“Twitter, in its imposed brevity, seems to affirm the aphorism’s original meaning: be intelligently succinct”
What of Twitter? “Brevity is the soul of wit,” Shakespeare’s Polonius says, issuing the...
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“…some magical place where a total lack of any discernible talent or intelligence or interpersonal skills had never interfered with anyone’s success”
When it finally sunk in that I’m not the next Nabokov, I got pretty...
“Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild slights by putting an absurd amount of energy into plotting meaningless reprisals”
Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild...
“If you feel that these media influence and inform public opinion – and swing elections! – then abandoning Facebook and deleting your account may actually be civically irresponsible”
1. FB promised to be and, in many ways, has become a new public...
“The value of sweating the small stuff, it turns out, depends quite a lot on how much power you have to affect the big stuff”
It would be easy to assume, surveying the national scene, that pettiness is universally...
“Our present panics tend to arrive just as new parts of our economy, culture and politics are reconstituted within platform marketplaces”
The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define,...
Considering vertical vs horizontal perspectives
Before 1930, moving picture aspect ratios were all over the place. But mass distribution...
“Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms…”
Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms: as...
“I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has been an increase in the permissibility of the expressions of anti-Semitism and its amplification by the tools of social media”
I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has...
“…the most significant way in which the Islamic State has exhibited its media savviness has been through its embrace of openness”
…the most significant way in which the Islamic State has exhibited its media savviness...