Me Meme

...threat that it will all go on their permanent record? The tension between the archive and the feed puts pressure on “authenticity,” which lingers on as a compass for the...

Public Spaces

...good reads, weird sites, and sharp jokes. Google Reader, the RSS feed aggregator, used to have a button that users could click to let friends see posts from blogs they...

Testing Beyond Control

...Live on Facebook — and He’s Negative.” NBCNews.com. July 14, 2016. The Royal test is the latest instance of a long -- and successful -- line of publicity efforts to...

Don't Be a Stranger

...logic as an underground punk club is from a computer lab? Once upon a time this social network did exist, and it was called Makeoutclub.com. Nobody much talks about Makeoutclub.com...

Narrative of Fragments

...hierarchically organized directory of websites, in 1994. On March 1, 1995, they incorporated the guide as Yahoo.com. In July 1994, Jeff Bezos incorporated Cadabra, an online bookstore; the site went...

Dream Political Party

The daddy archetypes representing different sexual appeals of the dating-simulator game Dream Daddy are reimagined as “dadsonas” of the political, not parenting, type. In RPG style, you take on the role of an overwhelmed outsider trying to make his way through a party and figure out which ideological hottie to go home with.