"We are from a time where if something is broken we fix it, not throw it away." Written in comic book style... is this supposed to be a real couple? Interplay between the picture, the words, and the presentation

And for mobile phones, read Facebook Timeline's interface design, the organising principles underpinning operating systems like OSX and Google Chrome OS, the platform service ecosystem of iTunes+iPhone, an RFID-based airport check-in system, the architecture of Angry Birds, what XBox Live says about community; what transport data apps say about contemporary urbanism; what the Microsoft Word interface says about our approach to tools; how the design strategy of the New York Times sketches the future of journalism, how Spotify follows in a lineage of music experiences from Brionvega to Technics....

since Google can stop child porn (which is terrible), Congress thinks that surely it must be able to stop Internet piracy (which is less terrible).

what is this figure?

"Gotta call him honey on this one"

"The aircraft is really close now. Almost close enough to see it."

'Jarvis, I argue, was engaged in sociotechnical notemaking during such periods, using informal, networked, short-form writing work in digital publics as a heuristic and inventional practice leading to the generation of more formal prose.'

And let’s face it: Our culture has lost the ability to usefully disagree. Most Americans seem to avoid argument. But this has produced passive aggression and groupthink in the office, red and blue states, and families unable to discuss things as simple as what to watch on television. Rhetoric doesn’t turn kids into back-sassers; it makes them think about other points of view.

'But more relevant to the future of news are the rhetorical structures that Reddit has given names to. They’re no more new than Frequently Asked Questions are, but so what? FAQs have become a major new rhetorical form, of unquestioned value, because they got a name. Likewise TIL, IAMA, and AMA are hardly startling in their novelty, but they are pretty amazing in practice.'

"Mentions of the middle class: zero".

'gamification's rhetoric claims that this is a new, unexplored space in which we're just learning things for the first time. But in fact we already know a lot of things about how gamification works and doesn't work, and have done a lot of thinking about the relationships between things like extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, and gameplay, and pretending that we don't know any of that isn't a good way to make progress. '

1970s Fb, 1960s Twitter, etc.

Kwickchex online reputation management company, ‘I looked at some of them and certainly the wording and the dates of the postings were indicative of a malicious attack.’

Interesting that they don't mention this use of technology by black people.

Imagined 404 pages for major companies.

'students complied just as readily when the experimenter gave a "placebo" explanation that was utterly without content: "May I use the Xerox machine because I need to make some copies?" Apparently, just decorating the sentence with the word because was enough to sway the students.'

'A fallacy is a kind of error in reasoning. The alphabetical list below contains 206 names of the most common fallacies, and it provides brief explanations and examples of each of them. Fallacies should not be persuasive, but they often are. Fallacies may be created unintentionally, or they may be created intentionally in order to deceive other people. The vast majority of the commonly identified fallacies involve arguments, although some involve explanations, or definitions, or other products of reasoning. Sometimes the term “fallacy” is used even more broadly to indicate any false belief or cause of a false belief. The list below includes some fallacies of these sorts, but most are fallacies that involve kinds of errors made while arguing informally in natural language.'

'Historically we’ve used intuition to interact with our imagined audience, keeping mental models in our heads of what we think will be most entertaining and interesting. With the advent of social network spaces, we can leverage available data to power thoughtful decisions on ways to interact with an ever-growing networked audience.'

'What are these brands? What are these plants?'

A Republican shows a clip from The Town (the one about the Boston thief) to inspire Tea Party members to vote with Boehner's debt ceiling plan.
Jon Stewart explains that the metaphor favors the Republicans, but Tea Partyers let the clip sway them.
Dems summarize the movie clip drily.

A war metaphor for missing pages:

'Periodically, pages go missing, assets get misplaced -- you should not be concerned. This is a startup, this kind of thing happens. At Nosh, we are fortunate to have a relationship with several teams of ex-special forces operatives who help us track down these missing pages. When a page on this website goes rogue -- and a code 404 arises -- we dispatch one of our teams to bring it back.'

Uses figure of physical mailman to illustrate how "wrong" it is to judge your email by keywords, to promote Microsoft 365. 'Your email is your business. Google makes it theirs.' (Even though ads aren't shown for business Gmail accounts.)

Not-very-good description of 404 pages and Steve Lambert's video, but does include 'Lambert's video is reminiscent of time both before and after a performance where everyone involved is waiting for something else to happen.'

'Monday thru Friday I upload a live action cartoon. Racist, self hating, morbid, yet ironically very family friendly.'

Last name as marker of expected familiarity

'For the Washington punditocracy, to attain last-name status on Drudge marks an achievement of sorts: It’s recognition that political observers find your work so familiar that a first name is hardly needed. “Having your last name touted on Drudge is sort of the Washington equivalent of first-name recognition in Hollywood, where Jen and Brad and Angelina need no further identification,” said The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz. “But I always wonder whether half of Drudge’s readers scratch their heads and say, ‘Who?’”'

Isaiah Mustafa, the Old Spice guy, accepts Fabio's challenge to a duel.

'You know what else I've been watching? A certain man with hair who's been using a very harsh and heavily accented vernacular to challenge me to a duel. Well, sir, a real man would've challenged me to a duel with a left-to-right slap across the face using only the finest pair of off-white duel-challengement gloves. Your pathetic verbal attempt to arouse me has been the equivalent of being lightly rubbed across the cheek very slowly with a damp sponge or exfoliating luffa--an almost enjoyable experience, which made my brain chuckle, then shoot the following words to my mouth: "Yes, Fabio. I accept your challenge."'

Thanks God for things we've made, but things we're actually thankful for (fuel, cars, etc.) References Talladega Nights by "smoking hot wife".