July 2012
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17-y-o arrested in England for sending nasty tweet... →
Heckuva job, internet. (Yep, it’s that dude.)
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Mindy Meyer: The Web’s first troll candidate →
My new Salon column: Mindy Meyer, trollgaze politics, web culture, and the possible upside.
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Nicki Minaj's Retroactive Feminism →
A great thing on Nicki by J. Escobedo Shepherd.
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"Erica is helping ho-ho-host 50/50 Press's first... →
How the Aurora Shootings Became Fodder for Lulz |... →
justsayjolie:
It’s a great thing when you have a girlfriend who you love enough that you can totally shake off hating her for being so much smarter than you.
Kate wrote a fantastic piece in The Atlantic.
Indeed!
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ha ha ha ha ha you gusy
artyucko:
so this Google Fiber thing ha ha ha
so they have these designated fiberhoods where they want people to play cheerleader and get at least 10% of homes in their fiberhood to pay a $10 deposit by Sept.9 or tough shit you miss out, and if they do choose your hood then you will only have one chance for installation, installation fees being $300 but hey they’ll waive that for first time...
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The remarks came as Mr. Romney’s campaign was trying to keep press accounts of the candidate’s visit on the positive side. On Thursday, for instance, Mr. Romney toured an exhibit with Foreign Secretary William Hague, his campaign shared in an e-mail that their conversation was “broad and wide ranging,” and included issues like the importance of free trade, and the situations in Syria and Egypt...
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Jay Rosen did not like my Salon piece →
Dye your hair black, never look back
David Grosssman sent me an e-mail with some questions about me, so I figured I would just answer them here, in case they’re of interest to others. Well, I guess by “answer” I mean more “free-associate based on his general areas of interest.”
I started blogging in 2003, on Blogspot, while bored at a day job. I’d written a lot before that - one of my undergrad...
Looking For Bay Area Fashion, Food, or Crafting...
Here’s a call from a friend of mine; if you’re a fashion, food, or crafting blogger in the Bay Area, please drop her a line. It will help her a lot and she will pay you!
Help! I’m a scholar in the midst of a research project looking at photo sharing. I specifically want to talk to fashion bloggers in the Bay Area who take and SHARE lots of photos. Do you know anyone like this?...
A week with Radiohead →
hndrk:
Can we please start a Tumblr round of dramatic slow-clapping for Daniella’s stellar Radiohead coverage? That was a bit good. (If I may say so.)
All of the week’s posts in chronological order at the link above.
Here, you should read this, it is great.
goldman:
“It’s an audiotape the New York Police Department hoped you would never hear.
A building superintendent at an apartment complex just off the Rutgers University campus called the New Brunswick Police 911 line in June 2009. He said his staff had been conducting a routine inspection and came across something suspicious.
“What’s suspicious?” the dispatcher asked.
“Suspicious in the...
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Hold the Reddit hype: The site broke important... →
I’m going to be writing about web politics for Salon once a week for a bit. Here’s my first thing, about the Colorado shootings and crowdsourced journalism.
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"In the end, the Internet will always tell you... →
What’s wrong with this sentence?
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How Do Amnesic Patients Vote? →
Remembering and Voting: Theory and Evidence from Amnesic Patients Jason Coronel et al., American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming Abstract: One of the most prominent claims to emerge from the field of public opinion is that citizens can vote for candidates whose issue positions best reflect their own beliefs even when they cannot remember previously learned stances associated with the...
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12 Ideas The Olympics Committee Rejected Before... →
By me, at Sound of the City.
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Listening To Lindsay Lohan's 2004 Debut Album →
My new Vanity Project Project column is about LINDSAY LINDSAY LINDSAY, and celebrity culture in the mid-aughts, and guitar-driven teenpop, and all like that.
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"Beware The Spectre Of Polyphony": Seven... →
Here is a list I wrote for Sound of the City on some of the things that have been thought to kill music over the last 7 centuries.
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Here are the readings for the lecture on web media...
fatmanatee:
Will it be available… ONLINE?
Ha, no, not unless one of my students surreptitiously tapes it with a digital camera in the manner of the citizen journalists we discussed on Monday. It’s for the “Navigating Information Networks” class I’m teaching this summer.
It runs in the family
maryphillipssandy:
Brother: The UN should have a little cafe in their lobby called Coffee Anon. Me: Are you at the UN?? Brother: No.
Could be right next door to Boutros Boutros-Deli.
