Media
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Danya’s Tech Roundup
The entire Internet erroneously tried to kill off the Sony Walkman last week. A 900GB torrent of all Geocities websites will capture a lot of web history, animated GIFs. Contrary to Comcast’s claim when…
Danya’s Tech Roundup
The new color Nook shows that e-reader makers are acknowledging that digital books need to be beautiful as well as readable. Amazon recognized they had to respond to the trend,…
Podcast Q&A With Paris Review Editor Lorin Stein
Over at Hot Metal Bridge, Steve Gillies hits us with a podcast version of a Q&A with Lorin Stein. Introduced by author Chuck Kinder, Lorin Stein talks with the book…
Depressed Creativity? Sort Of.
When Martin Heidegger wrote his gargantuan Magnus opus, Being and Time, he posited that it was Angst, the fundamental human condition, that brought us into the most authentic relationship with…
Blog vs. Web Magazine
So what’s the difference–if there even is any–between a “blog” and a “web magazine”? Farhad Manjoo tackles this question in the cleverly title “This Is Not a Blog Post.”
2011: The Revenge of Print?
“We are challenging everyone who’s ever made/self-published a zine, a comic or mini-comic before to dust off the ol’ photocopier and make at least one more new issue in 2011.”…
“If you run it out of your house, then no one expects anything…”
Ben McGrath profiles Gawker Media founder Nick Denton for The New Yorker.
Being There Matters
Here’s an interesting Nieman Report on foreign correspondence. In the report’s introduction John Maxwell Hamilton suggests that it is public lack of interest in news from abroad that has created…
How to be intimate online
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott and HTMLGIANT founder Blake Butler in a roundtable discussion about online intimacy at The Faster Times.
Is Social Media Replacing New York as the Center of Cultural Production?
Is New York still the center of cultural activity in the modern world? Colleen Dilenschneider isn’t so sure. On her blog, Dilenschneider writes about five ways in which social media…
Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Emily Gould
I don’t know how much braver than you I’m feeling these days,” she wrote back when I first emailed her.