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It's official. The CEO of Electronic Arts, John Riccitiello, has resigned. Personally, I'm not very surprised by this news considering the problems that EA has experienced. In his place, for now, will be Chairman Larry Probst, who is a previous EA chief executive, while the board searches for a permanent replacement. According to the Wall Street Journal, EA's shares have
Happy St. Patrick's Day! If you are celebrating in the United States, this day involves viewing a parade and drinking copious amounts of alcohol. If that doesn't interest you, then perhaps the Google Doodle for today will. Google has created an adorable troop of Irish dancers for today's Doodle, who appear to be preforming a traditional Irish dance, (complete with
We live in a world where the Pope can Tweet. Pope Benedict XVI was on Twitter. His handle was @Pontifex which sent out Tweets in English. There was also @Pontifex_ es (which was in Spanish and was the one I was following). All told, there were 8 different language versions of @Pontifex on Twitter. Pope Benedict XVI was the first
Those of you who are lamenting the upcoming loss of Google Reader are not alone – not by far. There are a lot of people right now who are seeking an alternative to replace it (with varying degrees of success, depending upon each person's needs). Digg has a different way of solving this problem. They are going to build a
The internet is freaking out today after hearing the news that Google has decided to kill off the extremely popular Google Reader. The reaction is understandable. Many of us rely on Google Reader as an quick way to keep up to date with the news and to easily discover when the blogs we follow have updated with new content. There
Poetry is an art form that has been around for centuries. As such, it doesn't easily fit into some forms of social media. This is something I can speak first hand about. My Twitter name is @queenofhaiku, which I selected because I enjoy writing these simple looking (but deceptively complex) three lined poems. Up until recently, I had to resort
SimCity has been mentioned quite a bit in blogs, news articles, and various forms of social media recently – for all the wrong reasons. EA, the makers of the game, have done an excellent job of finding ways to frustrate potential players. I haven't seen this much complaining about a game since the launch of Diablo III (which didn't have