Friday, April 27 2012
In Defense Of… Cutting the Cord on Conventional Cable Television
With more and more websites developing original programming and cable companies raising prices each year, there has never been a better time to turn away from your television and toward your computer.
Tuesday, March 13 2012
Metric Madness
Our obsession with brackets and rankings -- in everything from NCAA March Madness to soup -- reflects a desire to give some order to the world, to quantify things that are not generally thought of as quantifiable.
Tuesday, January 24 2012
Navigating the SOPA Soap Opera
The most frustrating thing about the controversial new copyright legislation making its way through Congress? It lacks creativity.
Friday, January 6 2012
The 2011 Looking Glass Awards: Anger Is An Energy
Welcome to the 2011 Through the Looking Glass awards, the Anger Is An Energy edition. This was the year the whole earth shook, sending shock waves in all directions. We don't mean to imply that the seismic shifts were of equal magnitude: not every violent disturbance registered the same on our Richter scale.
Wednesday, January 4 2012
My Own Private Amazon
You’re a clever Casanova, Amazon. You knew if you could win my love with books, there’d be no stopping us.
Thursday, December 8 2011
Monday, December 5 2011
Subversive Sexology!: A Conversation with Annie Sprinkle!
With a pure heart and a heavy dose of body politic rebellion, Annie Sprinkle re-invents ecology in the age of eroticised digital culture.
Wednesday, November 30 2011
Hard to Make a Living: Kickstarter and Comics Creators
Comics writers and artists are turning to Kickstarter both to fund specific projects and to buy themselves time to create.
Friday, November 4 2011
Occupy Everywhere
The Occupy Wall Street and the 99% movements have gone viral. We are everywhere, indeed.
Tuesday, October 11 2011
One Weekend, Thirty Geeks, Five Projects: ‘Hacking’ for a Good Cause
How a group of people hacked in to start-up culture to change the world.
Thursday, September 15 2011
Stop Tweeting Sh%! and Buy This
They say art imitates life, but so does advertising. What does that mean when we live our lives online?
Tuesday, September 13 2011
Transforming the Metamorphosis
While Atanes's film comes across as somber and unintentionally funny, and the Capaldi film is bizarre and outright amusing. Both do a brilliant job of capturing the surreal, dark mood that The Metamorphosis is cocooned in.
Friday, August 19 2011
Comedy, Technology and DVD Extras: In Defense of a Dying Format
Media formats come and go, subject to the gale-force winds of technology and the retail market. Me, I'm still clinging to my Monty Python collections on VHS.
Friday, August 12 2011
Monday, July 25 2011
Frustrated Fantasies: Misperceptions of Fandom and ‘Gone With the Wind’
The value of fandom is often underestimated. Rather than the stereotyped burnt-out housewives or socially inept teenagers that obsessively and indiscriminately consume popular culture, fans are active agents.
Wednesday, May 25 2011
What’s the Value of Ownership in the Age of Cloud Computing?
My fiancée and I will soon move across the country with whatever will fit in our Honda Civic. This has brought up some discussions about which possessions are truly worth keeping.
Tuesday, April 5 2011
Kickstart the Presses
In the past month, two friends of mine have undertaken major print projects. How are they covering the costs of what some might call a foolish endeavor? By going online for funding, of course.
Monday, February 7 2011
Why Your Facebook Friends Don’t ‘Like’ You
Is your social network giving you the cold shoulder? There may be a reason you're turning off your online friends.
Monday, January 10 2011
Instant (Mixed) Messaging: How to Keep Online Chats from Becoming Personal Spats
Instant messaging is a quick and convenient way to chat, but a lot can be lost in translation.
Monday, November 22 2010
Breaking Up is Hard to Do…Online
Does changing your relationship status online have to mean digital drama?
