technology
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jacob Wren
Jacob Wren discusses his newest novel, Polyamorous Love Song, the relationship between art and ethics, and whether Kanye West is a force for good in the art and music world.
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The Web Isn’t Nirvana (But You Can Get All Their Albums For Free)
On February 26, 1995, just about twenty years ago, Newsweek published an article by Clifford Stoll called “Why the Internet Won’t Be Nirvana.” In it, Stoll provides a litany of faults to be found in the nascent web. Although there’s…
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Book Covers Judge Back
The Guardian reports on a playful man bites dog story from Dutch design firm Moore: a book that judges potential readers by their covers. The prototype uses facial recognition to identify expressions, and will only unlock the book if it…
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Weekly Geekery
Margaret Atwood only tweets 10 minutes a day. What is the true cost of caring? Crowdsourcing is not the brave new world we imagined. Can funny tweets change the world? The Internet isn’t forever. But can it be? “The Netflix…
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The New Silence
Michael J. Gaynor visits Green Bank, the West Virginian town without wi-fi: In Green Bank, you can’t make a call on your cell phone, and you can’t text on it, either. Wireless internet is outlawed, as is Bluetooth. It’s a…
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Weekly Geekery
Is this where digital media is headed? When your body is tracked. Gender, power, privilege, and technology. What did you talk about on social media in 2014? Publish or perish: Amazon edition.
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Weekly Geekery
Building an academic audience. The technology of your childhood. Academic innovation and the blame game. Pain and your brain and gain. When Reddit and journalism collide.
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Weekly Geekery
What do machines take from us? Hacking the police. Saving Egyptians. Do headlines change the way we read? The Internet is real.
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The Rumpus Interview with Damien Ober
Damien Ober discusses the Declaration of Independence, Internet viruses in the eighteenth century, and his new novel Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America.
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Weekly Geekery
If you are a white man, your Internet is different than other internets. Hackers are going offline and embracing print. Content moderators keep your Internet from being worse. A comprehensive history of the reviled banner ad. Facebook is changing journalism.…
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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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A Modern-Day Typewriter
The personal computer may have revolutionized the way writers write, but distractions from the Internet and social media may not make it the ideal tool for writing. Designer Adam Leeb has created a hybrid typewriter called a Hemingwrite. Long battery life,…