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There has been a giant shift in the content posted to Pinterest over the last 3 months. Around Christmas, 2011, the site was filled with holiday crafts, recipes, and home ideas with sprinklings of hairstyles and present wishlists dominating the site. Once it hit the “mainstream” and experienced the exponential growth that has highlighted the site over the last 3 months, more cars, infographics, and offbeat funny pictures started creeping it. By all accounts, it appeared as if the site that was completely dominated by women was being invaded by male users. Long-time Pinterest users started…

Chances are if you’re reading this article that you and most of the people you know have a smartphone. If you put them all in a room and asked them to put their smartphones on a table, you’ll likely see various Android devices mixed in with (depending on who you have as friends and family) approximately the same number of iPhones. What you probably won’t see are many (any?) Windows Phones. When it comes to speed, performance, and UI, many would agree that the Windows Phone is equal to or greater than its competitors. Microsoft put their money where their mouth was recently at their various stores and…

It was once an essential component of the media that helped millions to be able to visualize the world from a distance in news reports and features. Often the photos that were brought to us by photojournalists with expensive cameras were more important than the words that accompanied them. Today, it is becoming as much a form of art as it is a delivery system for the news thanks in large part to the rise of smartphones. Nearly every event that involves humans is “covered” by smartphones. Through social media, the images associated with activities are available within seconds of them occurring, broadcast…

Some people go to SXSW to see the latest and greatest in interactive, music, and film. Others go to see the tastemakers and trendsetters of each industry in person in ways that are only possible once a year in Austin. For many, they go because SXSW has some of the best geek parties of the year all within a week. That’s the premise behind this infographic. The #SXSW Party Guide is everything you need to know. Click to enlarge. Via: Hasai…

The digital age is loaded with activities that we can perform any second of any day. As long as there’s an internet connection available, we have access at nearly all times to devices that keep us connected to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the like. As a result, the things we do on social media have expanded at a frantic pace to the point where it’s nearly unfathomable. Take YouTube, for instance. In a social media minute, over 2 million videos are viewed. Just a couple of years ago social media was an occasional activity for the tech-savvy youths of the world. Today, it’s an every-moment-of-every…

Space may or may not be the final frontier, but the television and movie series Star Trek and its subsequent incantations have sparked the imagination of sci-fi fans across the ages. From Kirk and Spock to Picard and Data, then back to a new Kirk and Spock, Star Trek has become one of the most influential fictional concepts of the modern era. From nerds to geeks to hipsters and beyond, the dreams of millions have been guided by the ideas of particle transporters, warp engines, and photon torpedoes. It is an icon of pop culture and road map towards a better distant future. This graphic takes us through…

As the internet and mobile technology enter more aspects of our lives in this digital age, the activities we perform on a daily basis continues to expand at an extreme pace. It’s the way of the world that 2 million blog posts are published daily, that email dominates much of our time with nearly 300 billion sent, and our lives are hitting the web via pictures at a pace that is astounding. It can only get bigger from here, but this infographic depicts where we stand as of this day. Click to enlarge. Created by: MBA Online…

Those of us who have been classically trained in journalism (from back in the days when journalism was more than blogging and posting videos to Twitter), it’s hard to see the decline of the world in which we once thrived. Writing for a local newspaper in the 80s showed me two things that I can say are amongst my most insightful perspectives: Journalism has always been an engine that drives revenues Real “journalists” were going to be replaced over time as technology improved At the time I was called an apocalyptic freak. I believe those were the actual words used by an editor who was, at the time, in his…

Anyone with kids (and many adults, for that matter) are aware that achievements garnered through performing certain activities in games are sought after despite being relatively worthless. They can rarely be “cashed in” on anything. They aren’t broadcast. In many ways, these achievements and progressions are very personal though they do add bragging rights amongst friends. How can this mild obsession with rewards and achievements be translated into education? The fact that it’s a question is sort of sad; this could easily become the cornerstone of an education system that goes beyond grades…

Assuming that Mitt Romney gets the GOP nomination to take on Barack Obama in November, most will attribute his success in the primaries to having more money, placing more negative television ads, and having a stronger organization behind him than his remaining 3 competitors. The reality of his victory can be seen on social media. It isn’t that Romney is doing things right. It’s that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are doing things more wrong. Ron Paul is hanging in there gathering delegates and placing well in some states despite having the least coverage by the news media and the least money spent…