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The End of Solitude [must read]

Got an extraordinary kick in the pants from William Deresiewicz’s article in The Chronicle titled “The End of Solitude: As everyone seeks more and broader connectivity, the still, small voice speaks only in silence.” He writes of how text messaging, myspace, facebook, and twitter have eliminated idleness, personal time, and self-reflection. We have forgotten how [...]
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Myspace brings out the best in people

There’s been 360 priceless comments on an article I wrote about myspace, and the maelstrom of inarticulate myspacers throwing down words will likely continue. Here’s a recent gem: ok , 1st of all yes im emo , 2ndly FTW i mean that in a specific way , 3rd i am a manic depresant , im not [...]
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Thinking about Photos

I’m overwhelmed with a lot of aspects of New York. But when I think of what I want to photograph, it’s hard to think about what I wanna capture. After spending 21 days as a real resident of Brooklyn, NY, I definitely could see more to get that “critical distance” to finally start taking meaningful [...]
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+photos: Enter the Scorpion Pit – Psychadelic Horseshit

New fotos for new fun.  http://myspace.com/psychedelichorseshit and Enter the Scorpion Pit  caused:
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Me, You, Spitzer, and Dupre

Regrettably, the identity of Eliot Spitzer’s prostitute has gotten out, the Smoking Gun has some photos, and the e-trolls have plastered her myspace page with some amazing things. At least a million people have visited Ashley Alexandra Dupr?©’s myspace page so far according to the play count on one crappy song she put up [...]
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Content and Editors will always be friends: The Trouble with Social Media

(update: The Issue has closed its doors. wah) Crowdsourcing is another word for clown sourcing. Things have to change. Digg is filled with lolcats and misspelled link descriptions. It’s like Web 2.0 run by monkeys. Google constantly fights the capitalistic art of search engine optimization, making true content discovery more difficult. We have a problem. There’s [...]
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Best of 2007 – And I still don’t know what Moneydick truly means

By a large margin, my article on the emo creature is the most popular this year, with over 50,000 hits. Second place goes to an ancient article titled ‘A scientific Approach to Myspace’s Failure.’ For some reason, most visitors to my site are based in London and Tokyo. I’m sorry if I’ve neglected any American English [...]
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The Internet Hierarchy of Needs

Please visit VortexDna (The Internets Hierarchy of Needs) to check out their adaptation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for the internet user. It’s a great starting point for coming face to face with what all this internet saturation means for personal fulfillment. I immediately thought of a friend of mine who doesn’t really ‘get [...]
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Coming to terms with oneself as a blog is the first step towards humanization…

     I’m worried that It’s been at least two months since I’ve posted in text-only mode. This may mean I rely too much on images or videos to do my explanatory work—or maybe something worse—that I’m too afraid to create something myself. And this brings me to my point. If I’ve learned anything from blogging these [...]
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Modern Music Copyright – Sending Samplers Underground

Came across a very informative post about modern copyright problems in the music arena today at Geek News Central. Here’s why I like: The justification for copyright as it applies to music is that it encourages innovation. The argument goes that if people have protection for their creation then they can gain the financial benefit [...]
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