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Even the word ‘blog’ sounds a little grandma-y now. This whole concept of buzz feels so dated. It’s really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.
Ezra Koenig tells it like it is in our new Vampire Weekend feature story by Carrie Battan. (via pitchfork)
It’s pronounced “Tumblr,” duh. (Also, Carrie is the best.)
BuzzFeed wins.
BuzzFeed takes a McSweeney’s list of fake BuzzFeed lists and actually makes them.
Making a list of 50 Photos of Bill Clinton’s Forehead was exhausting.
This is Internet.
This is pretty great.
The writer of our cover story about the Internet making us all crazy, depressed, and lonely will be hosting a Reddit AMA (where you can ask him anything) at 1pm ET. Here’s his user account. Refresh around 1 for the link. We’ll also update this post once it’s live.
Guys, I think we’ve spent too much time online.
Federal bureaucrats and antipoverty activists who once worried over poor children getting inadequate access to the Internet now fret that those same disadvantaged kids enjoy too much access, wasting untold hours of their time in front of computer and (digital) TV screens. The old “digital divide” supposedly separated technological haves and have-nots; the new “time-wasting divide” splits middle-class kids who consume too much electronic content from impoverished children who consume way too much.
Hey Internet, look! Christmas Cats! (With brilliant captions.)
(This one’s from Patti Lowery)
How Much Does The Internet Weigh?
The answer lies in the mass of a single electron. Watch and be marveled.
Fun Fact of the Day: The Internet has a weight. (Also, I’m allergic to strawberries.)
TDB’s Howard Kurtz takes down the Financial Times for ripping Dan Lyons’ Facebook scoop and giving no credit.
This is more than a matter of journalistic pride. By ignoring the way the story was unearthed here in the States, the FT is distorting what happened. Facebook didn’t just decide to confess to hiring a top public relations firm to plant anti-Google stories in the press at a time when the search giant is trying to become a social media rival. Lyons got Burson Marsteller, which inititally refused to identify its client, to acknowledge that it was working for Facebook, prompting Mark Zuckerberg’s company to admit it was behind the smear effort.
Lyons’ piece acknowledged that he was building on reports from a tech blogger who blew the whistle on a Burson staffer’s offer to ghost an anti-Google op-ed for him, and from USA Today, which wrote about the plot but couldn’t uncover who Burson’s client was. In other words, Lyons provided the key piece of the puzzle but credited those who had already done the spade work.
How hard is that, Financial Times?
The Beast gets meme-ified.
Internet freedom is about defending the space where all these things occur, so that it remains not just for the students here today but for your successors and all who come after you. This is one of the grand challenges of our time.
From Reddit: “A warning to tyrants like Hosni Mubarak: in the digital age, even silence may be recorded. Thank you, Google.” This search was limited to Cairo, Egypt.
(Source: google.com)
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