Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Monday, June 16th, 2008
CNN:
Passing notes in study hall or getting your best friend to ask a boy if he likes you or, you know, LIKES you, is so last century. Nowadays, teenagers are snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones and sending them to their boyfriends and girlfriends.
Many of these pictures ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Jon Taplin has a post today on journalism’s future (a topic about which he's uniquely qualified to address).
Everyone knows the future of journalism is on the web, but just putting the New York Times print edition on the web is not transformative.
I think what is transformative is the work Frontline, ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Emily Gould (of Gawker fame) has a cover story appearing in this Sunday’s New York Times magazine.
A manic-depressive romp through panic attacks, wrecked romantic relationships, and schizophrenic seclusion, it traces her rise and fall as an Internet celebrity. Simultaneously rewarded and reviled—psychologically, financially, socially, even romantically—for being herself, she became ...
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