Media
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
So now facebook has a phone. Apple now owns several porn domains that could potentially be affiliated with the company’s trademarks. Somehow I doubt they’ll be making their own iPhone porn. The US public is willing to accept experts’ consensus…
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Fleshbot For Sale
“Gawker Media chief Nick Denton told All Things D this morning that Fleshbot ‘Just hadn’t fit for a long long time’ but that he held onto the property ‘because [he was] slow to realize the inevitable.’” First of all, that’s…
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Once More, a Vocabulary Primer
The horrifying crisis unfolding at Penn State reminds us, yet again, of the carelessness of language used when we write about sexual violence.
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Steve Jobs the “Tweaker”
“I’ll know it when I see it. That was Jobs’s credo, and until he saw it his perfectionism kept him on edge.” Malcolm Gladwell examines (what be believes to be) “the real genius of Steve Jobs.”
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Should the FCC carry the Emergency Broadcast System over to social networks? Common sense says yes. It’s easy to forget the Internet actually comes from somewhere, namely data centers like these. This “flirtatious” dress changes the transparency of its fabric…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The government thinks it can track anyone using GPS 24/7 without a warrant… here’s hoping the Supreme Court says differently. Republic Wireless unveils a new, contract-free $19/month cell plan that relies heavily on existing WiFi networks… AWESOME. British computer whizzes begin…
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Once, We Were (Not) Troy Davis And Then We Were Something Else
Life is the one disaster that is also a miracle. Or perhaps life is the one miracle that is also a disaster.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Julian Assange lost his appeal to British courts and is facing extradition to Sweden. Hactivism fail: Even Anonymous won’t take on the Mexican cartels. Playing video games makes you more creative. Don’t worry about the toilet flusher … gas pump…
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Feminist Blogging
“Back in the seventies, feminists touted the slogan ‘the personal is political,’ arguing that women had been trained to dismiss their own struggles as personal matters with no greater meaning. If women could share stories, they would find patterns. They…
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#OWS Roundup
NYPD reportedly telling drunks to “take it to Zuccotti.” Some banks are renouncing their plan to charge debit cards. Winter is coming… and also #OccupyWallStreet has “custom made bicycle generators that charge batteries.” Not only did the protesters’ permit application…
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Almond and Maron
“Author Steve Almond shows Marc that writers can be just as tortured and self-doubting as comedians. The two of them discuss the highs and lows of a writer’s creative process.” Marc Maron, Rumpus friend (who has been interviewed on Rumpus…
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The NYT Offends with its Sunday Book Review of Zone One
A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like an intellectual dating a porn star, right? Well that’s what New York Times book reviewer Glen Duncan thinks. In his Sunday Book Review of Colson Whitehead’s complex new zombie novel, Zone…