“This Is Water” is a speech by American writer David Foster Wallace to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College. I’m reminded again how we are all just people being people and doing people things, and that we are all in this together. Hopefully this brings you the same...

As part of the 2013 BNZ Literary Awards, sponsor BNZ have come up with a novel way to promote the short story competition they’ve been running for a few years now. The competition, in which writers create tiny 150 word masterpieces, lends itself perfectly to social media platforms...

Compiled by Tara Sutherland We demanded a lot of April and boy, did April deliver! Some of us would be more than happy for the summer to continue however we needed rain and then it rained. We found out what channel number Parliament TV was and we continued to take the piss out of each other...

Compiled by Anna Connell March, and winter is coming. Fortunately for us funny tweeting is under consideration as a sport in both the Winter and Summer Olympics so there was no shortage of material. Census, attempts to alter the space time continuum, Popey smoke and another round of evidence...

Take a first look at the brand new X Factor NZ ads, rolling out today! Melanie Blatt Stan Walker Ruby Frost Daniel Bedingfield I am really excited to be working on this show – I think it’s going to be huge!...

Cantina is scary, funny, mind-bending and beautiful. Described as “a spectacularly dark and dangerous cocktail of circus”, it’s cabaret featuring characters who titillate and at the same time, frighten; Acts of stupidity or bravery, depending on how you look at them; And...

In Twitter’s earlier days, we used to tweet about things that, although safe for work, were a little on the naughty side. One person would tweet something slightly dodgy, and another would tweet back “there goes your brand!” Yes, I know, we were hilarious. But there was a...

Those of you who regularly use Twitter (or Instagram, or Pinterest, etc) will be familiar with hashtags. For those who aren’t, a hashtag is a way of grouping similar tweets or photos – like a tag. When enough of them happen in a short amount of time, that tag starts to trend. Why...

Compiled by Belinda Too As we’ve been enjoying this glorious endless summer all February long, our tweets have provided a curious record of what we’ve been up to. Some pretty weird stuff, it turns out. Please put down your coffee so you don’t spray it out your nose over your...

I wrote this two years ago, as the Tweets of the Month from the month of That Quake – and as posterous, where it was hosted, is closing down, I thought it should be kept.   February 2011: There’s something wonderful about the Kiwi spirit. We’re opinionated, bulshy, and...

Are you a social media/community manager who struggles to determine what a “good” Facebook page metric is? It seems that the only number people are really looking at is “likes” – as if that means something really important in this day and age of Facebook...

The Harlem Shake can’t be explained. It has to be seen, and hopefully, experienced. Check out my picks for the best Harlem Shake videos below, and add yours to the comments! The army edition The office edition The Portland edition The UGA Swim and Dive team edition The KSLA News...

Compiled by Vicky Rawhiti-Forbes As it should be during summer holidays, we spent a great deal of the past month drinking. Then we went back to work and watched cat videos.  One generous tweep shared extracts from her teenage diary, and we may never look at Oprah the same way again. Here are...

Why are so many women practitioners of social media in New Zealand, but so few willing to be the face of it at events and in the media? Let me start by telling you a story about one of the last social media events I went to. It was a night where two men and a woman were sharing their thoughts...

Today I got my Facebook account upgraded to include the new Open Graph Search – a function that allows you to use information which you and your friends have uploaded to Facebook, as well as info supplied by Bing, to find what you’re looking for. This is what the start screen looks...

Twitter: Giving people a licence to be rude to strangers since 2006. People often say “you shouldn’t be in the kitchen if you can’t stand the heat”, but hearing celebs read out the insults they get tweeted in the below videos highlight just how mental people can be. And...