Anarchist Book Gets a Boost From Beck
“But even before the official pub date, The Coming Insurrection benefited from an ‘endorsement’ from Glenn Beck. As part of a seven-minute rant on Fox News in July, he said,…
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How Often Do You Check It?
Numbers from Nielsen prove what most of us already knew: “Facebook is the web’s ultimate timesink.” That’s right, the average Internet user spends more time on Facebook “than on Google,…
Pitchfork Responds
Meaghan O’Connell, Director of Outreach at Tumblr, has posted her response to a user’s accusation (plus an exclusive response to Tumblr users here on The Rumpus) that Tumblr “stole” their…
Stolen Site?
“I’ve run pitchfork.tumblr.com for almost a year now. I had several posts up and I followed 28 people with the account. All my posts are now gone and my address…
Harold Evans on Journalism’s Roots
Famed British journalist and long-time editor of London’s Sunday Times, Harold Evans’ career of highlighting otherwise buried stories has been documented in his new book My Paper Chase: True Stories…
10 Things You Should Know Before Going on The Daily Show
1. Don’t expect any warm up. Jon Stewart comes into the green room before the show and chats with you for about 3 minutes.
Freedom of (Virtual) Assembly
Well this certainly isn’t your parents’ protest. The group Rethink Afghanistan has “executed a widespread war protest on the White House’s Facebook page.” Learn more at Mashable: “War Protesters Storm…
iTampon Links
“People are making a joke due to unfortunate word associations in the name of Apple’s new tablet, the iPad.” Twitter’s iTampon trending topic page. The Internet’s best period-related iPad jokes.…
What Smart People Are (Still) Saying About Google.cn
As we mentioned earlier, and even earlier than that, the future of Google’s operations in China are up in the air following a security breech targeting human rights advocates’ gmail…
Researchers Show How to Hijack Clicks on Facebook
CNET has a short piece up about a number of security vulnerabilities on Facebook that have recently been demonstrated by researchers — and they’re more serious than the notion that…
What Smart People Are Saying About Google.cn
Have some questions? “Q. and A.: Google and China” with Evan Osnos. The Atlantic’s James Fallows says China is hyper-confident (in their “Bush/Cheney phase”), but that the government has been…
More on Haiti Part 6
Please send all links to poetry@therumpus.net Writers Edwidge Danticat and Simon Winchester are rallying for Haiti. Winchester will be holding a fundraiser at the Manhattan location of Idlewild Books on…