You might call it a split personality disorder contracted by spending too much time online. Strawberriecake goes back to high school. Someone said I looked like Strawberry Shortcake all grown up. And since I’m not short, I combined the leftover words: Strawberriecake. Strawberrycake (with strawberry spelled correctly) was already taken as a username on many [...]
You might call me a competitive person. I compete against myself to do better, and I always want to win. When the situation calls for it, I love to trash talk. So when the group of people I work closely with started sending out a Daily Klout Score Card, I knew I had to step [...]
When I saw her face, slanted jaw open in the common ‘I’m dancing at a party’ position, arms up in the air and skirt riding high, I cringed. Twice now she had passed me by on the street as though she didn’t know who I was, but she kept me hanging on as a Facebook [...]
With subjects like spirituality, bodily functions and what she ate for lunch in her Twitter stream, @ImTheQ tears down the digital facade that has become so pervasive in social media. “I basically tweet about what I think, and I think some pretty strange things,” she said in a recent conversation. Q’s an activist of ideas [...]
You could hear the cries almost before South By Southwest was over. There are too many people, too many campuses, too many panels, too many streets closed off. Getting to the various locations was a hassle. Getting a quick bite to eat was difficult, and $10 is too much to pay to go a few [...]
