Josh Benner

Month: November 2011

  • Facebook 2004 and Facebook 2011. Seven year anniversary of joining the Social Network

    I can still vividly remember it. Talking to a friend from high school on AIM, him sending me the link to some obscure site that he had mentioned to me called thefacebook. “BG has it now,” he said, telling me to register. I was skeptical. thefacebook? What does that even mean, but I followed his…

  • Ohio State – Purdue: Notes and Thoughts

    I believed in him. Ohio State had struggled to move the ball with a passing game which was as bad as usual and a running game that was never able to get going. Despite all of that, late in the fourth quarter the Bucks took the ball in good field position, trailing by only six.…

  • Paterno Fired. Society Needs to do more in these situations than sit back and feel angry

    Photo Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons I’ve read the Grand Jury report on the indictment for former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. I’ve spent a great deal of time over the past few days thinking about what has happened and the darkness of the entire situation. I’m torn on how things with Paterno should…

  • Rant – Why I did NOT Vote

    Note: This post was originally published on this blog on November 2, 2010. Here it is published with some modifications. Pet peeve of the day: self righteous voters. No I did not vote today, and I keep seeing these Facebook and Twitter status updates that seem to imply this feeling of superiority to which voters…

  • The Miracle Basketball Video and Why Facebook Made it Popular

    Since this weekend, I’ve seen over a dozen Facebook friends share the same video of a high school basketball team manager in New York (who had never gotten to play before) who has autism who was put into a game and hit six 3-point shots. Through Facebook, people marvel at the accomplishment. They call it…