AltWeeklies Wire
LOL, OIC, and WTF at ROFLThingnew
Meet the latest academic discipline and realm for cultural criticism: Internet culture studies.
East Bay Express |
Elsa Kim |
09-10-2008 |
Tech
Artists and Others are Using YouTube for More Than Just Home Videosnew
The biggest video-sharing website isn't just for lame home videos or amateur soft-core porn anymore: San Diego artists are using it as a new medium for what they're calling "X-stream Dadaism."
San Diego CityBeat |
Kinsee Morlan |
08-20-2008 |
Art
The Human Life Extension Movement Sees a Glorious Future for Us Allnew
People involved with the loosely connected movements of life extension, transhumanism and singularitarianism think we're soon going to be able to extend our lives almost infinitely. And they're working feverishly to survive into that golden age. They're willing to pop pills and radically reduce how much they eat just to live a bit longer.
New Haven Advocate |
Adam Bulger |
08-12-2008 |
Culture
Forget Murky Coffee Dates -- Romantic Evasiveness Has Peaked Onlinenew
The entire discourse of "dating" today reminds me of what Roland Barthes said of text when he proclaimed the death of the author: "Everything is to be disentangled, nothing deciphered; the structure can be followed, 'run' (like the thread of a stocking) at every point and at every level, but there is nothing beneath."
NOW Magazine |
Jacob Scheier |
07-28-2008 |
Culture
The Something Store Restores Suspense to the Webnew
While we may enjoy the detailed Mapquest directions, the thorough Hotels.com reviews, the "most e-mailed" New York Times articles, we still yearn for mystery, too. Or at least the idea of mystery. And that's why the Something Store exists. For $10, shipping included, this online enterprise will send you something in a plain brown package with a large question mark on it.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Greg Beato |
07-07-2008 |
Tech
How to Make Money on the Internetnew
With the economy in a free fall and jobs disappearing faster than the bubbles in a Red Bull, it was a relief to drop in on the third Seed Conference and get a jolt of high-energy confidence about the future.
Chicago Reader |
Deanna Isaacs |
06-24-2008 |
Tech
A Small North Carolina City Leads the Way to Faster, Cheaper Internet Accessnew
The municipal broadband movement fills the big gap between the internet speeds Americans need and those they're getting from a profit-driven telecommunications industry. The city of Wilson is on the cutting edge of that movement. It is among the newest of 44 publicly owned fiber networks serving more than 60 communities across the country.
Note to Self: Don't Download Porn at Worknew
Three local university employees are out of a job after a state investigation revealed they had illegally downloaded materials, including porn, on work computers.
Three Internet Myths That Won't Dienew
The internet is free, accessible, and dangerous? Hardly.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
06-18-2008 |
Tech
Has Social Networking Created a Monster?new
It's easy to let our Luddite tendencies overwhelm us and lead us to think those on the cutting edge of technology have got some sort of neurotic obsession that needs a cure. Facebook took a while to catch on; so did cell phones, so did email, so did laptops and software and floppy disks and modems and faxes and IBM Selectrics.
New York Press |
Bobby Julian |
06-12-2008 |
Tech
Twitter Beat the U.S. Geological Survey to China Earthquake Infonew
Earthquakes are notoriously difficult to predict, but the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) does an admirable job of tracking tectonic activity across the world and providing early warnings for people in quake zones. The USGS was able to report on the Chinese event after only a few minutes. Still, it was no match for Twitter.
NOW Magazine |
Joseph Wilson |
05-27-2008 |
Tech
Inside the Internet Dystopianew
Increasing constraints on freedom to innovate with technology cloud the web's future, as Jonathan Zittrain points out his the new book The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
05-14-2008 |
Tech
