Chronicle No.9 – Mean tweets, Facebook’s suzerainty, Seinfeld VR, Dublin sign writers

1. Mean Tweets. Read out Loud

From the comfort of sitting behind their computers, people write some pretty mean old Tweets. Here celebs read them out loud. Warts and all. Have a look!

2. IGN Look Through Sony’s Head Mounted Display at CES 2014

Check out Sony’s new wearable HDTV, which can connect with your phones and consoles.

3. Facebook’s suzerainty

Suzerainty is a new one on us, according to Simple Wikipedia “Suzerainty is a situation in which a region or people is a tributary to a more powerful entity which allows the tributary some limited domestic autonomy.”

“Facebook’s suzerainty over its platform partners neither makes a lot of friends nor influences people. Centuries of economic practice have shown us that a distributed, free ecosystem of entrepreneurs, hustlers, and inventors can out-innovate and out-perform a centrally planned economy. Facebook chose to be a central power. It thought it knew better than its developers. As a result, most of the innovation that should have accrued to Facebook’s benefit accrued, instead, to the iOS and Android platforms.

4. Bitcoin explained to a 5 year old. We could do with more of these!!

A new currency is here. It may become a true global currency. Governments want to control it. But, first, they need to understand it.

5. Dublin sign writing film

Nicely shot film about signwriting in Dublin.

6. Walk Inside Seinfeld’s Apartment, Courtesy of Oculus Rift

Watching re-runs of “Seinfeld” not enough for you? Then take a digital trip into Jerry’s apartment with Oculus Rift.

7. Are we sharing stories without actually reading them?

“Clicks from social media are more likely to come from mobile devices, where readers typically spend less time on the page.

It also likely reflects readers’ preferences about what types of links they click – studies show people are more likely to share stories that are happy or nostalgic than they are to tweet about crime, for example. It’s also possible that some highly retweeted stories contain all the information necessary in the headline without the need to click on the article, as with some breaking news.

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