On the Facebook Redesign

Kellan Elliott-McCrea, who knows about the difficulties involved in getting large-scale social services to play nice, wrote some of the first insightful things I’ve seen about the recent Facebook redesign. [In contrast to Twitter, Facebook] specifically designed a page that was lossy. They said, “You don’t want to see everything, here is a subset of [...]

Social Networks Assume A Great Deal

Sarah Dopp made a disturbing discovery on Facebook today: It’s staggering to realize all the cultural messages dropped on women. Do advertisers really only see women as “pre-dieting”? Come on Facebook, you can do better. It’s not hard. But it’s worse than it appears. If you set your profile to genderless, it still hectors you [...]