A Network of Support
Rachael Levy writes in Slate: “If you’re looking for WiFi at the South by Southwest tech conference this week, instead of heading to a cafe or bumming off of a neighbor, you might just...
Tagged: internet
ALL YOUR FACEBOOK ARE BELONG TO US.
So now, if you’re applying for a job, or applying for an athletic scholarship—and Lord knows what else to come—they want to know what you’ve put up on your Facebook pages. Not just the...
In Which I Discuss Jonathan Franzen’s Remarks at Length
Speaking recently at the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia, American novelist, Jonathan Franzen, attacked what he identifies as the impermanence of ebooks. His following remarks are what Andrew Sullivan recently dismissed as “Wieseltierian piffle,”
On Twitter and Language
Ralph Fiennes asks, “Is Shakespeare relevant,” in an age of tweets and texts. In response to Fiennes-as-Luddite, E.D. Kain launches into a virulent defense of new technology and language’s continuing evolution. However, I think...
Odds and Ends
I wanted to quickly highlight Publius’ response to my post the other day on net neutrality. It’s a useful response that reinforces a key point that I was trying to make: if “reduced government...
Google’s Responsibility
Andrew Sullivan flags a noble-sounding quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “The internet is the strongest force for individual self-expression ever invented. Governments around the world, even democratically elected, have difficulty with [the flow...
