Internet
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Weekly Geekery
We have the technology, so where is the free time? Writing a better future. Women, the Internet and games. More corrosive than bleach, ammonia and your bathtub. The Internet goes back to the future. Keep your pants on, computers are…
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Are video games the new social commentary? Are we ready to give them the weight of other media? The Internet is fomenting another revolution. Librarians: bespectacled superheroes for your rights. Growing a library. A book written pre-Internet, sheds light on…
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Listing Back in Time
Turns out that the “listicle”, the undisputed yet controversial protagonist of online journalism, is way older than the Internet! As The Morning News reports, the New York Times started to publish “some facts about…”-styled features in the late 19th century.
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Smart phones are tracking your perfect student. The important warnings of sci-fi’s dystopian tales. Because you are interested in the Loch Ness monster. Online rumors and lies and the science of stopping them. Making hard choices? There is an app…
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Attention Spans Fall, Short Fiction Rises
That is not to say that normal books will decline. Of course they won’t. There will always be a place for big, satisfying stories to burrow through. But it seems that the rise of short stories are partly caused by…
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Reading Incompetent
Are we right to be nostalgic for a time before the internet when we could just read? Katy Waldman, writing for Slate, wonders if we might be misremembering things. I also realize, typing this confession of pathological distractibility, that I may…
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Sprose Poems and Flarf
Dan Piepenbring has had a bee in his bonnet about the spam comments they get over at the Paris Review Daily—”they’re by turns,” he says, “ludic, cryptic, disquieting, emotional, and inadvertently profound”—so fascinating, in fact, that he has kept a…
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Why You Should Read the Comments
A profile of classicist Mary Beard at The New Yorker describes how Beard’s career in Britain brought her into the public eye. Beard gave a well-known lecture titled “Oh Do Shut Up Dear!” about how women (in literature and in…
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The Internet Hates Female Writers
More than 5 percent of the messages a woman receives online will be abusive or derogatory in nature, on average. Piers Morgan, whom researchers rank as the No. 1 receiver of hate tweets per day, gets 8.4 percent negative comments…
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Cover Prices
Printing pricing information on book covers has long been a standard practice to help track inventory. The suggested pricing also helps increase the perceived value of books. The internet, especially Amazon, has changed that perception of value leading some booksellers…
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Weekly Geekery
Video game anti-heros. Technology is making everything beautiful. One way technology is making everything awesome (as discussed above): A video of deans losing their cool. Another opinion: Get technology out of school. Forget your soul. What happens to your e-books…
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Social media, journalism, Ferguson, and challenging power. The Internet cannot have nice things. We’re all horses. So, where’s our Black Beauty? The nature of creativity. You guys, you guys, Buzzfeed isn’t the devil. Honestly. Is that robot a better writer than…