameless surreptitious sleaze” “The cacophony of dopes” “Sacs de douche” […]