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Continue ReadingSocial media sites can be great resources for creative types, but I’m learning there’s limit to how many we actually need.
Continue ReadingClarkson, Hammond and May, know how to amass fans on social media, but how much access to our favorite celebrities to we really need?
Continue ReadingLately, we have been toying with the idea of doing away with Twitter for business purposes. Not that we tweet hardcore sales info; typically we tweet about community involvement, tips, and news. However, the stats on our tweets have gone to numbers in the tens.
Continue ReadingA man tells his doctor, “Doctor, I am addicted to Twitter.”
Continue Reading#ScienceAMovieQuote is trending on Twitter, and smartly hilarious!
Continue ReadingWriter/Director Paul Feig has been very active on Twitter these past couple of weeks, sharing photos and news from his ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot and responding directly to fans’ questions, concerns and cosplay inquires.
Continue ReadingTeach your kids that just because someone is your friend doesn’t mean they’re your friend.
Continue ReadingPatricia uses Storify to share her first day at Denver Comic Con.
Continue ReadingThe last few days have seen some serious fandom rage from and at certain comic book creators. Who’s right, who’s wrong, and who needs to just go away?
Continue ReadingHere are a few ways to keep them from eating your life (some of which you may already be familiar with, but they’re worth revisiting) — allowing you to enjoy social media sites when you’re ready, but don’t feel the need to come running every time they call.
Continue ReadingWhen Twitter feeds started filling up with #GenCon2014, some gamers who weren’t attending the convention started their own hashtag: #GenCant2014.
Continue ReadingEight months later, GeekMom Sarah finds her love of dragons exceeds her dislike of franchises and settles in with The Desolation of Smaug.
Continue ReadingSharing photos online has become the norm for most of us, and now when you share those photos you can also help a worthy cause with the Donate a Photo app.
Continue ReadingSocial Planes gives us a means of communicating in a fun way that doesn’t involve our phones that makes the message more personal to the writer and the receiver.
Continue ReadingHave you ever tried to find kid-appropriate Twitter feeds? We have a list for you!
Continue ReadingFind the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.
Continue ReadingEvery social media user has the choice to post what he/she chooses. Anything can be conveyed. Anything! Apparently I only post the happier stuff. Why worry people, right? Does that make me a fraud?
Continue ReadingI don’t generally go in for fake celebrity Twitter accounts or their meme du jour counterparts, but occasionally I stumble across something so weird and wonderful that I hit that Follow button without so much as a second thought.
Continue ReadingMany parents start baby books for their children. Looking at my son’s book, I realized he won’t learn as much about his early years through his baby book as he will through my Facebook page and the posts I’ve written for GeekMom.
Continue ReadingThe internet is starting to become a breeding ground for causes to gain support. According to the Urban Dictionary, there’s a word for this new trend: t’s called slactivism. If you can’t tell, it’s a mix of the two words slacker and activism.
Continue ReadingOkay, sure, it’s Superman’s anniversary too. But it’s Lois Lane, currently getting the short shrift in DC Comics, who needs to be recognized on the 75th anniversary of her first appearance. Directions on how to join in the Twitter trending event!
Continue ReadingThe idea is pretty simple: a live feed of all of Twitter, graphically placed on a map of the world, with stats per continent in a HUD that can be pushed down to allow for what feels like a god’s-eye …
Continue ReadingDespite my protests, summer always leaves eventually. I live in the southern US, so I can pretend for a long time, but come January, I have to face it. It’s just plain cold. There are only two ways to make that better: gingerbread lattes, which leave after Christmas, and funky tights, which are always your friend. Here are a few of my favorites.
Continue ReadingUnless you’ve been living under a rock or not reading Wired (which in our world is pretty much the same thing), you’ll know that this Sunday we celebrate the first ever GeekDad Day. Wired has officially taken over Father’s Day …
Continue ReadingGovernment physicists will be chatting on Twitter this afternoon at 2PM Eastern.
Continue ReadingTwitter has been inundated by, shall we say, “normals.” What was once our little playground has become rather more populated. But that doesn’t make it any less effective a tool for communication. It just means we have to stick together, …
Continue ReadingInspired by my son’s magnificent Munchkin drawing in our recent game of Draw Something, and then embracing my own opportunity to re-create the iconic image, I have started a Flickr group to showcase all of our efforts to draw John …
Continue ReadingOf all the stars I was able to interview as part of the press event I attended for Universal’s The Lorax movie earlier this month, Danny DeVito was the most familiar to me. I didn’t expect too many surprises, having …
Continue ReadingStarting at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific today, and lasting for a half hour, the official Twitter account for the upcoming blockbuster movie The Avengers will host a global chat with several members of the movie’s cast, as well as …
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