One year ago today
Gawker reporter claims to have seen video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack: Gawker’s John Cook was contacted by a tipster who offered to sell him a video of Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack for more than $40K.
Five years ago today
How kids use the net now, from danah boyd: They don’t use Twitter. When asked, teens always say that they’ll use their preferred social network site (or social media service) FOREVER as a sign of their passion for it now. If they expect that they’ll “grow out of it”, it’s a sign that the service is waning among that group at this very moment. So they’re not a good predictor of their own future usage.
Ten years ago today
Advice to newlyweds: John Scalzi, a very talented humour writer and novelist (I like to think of him as the “edgy Dave Barry”), has written a bunch of notes for the newly married gays and lesbians of Massachusetts.