Janet Kornblum
Janet Kornblum was the Daily Dot’s first features editor. She works as a journalist and licensed private investigator in the Bay Area, and she has contributed reporting and photography to USA Today and CNET.
When voice recognition goes very, very bad
Have you ever had a voice recognition fail like this epic error?
On Jan 31, 2013 by Janet Kornblum
Protecting girls online, or alternatively, jail the bastards
Do the girls who flash strangers online seem beyond your comprehension? Why would they do such a thing? Janet Korblum points out that you might want to remember your own teenage years and think again.
On Dec 19, 2012 by Janet Kornblum
Privacy? That’s so 1990s
When you realize how much you’re really putting out there.
On Dec 13, 2012 by Janet Kornblum
Strange and true Facebook intimacies
Finding humanity in the flow of Facebook.
On Dec 7, 2012 by Janet Kornblum
The Creepy Stranger
Columnist Janet Kornblum on following someone’s Instagram.
On Nov 29, 2012 by Janet Kornblum
Framing the world, one click at a time
In a road trip home for the Thanksgiving holiday, our columnist Janet Korblum ruminates on how we see the world through photographs now that we are constantly taking and posting them.
On Nov 21, 2012 by Janet Kornblum
Generations of email
Columnist Janet Kornblum on helping our parents and grandparents get online.
On Nov 14, 2012 by Janet Kornblum
Can’t we all just get along on Facebook?
Politics makes strange friend-fellows. Janet Kornblum writes about the political discussions we can—and can’t—have with our Facebook friends.
On Nov 6, 2012 by Janet Kornblum
YouTube fundraiser launches gay-rights documentary
Using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Kickstarter, Ryan James Yezak raised $63,000 to make “Second Class Citizens.”
On Jan 18, 2012 by Janet Kornblum
New Hanukkah classics light up YouTube
Here are some great videos to get your Hannukah party started.
On Dec 20, 2011 by Janet Kornblum
Boing Boing blogger: I have breast cancer
After live-tweeting her mammogram, Xeni Jardin had little choice about revealing her diagnosis, too.
On Dec 2, 2011 by Janet Kornblum
Call off Facebook—missing girl found!
Allie Loftis, a Massachusetts teen, has turned up safe in New Jersey.
On Nov 16, 2011 by Janet Kornblum
“This is what democracy looks like”
Dorli Rainey found out the hard way that “free speech does have it limits.” A photo of her pepper sprayed by police—helpless—has become one of the most disturbing images to emerge from the Occupy movement.
Pay to play on Etsy
Etsy today announced that sellers can now buy ad space to get their stuff noticed.
On Sep 21, 2011 by Janet Kornblum
Baby stuff for Beyoncé
Want to get something for Beyoncé’s baby? Here are some ideas.
On Aug 31, 2011 by Janet Kornblum
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