I don’t know. It seems a bit like Associated Content, using lenses to create niche content on specific issues for free, promising traffic, noteriety and even potential advertising cash to users. For the time being, I am subscribing to the same pathology that brought me to MySpace and other social media. Brand my name. So, Chris [...]

MySpace is lame, so how come many journalists are on the site and, as I posted recently, I now have a MySpace page too? In last week’s post, I described it largely as just another front in the world over branding my name online. Others see it for slightly different purposes. MSNBC commentator and Philadelphia Daily News [...]

I joined Flickr in February. But it sat there with just one photo. That has changed. I always thought I would use Flickr in a more limited way – just photographs I took with some purpose and others that carry some meaning. I’ll continue to use Slide to collect slideshows of any travel or experiences. My Flickr account [...]

Got an e-mail from Harvard University yesterday: Thank you for your application to the following position at Harvard University. Although we are unable to further your candidacy for this specific position at this time, we appreciate your interest in Harvard. I applied Aug. 15 for a full-time position I saw on Journalism Jobs, called the assistant editor of [...]

I recommend an occasional IV for everyone. Yes, the Internet vacation is a necessity. Through the magic of forward posting on this site, RSS feeds of this blog on all my social utilities and a reckless abandon when it comes to e-mail, I can do that with some regularity now that I am in between my post-graduate internship and an [...]

As of last week, Chris Wink is on MySpace. The first comment I got came from one of my oldest friends: “Wow, you are Sellout Central recently!” Surely noting my July foray into Facebook and other social networking experiences of late. I was a long hold out, interested in their function but critical of their [...]

On July 3, I finally succumbed and joined the movement that is Facebook. Six weeks later, I have 400 “friends” – yeah I am that popular. But, from when I first started thinking of giving into the social networking movement back in March, I took the decision way too seriously – wanting it to benefit [...]

Today, nearly four years after it launched, I have joined Facebook. The site itself launched in September 2004, and during that summer, while I readied to begin what would be a transcendent tenure at Temple University in Philadelphia, founder Mark Zuckerberg was watching his baby explode. From its Harvard roots, through other Boston and Ivy [...]

The Internet is changing what it means to have a name. I have already posted that this very blog that so begins the great push to lay claim to Web real estate, the most valuable of which lies on your name. Your marketability, your presence, particularly as employers, friends and intimates increasingly go to Google [...]

Understand, I take relish in few things as much as I do in being an old head, knowing little about technology, what is new and fresh. The trouble is that I am modestly pursuing a career in media. I graduate from Temple University in less than three months, with no job, little direction, and few [...]