Author Archives: Adam Gorley

Adam Gorley

Adam Gorley

Toronto Writer and Editor for hire. I write mostly about music, culture, and some other stuff, separately and in conjunction. I also fire off a mean short story when I have a moment, and a novel is on the way–I promise.

Dangerous Social Networking Games

By Adam Gorley | Published: February 25, 2010
I’m not quite sure where I stand on the phenomenon of location-aware applications. (I’m sure you’ve noticed that Foursquare is the hot one at the moment.) I find geo-tagging interesting; it’s the sort of thing that I want to use to build pre- and post-apocalyptic fantasies. But marking a spot with useful or neat info, [...]
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When Social Media Becomes Work

By Adam Gorley | Published: January 29, 2010
Talking with my friend Mike Kennedy recently, I realized that social media have invaded my job. My personal and professional lives are colliding! Blogging and reading blogs have become part of my job description, and there are small Twitter and Facebook communities among my co-workers (including me) and higher-ups. I talk to my boss on Twitter—weird. [...]
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What does Twitter do? (Part 2)

By Adam Gorley | Published: January 11, 2010
Now that you’ve learned all about the most basic function of Twitter (communication) from my previous post… I actually started that post because I wanted to talk about using Twitter as a human-powered search engine, but I got to talking about the basics and soon enough I realized that if I wrote any more I was [...]
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More thoughts on laptop DJing (in response to…)

By Adam Gorley | Published: October 29, 2009
Recently I wrote a post for BlogCampaigning on my experience transitioning from a vinyl DJ to a laptop DJ, which, from personal comments, appears to have been generally well received. But the only comment anyone actually posted on the blog was quite negative and passively critical. Initially, I wanted to tell the semi-anonymous commenter where [...]
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What does Twitter do? (Part 1)

By Adam Gorley | Published: August 26, 2009
I’ve been using Twitter now for a few months, and I still have little idea of it’s purpose—or if it even has one. At it’s base, Twitter is a simple way to share and receive bits of information, the modern currency. It’s like a data marketplace—a microcosm of the internet itself, and more manageable than [...]
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