Tag: internet

31 Mar

Origins of our Communication: William Bastone

The man behind The Smoking Gun recounts his first experiences online

03 Mar

Origins of our Communication: John Kricfalusi

The Ren & Stimpy creator on how the Internet has revolutionized his work and the animation business

06 Feb

Origins of Our Communication: Mister Quickly, Amazon Epicurean

For the second edition of the Origins of Our Communication series, Gabe Levinson interviews Amazon Epicurean Mister Quickly about the Internet and James Coburn.

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?

21 Jan

The Origins of Our Communication: BibliOdyssey’s Paul K.

In the first in a series, Gabriel Levinson interviews BibliOdyssey curator Paul K. about how the Internet has affected his life.

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.

30 Nov

Ten Things Punk Could Learn From The Open-Source Movement

In this day and age of big-budget punk, Open Source Software offers a lot of object lessons in how to do things right (once again).

27 Sep

Unsigned and indie bands: Please improve your web presence. Here’s how.

In the various music-related roles that I have encompassed over the past few years (musician, bandleader, freelance writer, publicist, show promoter and blogger) I have spent a fair amount of time browsing band websites and reached a critical mass navigating band sites that are ugly, anti-functional, slow-loading and profoundly frustrating to the people they are [...]

20 Sep

Can Gapers Block Topple the Tribune Empire?

Hooray for excellent Chicago culture site Gapers Block, which has got the execrable Tribune Company shaking in their boots–at least according to an October filing with the FCC in which the mercenary news empire claimed that competition from sites like Gapers Block undermined their media dominance, rendering ownership restrictions on the company obsolete.
Free Press’ [...]

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 [...]