His first post, on MySpace of all places, is entitled 'Hello, I'm Michael Douglas's Father'. Kirk's current mood, in case you were wondering, is 'sassy'. He has a little sassy emoticon to underline this point.
Women, said the people of 1969, will order clothes from an electronic "console". "What the wife selects on her console, will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console."
Just over 10 per cent of the top magazine editors, as rated by Mediaite, take the time to use Twitter. The statistic was pointed out by Kurt Andersen. Via Twitter. So they won't have seen it.
We told you about the people that suck on Facebook and Twitter and you responded with horror tales about the people you know. Here are some of the best, and we'd love to hear more!
The LA Times today examines how the Seattle Post-Intelligencer segued from print to exclusively online journalism. But blogging — how and why we cover the stories we cover — is going the other way and coming to resemble... newspapers.
*Which means it's probably a marketing ploy for something.
Dear important scientist Tim Berners-Lee: Thank you for inventing the World Wide Web 20 years ago. It's really great and stuff! But were you aware of the crimes committed in your name?
From the hoary old crypts of the most ancient corners of the Internet comes a massively awesome collection of blogs that no one cared about. Like whatever it was that Jakob Lodwick invented, but worse! Each began with one post from some cyber-dreamer, and that one post has been preserved, all on its lonesome, to this…
Now made for masturbating during overlong board meetings or car trips — the iPhone. The burgeoning mobile porn business, which was once confined to slow-loading sepia-tinted Jpegs of flappers in bathing suits, now features all kinds of fun applets for erotic text chatting, "moan tones," and video. The $1.7 billion…
Why not. YouTube will determine the next president and whether we bomb Iran, it might as well shrink James Wood's column inches in the New Yorker. I'm already experiencing the anxiety of a certain kind of influence in watching this ebullient young critic analyze Tom Rob Smith's Child 44. Future belletrists, take…
Boing Boing, the most popular blog for all other blogs to steal fun stories from, ruled Internet conversation about weird distracting things until sites like Digg came along. Now that it's no longer the first place to find a meme, the site is even cooler (which I blame on the authors' dedication to posting whatever…
All the bloggers this weekend were all "Oh no Internet addiction is an illness!" Because an editorialist in the American Journal of Psychiatry says excessive Internet use should be classified as a mental disorder. But that's missing the point. The problem isn't that people overuse the Internet. The problem is that…
The Rickroll prank (you know, you show a link pretending it's something else but it's really the music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up") is just "made you look!" for the web. Worse: It's "sure thing...not!" for the web. That's why it caught on so damn well, because every idiot can enjoy a good laugh…
My favorite Internet tradition is mocking earlier versions of the net, so I loved this video fifteen seconds in, when to demonstrate the power of the Internet an invisible hand typed "coffee" into a search engine called "The Internet Mall(tm)" and a video of JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you" speech…
So, I guess I created an account on Flip.com a while back (probably to pick up high-schoolers), because I just got an e-mail from the social site where teenage girls are begged to express themselves. The site, which was supposed to rival MySpace and Facebook, is now a Facebook app rated lower than the "What disastrous…
The most cloying little web show about disaffected Gen-Yers is moving to Bravo after last night's disappointing premiere on NBC (previously reported by Gawker). Kind of like that slut Lisa! Ha ha, I'm kidding, I've only seen one episode and have no idea what the character arcs are. NewTeeVee, the blog that apparently…
Internet predators aren't stalking unsuspecting kids nearly as much as they're being invited over, according to a study by the University of New Hampshire. Unlike the horrific narrative 20/20 likes to narrate in that annoying dramatic tone, the Internet is pretty safe as long as a kid doesn't think it's okay to talk…
While men dominate YouTube, women are almost twice as likely to use video sites run by TV networks, according to Nielsen Online results reported by the Journal. Before you draw any conclusions about men leading the New Media revolution, remember that they're just watching the Sarah Silverman clip from Jimmy Kimmel.
Signing off from Yahoo!. Fade to black... about 3 hours ago
Celebrating unemployment with a giant margarita at Chevy's. 5 minutes ago [Silicon Alley Insider] (Semi-related: soon-to-be-former Defamer editor Mark Lisanti already started his Tumblr!)
It's a MOLESKINE with a UNICORN on it. You can buy it at ETSY. We hope you're proud of yourself, Tim Berners-Lee. [moleskinerie]
