Caine’s Arcade: Another Story About the Power Social Media
I first heard about Caine’s Arcade on Tuesday morning when I saw a friend post on Facebook and another on Twitter. I watched the 10-minute film during lunch and enjoyed the well-made short documentary about a 9-year-old boy in East LA who made an entire arcade out of used auto parts boxes and other materials from … Read more
Is Twitter a True Social “Network”?
I heard an interesting piece on Marketplace Radio on NPR this week – Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal interviewed Steven Dubner, author of the Freakonomics concept. During the broadcast, they proposed that Twitter is not a social network. Essentially, Kai was ribbing Steven for their lack of reciprocity: specifically, @freakonomics has nearly 275,000 followers and, at … Read more
