Insta Nothing
by Choire Sicha Genius: a fake Instapaper bookmarklet so you can click it and not save anything to read later. (via) 2 Comments
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Every Web Action Will Be a "Like" Soon
by Choire Sicha First came the advent of "I READ THIS" on Facebook: "Joe Schmo and 4 other friends recently read articles." Oh did you? That's neat. Sure: the age of automatically reported behavior...
View ArticleThe Joys of Blocking People
by Choire Sicha Dog farts + jet lag feels like the worst hangover I've ever had. Ouch. — Neko Case (@NekoCase) February 9, 2012 Mmm, earlier today someone I follow on Twitter retweeted a famous...
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The Amazing Moral Fables of Pinterest
by Choire Sicha If you're not paying attention to the always incredible goings-on at Pinterest, some recent updates: • Pinterest is perfect for people to find and buy things. That's why this spammer...
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How's Your Internet Bubble? Secretly Crazy-Inflated, That's How!
by Choire Sicha It's been really quiet on the Internet Bubble front, because no one likes that narrative. It's bad for everyone! (Except some people.) But here's a report from close to the startup...
View ArticleLady Executive Leaves Work Daily at 5:30 (Yes, p.m.)
by Choire Sicha Sheryl Sandberg Leaves Work at 5:30 Every Day — And You Should Toomashable.com/2012/04/05/she… — Caitrin O'Sullivan (@CaitrinO) April 9, 2012 "I mean honestly, people, if you don’t...
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The Ninth Circuit: "Lying on Social Media Websites Is Common" (and Not Criminal)
by Choire Sicha Thank the atheist Cylon God once again for the Ninth Circuit: in US v Nosal, yesterday they ruled (PDF) that, among other things, the ridiculous user agreements that we all "sign"...
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The Latest Sad Fate of an Aggregation Serf
by Trevor Butterworth What’s new, you might ask, in another tale of careless youth broken on the galley of journalism? Well, someone in power finally stood up—sort of—for the little guy. In a column...
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The Turntable.fm Story So Far
by Choire Sicha "In an e-mail to Stickybits's investors, the pair explained Turntable and gave them a choice: They could take back what money remained or stick with them. All except one kept the...
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Man Has Horrifyingly God-Awful Blogging Job
by Choire Sicha "He ate another piece of bacon. 8:14 a.m. He tweeted: 'Here. We. Go. Let’s. Do. This.'" —Joe Weisenthal's job at Business Insider sounds terrible! Also, don't you think a Times mag...
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Will Twitter Shut Down This Crazy Thunderclap Experiment Today? Probably!
by Choire Sicha Today's the day that Thunderclap releases its first mass tweet into the wild. Late this morning, almost 2000 people are going to simultaneously Tweet a message from Matt Taibbi. If you...
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Foursquare, Again
by Choire Sicha I don't ever, ever want to have random people "sharing tips" with me or giving me advice about where to go (either inadvertently or directly), because most people have terrible taste,...
View ArticleLadies Have Feelings
by Alex Balk Go here for a bunch of gals getting gabby about the Internet. 5 Comments
View ArticleMeanest, Truest Thing Ever Said About a Website
by Choire Sicha "Every time I scroll down to the comments section of a Deadspin article I feel like I've just tuned into an episode of Sesame Street where The Count has suffered a debilitating stroke....
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One Town, Two Newspapers: Will the Real Digital Innovators Please Stand Up?
by Brett Sokol Another day, another newspaper bankruptcy. This time it was the Journal Register national chain, home to eighteen small dailies including the New Haven Register, and now operating under...
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The Internet Makes You Fat, Mean And Poor
by Alex Balk "According to soon-to-be-published research from professors at Columbia University and the University of Pittsburgh, browsing Facebook lowers our self control…. People who spent more time...
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Debating "Dark Social": Where the Rest of the Internet Is
by Choire Sicha This conversation pursuant to this recent piece on "Dark Social" (that is, sharing via IM or chat or email or IDK, IRC?) is interesting. It started with a look at traffic to the...
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Blogs Snatched By Giant CGI Eagle!!!
by Choire Sicha The Blog Lord Giveth and the Blog Lord Taketh Away. (Well, nine hours later.) 6 Comments
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'Newsweek' Takes Bold Stance Against Tumblr's Struggle for Profit
by Choire Sicha The Tumblr of Newsweek, which still exists, unlike Newsweek, and which is run by the DailyBeast "senior editor for social media," announced a new policy yesterday. "You pin, we...
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Take A Minute To Watch The New Way We Make Web Headlines Now
by Choire Sicha The great menace in headlines in 2011 was that either every headline was "11 Ways to X" or that it was "Y Happens to Z [SLIDESHOW]." You know, whatever our pals at Business Insider and...
View ArticleMan Hates Self, Twitter
by Choire Sicha "It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment it happened — but at some point, Twitter became a dark place." lol LOL — Shani O. Hilton (@shani_o) January 30, 2013 One Matt K. Lewis is very...
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Where Not To Go, But Also Who Not To Go There With
by Choire Sicha OH YES. It's TripAdvisaargh. The name, we should think, is self-explanatory. (via) 6 Comments
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Take An Internet Break To Learn This One Thing About A Popular Web Browser...
by Alex Balk "Mosaic, based on the work of Berners-Lee and the hypertext theorists before him, is generally recognized as the beginning of the web as it is now known. Mosaic, the first web browser to...
View ArticleHere's The One Sex Tip That Will Make You A Skinny Millionaire
by Alex Balk "Publishers resort to all different types of less-than-desirable ways to drive traffic. Buying traffic — or the dark arts of SEO — is part of many publishers’ toolkits. But often the most...
View ArticleHere Is What People Are Doing To Distract Themselves From The Knowledge That...
by Alex Balk Did you wake up this morning bright-eyed and full of joy, ready to embrace the day? Well don't click here. 2 CommentsThe post Here Is What People Are Doing To Distract Themselves From The...
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