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Theses in tweetform (2nd series) 23 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
21. Recommendation engines are the best cure for hubris. 22. Vines would be better if they were one second shorter. 23. Hell is other selfies. 24. Twitter has revealed that brevity and verbosity ar...
Automating the feels 21 Aug 2013 | 12:04 am
It’s been hard not to feel a deepening of the soul as the palette of online emotion signifiers has expanded from sparse typographic emoticons to colorful and animated emoji. Some cynics believe that e...
Nudge this 10 Aug 2013 | 12:34 am
“This has been a great era for the study of error,” David Brooks writes today. “We know that if you ask people what movie they want to see next week, they’re likely to mention a classy art film. But, ...
The end of print foretold 9 Aug 2013 | 11:05 pm
From Octave Uzanne’s essay “The End of Books,” published in Scribner’s Magazine in 1894: What is my view of the destiny of books, my dear friends? The question is interesting, and fires me all the mo...
The flattening of e-book sales 6 Aug 2013 | 02:48 am
In a post on the first day of this year, I noted the surprisingly rapid decline in e-book sales growth over the course of 2012. The trend appears to be continuing this year. The Association of America...
Name dump 4 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
My next book, as previously announced in these pages, is called The Glass Cage. It’s still in the works, but here’s a preliminary cast of characters: Wiley Post William Carlos Williams Norbert Wien...
Absence of Like 1 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
We have already suggested, in an earlier installment of The Realtime Chronicles, that “that our new transcendentalism is one in which individual human operatives, acting in physical isolation as nodes...
The fabled Lothlórien steelhead 30 Jun 2013 | 11:09 pm
I know little about Sean Parker’s fairyland wedding and care less. If a couple, seeking an experience that is “spiritual, though not overtly religious,” decides to tie the knot in an ersatz “Lothlóri...
Prism and the new society 29 Jun 2013 | 01:03 am
Earlier this month, in a piece for Dezeen, Sam Jacob offered a thoughtful and provocative take on the NSA’s Prism program of internet surveillance. In an argument reminiscent of Evgeny Morozov’s criti...
On the degeneration of youth 27 Jun 2013 | 07:37 pm
And they say that Facebook is going out of style. via
