20061101Wed
It’s been 43 days since I’ve talked about pirates, which is far too long. I’m certainly not the first to note the hilarious audacity of The Pirate Bay, as their responses to legal threats are certifiable entertainment, but reading the reactions on Digg (whose “news” is fast resembling email forwards of the late 90s) I [...]
20061025Wed
It was neither High Fidelity nor Merlin Mann that inspired the following very important list of why lists are very important, but the surfeit of posts on Digg, Tailrank, and Reddit that are merely compilations of things already known—and, specifically, that these posts are wildly popular. Here’s why.
20060809Wed
Much is written about how incredibly dangerous the new media is. Wikipedia contains inaccuracies! MySpace is full of pedophiles! Craigslist is infested with scams! Of course, much of this is perpetuated by the old media, who are hardly without sin. In fact, a recent situation illustrated to me just how the ecology of new media [...]