“Catfish is Jerry Springer for the social media age”
“Let’s face it: panic about ‘people’ not pairing off is really panic about women not pairing off”
“the idea that technology comes from us, people, is something we are reluctant to accept”
“Stop Calling It ‘Digital Humanities’”
“temporary photography is doing something very interesting with time”
“the way that the Harlem Shake meme seems perfectly designed for the workplace”
“Everybody in the industry wants to see Spotify succeed”
“Who hates free speech? The powerful and the powerless“ more...
“Facebook has certainly taken notice of the desire for impermanence”
“It’s interesting that we now create things specifically to forget”
“networks can be far more tyrannical, opaque, and anti-democratic than hierarchies”
“use online connectivity not to try to define ourselves perfectly but to undo ourselves over and over”
“social media seem to intersect interpersonal sociality and corporate monetization”
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“the Internet is laughing. And Applebee’s is losing a lot of customers”
“People need to worry less about the future of print and worry more about the future of sentences”
“people click Like merely because humans have an irresistible desire to be counted”
“when DRM makes products less valuable, it also makes them less real”
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“Vine’s six seconds feels like an eternity”
“These messages are intended specifically to shame and frighten women out of engaging online”
“Facebook is not *doing* anything to society”
“Why do we photograph the aftermath of misadventure?”
“Plato was right. The efficient and durable externalization of memory makes us personally indifferent to remembrance“ more...
“JSTOR is a rent extraction mechanism that perpetuates fundamental inequalities”
“a ceremonial flyover of three combat drones”
“what is Elsevier going to do with Mendeley that warrants uninstalling it from you computer?”
“Nineteenth century viral culture is quite like today’s Internet culture”
“That was before Apple washed Siri’s mouth out with soap and curbed many of its talents”
“23 women have joined a class-action lawsuit against the “revenge porn” website”
“there is something disturbingly misogynistic about online bullying“ more...
“now that we have a simple tool—and grammar—for looping a half second of video”
“The Internet makes this sort of writer-presence easier, more ubiquitous”
“What’s the point of this app? To forge a connection, or to gamify the dating process”
“I’d like to type in “dentists liked by people who don’t like horror movies”””
“The defining feature of a “real” arcade, however, is that there aren’t really any left”
“digital technologies enable abundant production, watering-down the meaning of an object and/or interaction“ more...
“I think Facebook and Twitter should be prohibited”
“isn’t it time to admit that MOOC providers don’t primarily care about “how learning works?””
“talking about MOOCs in productive ways is getting harder for everyone”
“Every minute a new impossible thing is uploaded to the internet”
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“We’ve become better at choreographing ourselves and showing our best sides to the screen”
“75 percent of the world’s heads of state have a presence on Twitter”
“Forget about bowling alone: In Toffler’s future, we’d all be telecommuting together”
“A quarter million comments land in HuffPost’s assorted in-boxes every day”
“On Snapchat, sexual identity isn’t cemented through a series of boxes & menus”
“using drugged milkshakes to knock out the parents of one of the girls so they could log on to the Internet“ more...
“I’ve created a technique for converting digital audio files into 3D printable 33rpm records”
“IBM predicts that computers will soon have a sense of smell”
“Yes, Randi Zuckerberg, speak to us about human decency”
“the needed reforms, executives at Apple and Foxconn hope and believe, are falling into place”
