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Less Face, More Book for These Reclusive Authors
Though it can be hard to remember between tweeting at your favorite writer and joining a Facebook event page for a reading, there was a time when many authors led reclusive lives with minimal self-promotion. Bookish has rounded up a…
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FUNNY WOMEN #97: The Whitest Album
It was a time in my life when I was frequently “tagged,” along with other Netizens who seemed to keep in touch and do good works. I did no good works, but I tried to keep in touch.
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I Internet, Therefore I am!
What defines a person’s existence? A photo ID or their Internet activity? It’s a question that has been losing its irony lately. There’s the news of a traveling couple that allegedly went missing in Perú but in actuality was just…
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The Sexism That Makes Facebook Run
When Katherine Losse’s The Boy Kings, a book about the sexist culture she encountered while working at Facebook during its early days, came out, Melissa Gira Grant paid attention. Grant had worked for a Silicon Valley gossip blog during the same…
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Is Facebook’s new “feature” extorting small organizations?
Many businesses recently noticed that although their reported “likes” may have increased, only a portion of their posts were actually reaching their followers. Now, in order for organizations to reach their original Facebook fan base, they have to pay Mr.…
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Trouble In Nipple Paradise
The New Yorker recently posted a cartoon which features a naked, and post-coital, Adam and Eve to their Facebook page. What resulted was a kerfuffle between the magazine and social media site over their nudity regulation policies. Specifically, Facebook took issue…
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Where Are You Reading?
The answer for me, in this case, is among a group of statues on the Drake University campus in Des Moines, IA. I’m reading from our June Poetry Book Club selection, Allan Peterson’s Fragile Acts. I’ve posted video of this…
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Abraham Lincoln: Facebook Inventor
In 1845, Abraham Lincoln tried–and failed–to patent the The Springfield Gazette, a personal paper with striking similarities to our modern day Book of Faces. Here’s the full story. “He went on to propose that ‘each Man may decide if he…
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TPM Switches to Facebook Comments
In an interesting move, popular political site Talking Points Memo will begin using Facebook comments as their main commenting system. TPM Editor John Marshall explains the decision here. “…To make an admittedly long story short, we’re switching to Facebook comments…
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On Pregnancy and Privacy and Fear
My husband, Devan, wants to know when he can stop lying to everyone he cares about. He’s talking about the baby, the fact that we’re having one (if all goes well) in early October.
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Mass Unfriending
“The idea of ‘cleaning out’ Facebook friends is getting more popular: The percentage of people unfriending other Facebook members rose from 56 percent in 2009 to 63 percent in 2011. In gross terms, 158 million people were unfriended in 2009,…