Archive for April, 2008

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

The End of the Standardized Language?

Matt writes, “My friends got me this cake. It’s pretty funny.” And, indeed, it is, as he’s pretty well known for using homonyms on his unedited, un-copy-edited MSM blog.

As blogs move us into a less heavily copy-edited world, I sometimes wonder if we’re moving back into a more 16th and 17th century form of [...]

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Monday, April 21st, 2008

Anybody Recognize the Paper?

Pic via Egotastic not because it’s Jennifer Aniston in a bikini, but because it’s Jennifer Aniston in a bikini reading a newspaper.

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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

We’re All Dailies Now

The New Yorker, the legendary weekly that reads like a monthly, is apparently looking to ramp up and improve its daily offerings. From

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Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Social Networking is Global; Social Networking Programs Aren’t

Via Stuff Indians Like (one of the many spoofs of Stuff White People Like), comes this interesting map of the world of social networking program preferences:

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