Media

Well would you look at that, our friends over at Jewcy.com got an Internet facelift (also known as a “redesign”).

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 they announced declining cable TV subscriptions, cord-cutters who get rid of…

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, too, but their recent Kindle TV ad took a different…

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.”

Ben McGrath profiles Gawker Media founder Nick Denton for The New Yorker.

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 the limited paid foreign correspondence in the media today. Logistically…

Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott and HTMLGIANT founder Blake Butler in a roundtable discussion about online intimacy at The Faster Times.