Archive for August 2010

Publishers as Flashturbators    (2010.08.31)

The Web is old enough that history can repeat itself. What’s happening now with E-books parallels what happened with Web sites in the early Aughties

Orange crush    (2010.08.29)

Worst line-editing of the year    (2010.08.25)

It’s in the most overrated book of the year, The Imperfectionists

‘Super Sad True Love’ coinage    (2010.08.22)

Neologisms in Super Sad True Love Story

Those who fail to learn the lessons of Natalia Ilyin are doomed to repeat them    (2010.08.22)

Design Is History is the new site that perpetuates the misapprehension that “design history” is a sequence of discrete jumps

Why does ‘Cognitive Surplus’ exist?    (2010.08.21)

What the Commentariat Publishing Lifecycle is, means, and does

Richard Florida overgays it    (2010.08.12)

Richard Florida claims gays are “no more… economically productive… than any other group on average,” which is of course false. (Updated)

5    (2010.08.05)

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Print-hostile pages    (2010.08.05)

New York outdoes itself in fucked-up “print-friendly” pages