“We are seeing renewed interest in the short story.”
Well here’s some good news for all you short fiction writers: “The Atlantic is going to start publishing fiction again.”
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Paper Fight
We’ve previously mentioned the fascinating battle taking place in San Francisco between the city’s two weekly newspapers: The San Francisco Bay Guardian (who won a $21 million dollar judgment against…
Google.cn Update
So Google still hasn’t pulled out of China. But today the company unblocked previously censored sites: “Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and…
Social Media Bust
So when is that new facebook friend not really a friend? When they’re a law enforcement agent using your online info against you. Whether checking an alibi against status updates…
Ad Blocking
With the days of frantically clicking away pop ups behind us, ad-blocking software may seem like the perfect way to view your favorite sites in peace. And yet, as Ken…
Accountability in Publishing
Anyone following the fall-out over Charles Pellegrino’s Last Train From Hiroshima—here’s the definitive New York Times story—would do well to read Philip Meyer’s “Accountability When Books Make News,” first published in…
Servers vs. Chainsaws
“The carbon footprint of data center server farms — roughly equal to that of paper mills today — is set to double in the next five years. And those server…
The History of Facebook
Facebook is the largest, fastest growing social site on the web, and yet its concept started in a college dorm room, and was (in part) modeled after one. Charles Peterson’s…
What They Forgot to Mention About Olympic Skier Julia Mancuso
This winter’s Olympics have seen the usual sentimental media saturation of weepy or aw-shucks back stories on the athletes.
“Horses Aren’t Extinct”
“I don’t think paper has hit bottom by any means, but I also don’t think it will be a quick or simple fall. There will be bumps and twists and…
RollingStone.com?
What is going on at RollingStone.com? The magazine’s website seems to have been taken over by a very lame ad. Has the magazine lost their domain name? (via @MacMcClelland) Update:…