Christine Cavalier

"I'm kicking myself I didn't buy Lightroom when I was trying to decide JUST LAST YEAR. RRG." - Christine Cavalier

"Aw! This made me cry, it's so beautiful, so simple and fun but breathtaking. Thank you very much for sharing this." - Christine Cavalier

"Lisbeth Salander is a great example of a cyberpunk character gone mainstream, to support your point about the general adoption and ubiquity of the trope. Any online writer is Lisbeth now, isn't she?" - Christine Cavalier

"Ms. Reyes & Technical.ly Philly: This article and all the added value via links is great reporting. As a 20+year veteran of the digital space and as a Web and Internet specialist, I don't fully understand the controversy in our local newsrooms, like the recent developments at philly.com, the Inky & DN, @thephillyvoice and Billy Penn. This kind of reporting, with its update of new information mixed with the background information via links, is exactly what I need in order to catch up. Thank you. Can I ask for a little op-ed to help make sense of it all? Is this all just a battle between the old vs. the new? Are the Inky & DN failing because of Old White Guy Syndrome? Is the basic lack of understanding of how web advertising works at the crux of this? How much "bad blood" is at work here, between Norcross, Tierney, Lenfest and the journalism community? I realize I'm asking for what can be constituted as gossip, but I feel like everyone's walking on eggshells and being rather obtuse..." - Christine Cavalier

"That's like the start-up world's "Minimally Viable Product" ... sometimes those aren't such a great idea. Does this mean we writers/journalists should always blog for major outlets for free? To "try out" a column idea?" - Christine Cavalier

"We don't have any pre-web baseline info here. I'm sure Boomers and GenXers remember being goaded into doing something with "Oh, C'mon, at least it'll make a great story." I'm not a fan of perpetuating this illusion that social tech elicits new behaviors. We are human, our behaviors are human, we are simply using new tools. We have ALWAYS done things for the sole reason of telling someone else after, or making someone else do it too, etc. etc." - Christine Cavalier

"I doubt this is a fad. (Sorry for my late reply)" - Christine Cavalier

"Sigh. I suppose art like this has to be made if we are to process the social changes. But this is media hype. #selfieculture isn't a thing, it doesn't exist. Just because people take selfies doesn't mean it's a phenomenon poised to take over decency. These are the same old industrial revolution fears we see EVERY. TIME. Go back and look at the writings about the Guttenberg press, how book reading was feared as the destruction to all things societal. I personally cannot WAIT until the Boomers (and some Xers) are done hemming and hawing about online communications like this. It's truly disgusting." - Christine Cavalier

"I just saw Vivian Schiller speak 2 weeks ago at the Online News Association conference, and of course she made no mention of a reorganization at Twitter. What's behind this? And what do you think the trend is?" - Christine Cavalier

"Slowly but surely, let's hope. I'll take slowly rather than not at all..." - Christine Cavalier

"i saw what u did thar" - Christine Cavalier

"Validation bias works like this: A supposed authority tells you random traits. They tell you these traits are associated with you. You adopt this as fact, and focus on those traits in you as dominant and identifying, even if the traits seemed less prominent in your personality prior to this interaction. So yes, it applies as soon as you get your MBTI results. It also applies when you are getting your palm read or you're reading your fortune cookie insert, or looking up your horoscope or "what your name says about you" sites. The real fact is that anyone can display any trait at any time. You have habits, of course, but even those are constantly changing and influenced by our environments and pliable world views. If the MBTI says you're a procrastinator, that doesn't mean you are. No-one *IS* a procrastinator. People procrastinate, but that doesn't mean it isn't a changeable behavior. Tests like the MBTI are dangerous in that they limit people. They are dangerous in the same way an..." - Christine Cavalier

"I understand that it seems accurate enough. But that's a common validation bias (subjective validation) that works the same way with horoscopes. Lots of research indicates that the MBTI is garbage for personality assessment. It makes sense that it is, it's based on Jung's research-less kookiness. Garbage in, garbage out, as they say. More on subjective validation - the process behind horoscopes seeming "so real!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..." - Christine Cavalier

"oh. oops. I wish I'd known the "off the record" tradition of the space. That being said, though, Mac, I have found a lack of social tool use amongst journalists, especially the traditional ones. It's a cultural issue, surely, and the debate around it continues." - Christine Cavalier

"We aren't speaking about kids in a classroom with their teacher. We meant to discuss adults correcting other adults." - Christine Cavalier

"And then there's the curmudgeon who uses social media to grumble about how other people respond on social media... ;)" - Christine Cavalier