social media

Why I Still Hate Facebook, or why Robert Scoble almost blocked me

by Karoli on October 2, 2011 · 11 comments

I clicked a Facebook link from Twitter last night about the Occupy Wall Street effort. If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have seen this post in my news stream from Robert Scoble about manufacturing jobs in Silicon Valley. And if I hadn’t seen that post, I wouldn’t have commented here or seen his comment in the [...]

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Free Speech Gone Crazy

by Karoli on June 21, 2011 · 0 comments

Right after I posted Twitter’s response, I ran across this article about two school speech/social media cases decided by the courts recently. In one case, it was Facebook commentary about a school principal that was pretty mild and expressive of the student’s personal opinion. No problem on that one. But this one has more parallels [...]

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BofA may not be the Great Satan after all

by Karoli on June 18, 2009 · 2 comments

I’m amazed to be writing this. I’ve been a customer with BofA for around 15 years. My personal and biz accounts are with them, and they surely reflect my financial ups and downs. Lately there’s been more down than up. I. Where I unload on cocky bank managers The most recent target of my frustration [...]

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