“I still want to be a cyborg”

“we’ll have a crack team of GIF artists cranking out instant animations of the best debate moments”

“And independent voters? The top term was “LOL,” short for laugh out loud”

“bad photos have found their apotheosis on social media, where everybody is a photographer”

“I am only as secure as the last time I was retweeted”

“everyone else seemed so natural in their tweeting. for me it was agony”

“the friction of the digital divide in academia requires only the slightest irritation to hit a rolling bubbling, um, boil”

“it’s strange to write a serious research proposal & have half of your bibliography be science fiction”

“let’s stop shaming teenagers for exploring sexual imagery through the cell phone shutter, instead of our own lens of 1960s nostalgia”

“Pinterest is now jammed with inspirational quotes, some of which could have been lifted from fortune cookies”

“the hate-blog phenomenon is basically anti-fandom”

“low-tech objects that are the paraphernalia of hipster culture”

“the public assumes that what is printed or pressed or somehow physically produced is of better quality”

“the only way to not be used by the Internet is either to not use it, which is ridiculous, or to make something out of it”

“is Klout trying to smack a glossy veneer of Science™ onto social ranking?”

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