Posts Tagged ‘internet’
I’m a Psych Major, So I Can Say This
Jesus fucking Christ, another Facebook redesign?
Buy some goddamn ritalin and get that ADD under control already, Zuckerberg.
But… Courier? Still? REALLY?
Pretty!
(Aand now I can read The Awl without my inner designer begging to gouge out my eyes. Yay!!)
‘Ask & Tell’ What, Though?
You’ve gotta admit — the innovativeness and marketing prowess of urban gays is impressive.
How I Finally Learned Something From Emily Gould
For a long time, I detested Emily Gould’s New York Times Magazine story, “Exposed”. I thought it was an overlong, self-indulgent, too insidery, navel-gazing piece of crap that was completely inappropriate for the Times.
But since I started interning at Gawker (which I’d read throughout Emily’s tenure as its editor), I’ve developed a kind of meta-obsession with Gawker itself. So I went on a little nostalgia kick and started reading old posts, studying the former editors’ work, and voyeuristically devouring the sordid drama of Nick Denton’s twisted little media/sociology experiment. Especially circa 2007. Those kids were nuts.
At the same time, I was preparing to turn this blog into more than just a portfolio of my work. I was ready to move beyond the banalities of the LiveJournal I’d kept in high school (Ha!) and commit myself to some serious personal blogging. (Double ha!)
So as I re-read Emily’s piece, I started to view her story in a different light. A more forgiving light. And somehow, it began to resonate with me. I had begun appreciate it on some small level, for reasons I did not yet fully know.
