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As faux-vlog lonelygirl15 picked up tons of press for being a smash hit on YouTube, lonelygirl15 was picking up something of its own: a user-created alternate reality game, known originally as “cassieiswatching.” In the world of social media, the rest of us should be watching too: cassieiswatching proves plenty of valuable observations in how social media — as well as the platforms it exists on — are mashed up, acquired, and used.

With the PlayStation 3 going for nearly $2,000.00 on eBay, I’m left trying to figure out what kinds of people pay so much for what is little more than a bigger/better/faster PlayStation 2. Putting the insane consumers aside, though, I’ve learned that something in the economics of this Christmas is just a little skewed: the PS3 is not the real star of the season.

Social media has prevailed in humanising what was once a very mechanical Internet, but it’s no different than the abstraction that’s been happening since the beginnings of computing. Could business actually abstract even further into an entirely human virtual workspace?

Updated hyalineskies has been experiencing some server issues for the past few days. Here’s what’s up.

People just don’t seem to care about flying today: it’s a disastrous battle for seat space, an impossibility to be comfortable, and a joke to see someone actually enjoy the experience. Once, however, the airlines were glamorous; flying was really a premium service, an aesthetically pleasing adventure. I just wish that was still the case.