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Shit-White-Girls-Black-Girls.jpg“The thing about memes is that through repetition, they create a shared language,” says Professor Julie Levin Russo, an adjunct assistant professor at Brown’s Modern Culture & Media Program. “If you understand the premise of the meme, you can communicate a lot very easily, with whatever twist you’re putting on the meme structure.”

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weekly_wrapup-1.pngRichard MacManus explores the characteristics of great user experience design. Alicia Eler explains what Pinterest is doing that Facebook should emulate. David Strom notes the decline of corporate blogging. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up.

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super-bowl-2012.jpegThis year’s Super Bowl will be more social than ever before.

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Shit-White-Girls-Black-Girls.jpg“The thing about memes is that through repetition, they create a shared language,” says Professor Julie Levin Russo, an adjunct assistant professor at Brown’s Modern Culture & Media Program. “If you understand the premise of the meme, you can communicate a lot very easily, with whatever twist you’re putting on the meme structure.”

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Posted on 4 Feb 2012 In: Web

Cartoon: Firestorm!

rob pussycat small.pngA while ago, I posted about one of the classic blunders in response to online criticism: deleting negative comments.

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