Facebook stops me from tagging myself in my own photographs—here’s a possible solution

19.12.2011/06.26

I seem to be putting the major news events on my Facebook as public posts these days, such as the passing of Kim Jong Il or the Murdoch Press phone-tapping scandal. Since Facebook introduced public sharing in August, I’m having a rethink about what each outlet means. What is this blog for? What is my […]

The minutiæ of 2011

18.12.2011/02.20

As some of you know, I have been using Tumblr since 2007, and when Vox died (at least for me) in 2009, I began using Tumblr more. It was good to record brief thoughts of little consequence, but as I hunted through the archive for 2011, I realized it was quite a good way to […]

Facebook Timeline gets rolled out: here come the complaints

16.12.2011/08.26

Above: My Facebook Timeline, as it appeared in October. As more of the planet gets on to Facebook Timeline, it’s been interesting to watch reactions. When Facebook went to a new layout three years ago, plenty of people—myself included—went to an anti-new Facebook group. Most were there because they didn’t like change, threatened to […]

RIP Facebook lists: you can no longer select them in privacy settings

10.12.2011/05.12

P.P.PS.: As of December 21, 9.29 GMT, Facebook has ﬁxed the bug.—JY P.PS.: Scroll down, as I traced the source of the bug two days after the original post. At the time of this post-postscript (December 21, 2.46 GMT), Facebook still had not ﬁxed things.—JY Facebook privacy is broken. After discovering last week that […]

Facebook removes my Limited Proﬁle option

08.12.2011/11.54

Those who know me know that I tend to break most websites. I’m the guy with a Blogger account where Google has held on to the data of one blog against its terms and conditions, but can’t tell me which blog it is. In fact, Google tells me that it’s one of Errol Saldanha’s […]

Google Plus: the penny drops; Facebook announces it’s taking away a feature it took away two months ago

09.11.2011/22.59

Looks like people are now being more fair and balanced about Google Plus, instead of drinking the Google Kool-Aid as they did at the site’s launch. Farhad Manjoo, in Slate, writes: Even Google’s own executives seem to have gotten bored by the site. After several public posts in the summer, co-founders Larry Page and […]

It’s the 1st of the month, so Facebook Timeline stops updating

01.11.2011/05.34

I know I’m not alone on this, as I have heard from two other Facebook friends, but Facebook has trouble getting to a new month with Timeline. Ever since my Facebook went to November 1, Timeline stopped updating. What rests there is the last post of October 31. Earlier today, I could still […]

How I’m consuming social media: the October 2011 edition

29.10.2011/08.45

I realize I’ve blogged less in general this year. Once upon a time, when I blogged less here, I was over at Vox (when it worked), writing personal, cathartic posts, sometimes directed at a limited audience. But now, and I never thought I would say this: Facebook seems to be where I’m directing some of […]

Cringely gives Facebook till 2014 to peak—and he may be right

22.07.2011/23.49

Bob Cringely wrote (found via Stowe Boyd): Facebook is a huge success. You can’t argue with 750 million users and growing. And I don’t see Google+ making a big dent in that. What I see instead is more properly the fading of the entire social media category, the victim of an ever-shortening event horizon. […]

The Murdoch apology does not let us off the hook

16.07.2011/02.34

Above is Rupert Murdoch’s apology for the actions of the News of the World, to run in the UK in the wake of the resignations of Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton. They’re great words, and they’re straight out of the PR 101 playbook. Some might say they’re a triﬂe too late, as was […]