Media
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48 Hour Magazine
48 Hour Magazine is now available online. The project, “which was just a concept 14 days ago,” was a complete success, with over 1,502 submissions. A very special (albeit somewhat self-serving) congratulations to our own Nicholas Rombes, whose short story…
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Private Social Networking
“Four students at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences want to create an alternative to current social media that lets users better control their privacy.” Facebook, meet Diaspora, “a planned personal Web server that stores information to be…
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“Did you attend journalism school? Is it a good way to ‘break-in?’”
“I have no idea if that’s a good way to ‘break-in.’ Considering that the state of journalism today is like that of a bank that has been robbed, it’s hard to imagine why anyone would want to ‘break-in’ to it…
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The Revealer on National Prayer Day
The Revealer, loosely affiliated with the Center for Religion and Media at NYU and Killing the Buddha, covers “religion in the news and the news about religion.” An article about National Prayer Day yesterday examines the evolution of the holiday,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Josh Wolf
At an anti-G8 demonstration in San Francisco in 2005, police and demonstrators clashed. Josh Wolf, then 23, videotaped the whole thing. When he refused to turn over his tapes to a federal grand jury, Wolf was jailed for 226 days—longer…
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Major Security Issue Discovered at Facebook
“Today I was tipped off that there is a major security flaw in the social networking site that, with just a few mouse clicks, enables any user to view the live chats of their ‘friends’. Using what sounds like a…
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NewYorker.com
“Some of my job is being the Web evangelist in the office – getting people involved and explaining why the Web is helpful to them and their story.” Sparksheet talks with Blake Eskin, The New Yorker‘s first web editor. (via…
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Maud’s Notes on Book Blogging
“If you’d told me in 2002 that I would keep at it for so long or that so many people would know about this site or care what I had to say, I probably would’ve reacted the way I did…
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“They’re probably watching the news and wishing it were more about their bombing and less about the oil spill.”
Today we published a review of David Goodwillie’s American Subversive by Eric B. Martin that it isn’t so much a review as an essay that tackles some really important questions about “literature, literary reviews, overstimulation, secret weapons, and 21st century…
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“Papers, Please.” Arizona News Links #4
Rep. Duncan D. Hunter of California–a guy who owes his career to his father and the population of the Congressional district who continually re-elected him–thinks that being born in the US shouldn’t be all it takes to become a citizen.…