Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

Friday, December 05, 2014

Defecting from The New Republic

Slate, "The Slatest: Your News Companion," "Mass Resignations at TNR Follow Departures of Foer, Wieseltier" by Ben Mathis-Lilley.

Gawker: "White Men Upset Wrong White Man Placed in Charge...", by Leah Finnegan.

National Catholic Reporter, "Distinctly Catholic" blog, "RIP: The New Republic", by Michael Sean Winters (5 Dec. 2014)

What will John MacArthur make of this?

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12 December 2014 update: A USA Today article on the future of newsweeklies.

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14 December update: I just found

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Private/Public

Tanner Flake, learn that whatever you post online is not private.

That also goes for all the Twitterheads who verbally attacked a Mexican-American boy (who was a big hit on America's Got Talent, incidentally) for singing the national anthem.



Moreover, Tanner (and son of Nevada congressman Joe Heck, and others) are giving Max Blumenthal another chance to gloat (see above).

Reading Joey Heck's tweets (which as of last night are still up and open to the public), I find most of them the typical gripes of a white middle class teenage boy: boring teachers, tough sports practices, etc. The racist and homophobic comments are probably no worse than those one hears in passing. Mainly, I hope Joey and Tanner, et al. shed their ignorance as they mature.

Sunday, June 03, 2012

The Dial-up Modem Sound

Looper, "Modem Song", The Geometrid (2000). I first heard (and heard of) this song, which samples the sound of a modem, and performer last night when it played on MC (MusicChoice) 33.




The dial-up modem sound explained.




Monday, April 26, 2010

Kunstler: Virtual World Isn't the Real World

Episode 108 of the KunstlerCast: The Virtual Realm vs. the Authentic.

It's ironic that this is broadcast via the Internet, but still well worth a listen.

Relevant to the topic: Neil Postman's Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

The Ocean of Babel

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/12/22/internet-media-television-oped-cx_mk_1223kaylan.html

Interesting essay in Forbes about the Internet fragmenting everything. I'll have to read it more thoroughly but can, right now, disagree that the 'Net merely feeds users' tastes and reinforces their previously held ideas. Some things I just wouldn't have discovered without going online.