Mystical Idiots
...rejected or ignored anymore — not when everyone can publish online instantly. Authors have disppeared, replaced by a legion of keystroke laborers, shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the...
Shoot Hip or Die
...it. *** The cosmic significance of Hipsta/gram is not physical. It ages digital photos for distribution in a digital world. But nothing really gets older online; the only aging of...
Beauty Blogosphere 11.30.12
...who models men's clothes, and Liu Xianping, the 72-year-old man in China who models women's clothes for his granddaughter's online boutique. Worn Through gives the buzz around these two a...
Thinking bad
...writing conspicuously lacks the disingenuous deference that a lot of online writing adopts, always aware of itself as potential personal-branding copy, potential social-network seeding. Dery's arch-outsider tone is a relic...
Sunday Reading
...all at once" "the consistency in online iterations of the travelers’ gaze" "the Horse e-books fiasco suggests that we are more than ready to mistake bots for humans and vice...
Open Wide
...And now, as massively open online courses bring the rhetoric of digital openness to education and Web-based startups are making it easy to share apartments and cars and unused parking...
Inside the Movies
...Interiors is an online journal, published on the 15th of each month, in which films are analyzed and diagrammed in terms of space. Interiors focuses on how space...
H8
...online prominence. As trolls and cyberbullies emerge as society’s new bêtes noires, “Don’t read the comments” is necessary advice for the thin-skinned—which, it turns out, describes most of us. We’re...
Turn Down for What?
...she can go online and lease it to her neighbors. It’s the same thing neighbors have always done, but rationalized and better suited for a population that’s used to relations...
Sunday Reading
...Be An Indian Giver’ Massive boulder narrowly misses car during landslide in Taiwan Alan Lomax’s incredibly massive archive of American blues music is coming online ‘this is the stupidest, most...
Sunday Reading
...industry This Militarized Empty Lot The Growing Iranian Military Behemoth Why Occupy Oakland Keeps Capturing Headlines The Myth of the Rational Insurgent Do You Like Online Privacy? You Might Be...
Joe Cool
...need Twitter. Its Instagram is private, for friends-only. It would seem like this strategy could backfire with millennials, who are less likely to privilege IRL over online, if they even...
Sunday Reading
...euphemism. We are instead “expanding access”” “Just as CafePress can sell you a customized T-Shirt, why shouldn’t OKCupid aspire to sell you a customized partner?” “use online connectivity not to...
Talking Like a “Princess”: What Speaking Machines Say About Human Biases
...can tell you where to find the nearest sushi restaurant without having to look it up online. This same technology can aid people who may or may not also have...
Comfortably Alone
...genuine. A 2010 study, “Shyness and Online Social Networking Services,” by Marquette University psychologists Levi Baker and Debra Oswald, confirms the social network’s potential to mitigate shyness, finding “immediate benefits...
The Standardized No. 2 Pencil Test
...ago, I found myself putting a pencil underneath my breast to determine whether I was “sagging,” a tip I’d read somewhere online (if it’s online it’s true!). As I—an adult...