Essay: "The Stupidest Myth in the World"

The death of Amy Winehouse  made headlines, but it didn't exactly sweep the social media landscape the way other, seemingly more trivial events, have done recently.  Whether you liked her style of music or not, Winehouse was exceptionally talented.  Her voice was unmistakable, of course, but her songs were very well put together too, and had an intense raw honesty that you don't see very much in popular music.

Essay: "Social Media and the Panopticon"

I was not particularly surprised by the riots after Vancouver lost game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals.  That kind of thing is nothing new, but you wouldn't know it from all the tut-tutting.  I think the spread of digitical cameras and social media made the stupidity and destruction of the riots hit home in a new way, much the same way that the photograph brought home the horrors of the American Civil war.