Recent Internet Columns

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Monday, November 16 2009

What’s More Dangerous on the Web—Hackers or Hacks?

By Liz Colville

Content producers have the power to be whomever they want, but if they let themselves be dictated too much by factors like Google, page views, and ad revenue, they end up simply joining a droning, mundane chorus of mediocrity.

(more Backslash)

Wednesday, September 9 2009

Digital Downsizing: CD to MP3 the Hard Way

By Glenn McDonald

When paring down your music collection, is it OK to prune songs off classic albums? An aesthetic (and moral) dilemma...

(more PopShots)

Monday, August 31 2009

The (Indie) Music Industry Is All Right

By Liz Colville

The media is too preoccupied with the funeral arrangements of the mainstream music industry to celebrate the life that is happening elsewhere.

(more Backslash)

Monday, August 10 2009

Your Brain is the New Factory Floor

By Rob Horning

"[M]ore and more, 'production' -- that word my fellow economists have worked over for generations -- has become interior to the human mind rather than set on a factory floor..."

(more Marginal Utility)

Monday, July 27 2009

Teens Don’t Use Twitter (and Why Should They?)

By Liz Colville

Star intern Matthew Robson’s report on teen Internet use has one key takeaway: for teens, the Internet is fun, and that might be all that it is.

(more Backslash)

Wednesday, July 15 2009

15 Second Theater Presents…

By Glenn McDonald

PopShots introduces 15 Second Theater -- radically distilled dramatic readings designed to accommodate the contemporary attention span.

(more PopShots)

Monday, June 15 2009

Surfing Alone: Is Digital Technology Destroying Relationships?

By Liz Colville

On the Internet, we must continually ask ourselves what we are doing, to borrow Twitter's slogan, which sounds at turns like a taunt, a greeting, and an admonishment from God.

(more Backslash)

Monday, June 1 2009

I’m in UR Culture, Rewriting UR Bible…

By Jennifer Byrne

The outrageous and mysterious popularity of LOLCats has provided an updated take on the personification of cats, as well as a bizarre new translation of the Bible.

(more Pop Osmosis)

Monday, May 18 2009

Whither MySpace?

By Liz Colville

Like good nightclub promoters, MySpace sought out the ladies, then created an experience that everyone enjoyed. But is the party coming to an end?

(more Backslash)

Monday, April 20 2009

Human Optimization: ‘The New York Times’ Love Affair with Headlines

By Liz Colville

Search engine optimization (SEO) has sidled into the reading experience unbeknownst.

(more Backslash)

Thursday, April 2 2009

Far Cry 2: The Heart of Darkness Game

By L.B. Jeffries

This is a game that is incessantly hostile. It is constantly pushing the player to become more efficient at destruction.

(more Moving Pixels)

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