Tag: analysis

07 Mar

Clarksdale Mill Blues

An explication and exploration of John Dudley’s blues classic

18 Feb

The Book of Jobs That People Won’t Read

Steve Jobs’ declaration that nobody reads anymore is on one level correct, and on another, absolutely bonkers.

01 Feb

Lego is our Rosebud: Recursive Nostalgia and the Web

Has there ever been a time during which adults gazed at their own navels and tried to recapture their youth as the Internet era?

23 Jan

Strictly Leakage

Record labels are trying to plug album leaks by all means necessary. Will going to war against writers do the trick?

04 Jan

Four Tedious Online Arguments To Abandon in 2008

French poet French Valery famously said, “everything changes but the avant-garde.” The same could be said of the recurring pet arguments online.

13 Dec

Can’t Tie a Bow Around A Pile Of…

Let the story of Microsoft’s doomed Plays For Sure be a cautionary tale to those who support DRM.

11 Dec

You May Be Right, But You’re Still An Asshole

Does the insurgent atheist movement need a better public relations team?

07 Dec

Yellow Journalism 2.0

Why we should fear the Gawker-ization of news media.

26 Sep

Bukowski OK, Clowes Not?

If there’s one group I never envy it would be teachers–I can think of few more underpaid individuals who are at the mercy of the alarmism that grips parents in aggregate. A group whose livelihoods depend on ill-defined and constantly shifting standards of what is deemed acceptable by community standards. It makes for odd, confounding [...]

18 Sep

Lies, Damned Lies and Uncontectualized Generalizations about ‘Youth Habits’

Mark Glaser at PBS’ generally-excellent media blog Mediashift breaks down the two major camps in the debate over the print-to-digital transition. He makes the distinction of older readers who still prefer the tactile appeal of print (among other factors) and younger readers who prefer the networked, get-it-anywhere-for-free qualities of Internet content. He’s not wrong about [...]