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August 2014

August 26, 2014
In order to bring more justice into the American criminal justice system, we may all...
August 26, 2014
I work from home, but not because I wanted to stay home with the kids....
August 23, 2014
If you use the Internet in a particular state in India, you might be jailed...
August 22, 2014
There’s a lot of hand-wringing that goes on over the idea that smartphones are making...
August 20, 2014
Twitter has a lot of problems. It doesn’t seem to have the wherewithal to deal...
August 20, 2014
I think that iMortal should have a podcast. The subject matter of the site is...
August 19, 2014
In American counties considered the easiest in which to live, cameras, iPad apps, and jogging...
August 18, 2014
If Facebook’s algorithm is a brain, then Twitter is a stream of conscience. The Facebook...
August 17, 2014
The idea of Apple as a “cult” or “religion” is often expressed somewhat derisively, but...
August 16, 2014
The Facebook algorithm, the “brain” which decides what content to feature, what content to bury,...
August 15, 2014
Alan Jacobs asks us to consider the influence of the first-person shooter video game genre on the minds...
August 14, 2014
“Weird Al” Yankovic was the first “popular music” I ever liked. Well, him and the...
August 13, 2014
If you’re in public relations, journalism, entertainment, or other similar fields, you already know that...
August 11, 2014
I have no idea why he did it. I have no special insight into whatever...
August 11, 2014
Microsoft has a new ad campaign for their tablet-laptop hybrid the Surface Pro 3, which...
August 09, 2014
I’ve moments ago finished The Bone Season, a novel by Samantha Shannon that I quite enjoyed,...
August 08, 2014
Speaking of whether social media can subsume one’s identity, I’m reminded of a piece from last...
August 08, 2014
Are we losing ourselves in social media? A lot of people feel that way, that...
August 06, 2014
In May, the European Union's top court made the controversial ruling that search engines were...
August 06, 2014
Did Andy Ihnatko know I was starting this tech-and-humanism blog? Almost certainly not, but look,...
August 05, 2014
Jeff Jarvis (media critic, journalism professor, co-host of This Week in Google, and warrior in the...
August 05, 2014
Montaigne is a huge influence on my writing, as he exemplifies what I love best...
August 05, 2014
What happens if you play Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" as a...
August 04, 2014
A few weeks ago I came upon perhaps my favorite website ever, Little Girls Are Better At...
August 03, 2014
When I talk about humanism, I’m really talking about compassion. Whatever the tenets of a...
August 02, 2014
Does Jony Ive, head of design at Apple, exist in the Perfect White Heaven of Industrial...
August 01, 2014
People being assholes online is hardly new, though awful people using Twitter as a kind...
August 01, 2014
There's something particularly insidious about homeopathy, isn't there? I can't put my finger on it,...
August 01, 2014
The tech industry's cruel conspiracy for planned obsolescence has now gone too far. I wrote...

July 2014

July 31, 2014
I’ve at times felt some discomfort of the idea of the “genius,” maybe chiefly because...
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