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Gideon Grudo and Tyler Krome are cheap journalists. Grudo wrote the open-source story reddit revolts below, with Krome assisting. They want you to reprint, revise, repurpose, or rewrite it – without their consent. Why give away their work? Says Grudo, a former SPJ national board member… reddit is home to hundreds of millions of people who are interacting with media, posting…
In the social media age, the prospect of being socially shamed has become a real site of anxiety for mainstream culture. Jon Ronson has written a book on the topic, and columnists routinely meet their wordcount by repeating cliches about the dangers of Twitter hordes. The primary anxiety seems to be centered on social media…
TL;DR /r/IAmA, /r/AskReddit, /r/funny, /r/Books, /r/science, /r/Music, /r/gaming, /r/history, /r/Art, /r/videos, /r/gadgets, /r/todayilearned, /r/Documentaries, /r/LifeProTips, /r/Jokes, /r/pics, /r/Dataisbeautiful and /r/movies have all made themselves private in response to the removal of an administrator key to the AMA process, /u/chooter, but also due to underlying resentment against the admins for running the site poorly – being…
The furor surrounding the firing of popular Reddit administrator Victoria Taylor took a new turn on Friday, when company CEO Ellen Pao commented on the resulting backlash. After Taylor’s termination, several Reddit boards were set to private by their respective moderators, in a show of protest against the decision. Facing mounting criticism from the link-sharing…
Disney‘s Pocahontas is one of the most revered animated classics of all time, bringing us the love story between the tribe chief’s daughter named Pocahontas and an English settler named John Smith; the iconic ballad performed by high school choirs across the nation, “Colors Of the Wind“; and now Imgur‘s biggest meme: Kocoum.For those of you…
The problem comes at the interface where this notion collides with reality. Names aren’t that simple and the reasons people use names are also not that simple. It’s been covered a thousand times before. We use names that don’t match our ID on Facebook for safety, or because we’re trans, or because we’re just straight…
Remember Ello? Ello first grabbed the attention of the tech world last fall by billing itself as the “anti-Facebook” social network, railing against the Facebook’s targeted advertising and offering up a bare-bones ad-free alternative. But as with most aspiring Facebook challengers, its spotlight dimmed as quickly as it began. Now, in a bid to reclaim…
Remember ello? It’s the social network that advertised itself as the indie alternative to Facebook, but was then unmasked as VC funded by XOXO founder Andy Baio. Now they’re back, with more VC money, and their new ad campaign is just as cluelessly disingenuous as their last one. It’s not really clear what ello is…
Is it possible comment sections aren’t as terrible as many journalists believe? That’s the argument of a new study, “A Tale of Two Stories from “Below the Line”: Comment Fields at the Guardian,” just published in the July issue of The International Journal of Press/Politics. Of course, in the slow-moving world of academia, a “new”…
Slack, maker of extremely expensive professional chatrooms, is annexing online work culture at a stunning rate. The industry narrative doesn’t quite cover it! Sure, a lot of companies are signing up and closing their Campfire chats, their Hipchats and their IRCs. But the thing about Slack that gives you that low dread of unstoppable acceleration…