January 2011
10 posts
Is Obsessive "Curation" Ruining Brooklyn? |... →
Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments →
Is Facebook making us sad? Stanford University... →
The site’s very design—the presence of a “Like” button, without a corresponding “Hate” button—reinforces a kind of upbeat spin doctoring.
AllHipHop.com Daily News - : Exclusive: Jermaine... →
You wouldn’t have hung out with him before you knew what he did.
Stop Blaming Your Culture - Farnam Street →
Learning from White Castle — Gleanings — Utne... →
Infographic: The New American Marriage - Culture -... →
What effect has the internet had on celebrity? |... →
It’s because the web works outside the consent of the business. The audience is in charge, armed with a smartphone and a wi-fi connection. This makes us potentially more dangerous to the celebrity…
Interview: 'Authoritarian Governments Have... →
And the main message that it contains for them, I think, is that the Internet is political, that everything done with regard to Internet policy has political consequences, and that many of the…
The Case Against Economic Disaster Porn | The New... →
The human brain responds very differently to a picture of a person in ruin than to a building in ruin—you’d never see a magazine represent famine in Africa with a picture of arid soil. Without people…