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Notes from the Platform's Edge
1. In recent weeks I’ve gotten a handful of notes from people letting me know that something or other is up with websites they work at or run. “You have probably heard this from everyone, but everyone...
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The Awl Podcast: Clay Shirky
The internet has been destroying and reconstituting the media for more than two decades: first, slowly and in parts; now, quickly and totally. For readers, viewers, and passers-by, it’s been strange....
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Everything Is Selling
“I’m a brand, albeit a very small one and in a limited domain. So are most national journalists I know, especially those who cover tech, media, politics and sports. With the help of the social...
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Friday Reading Roundup
Things I read this week and liked. Flickr Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about...
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Things I Read This Week And Liked
Friday reading roundup. Flickr It is here that the contemporary remix of that Elvis song “A Little Less Conversation” begins playing. Yes, that version you’re thinking of. Jim plays a Dance Dance...
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Things I Read This Week And Liked
Friday reading roundup Flickr As I was writing this column, I came across a post by my friend Lauren Hoffman, a writer for Vulture and Cosmopolitan: “I’ve made many real/good friends on Twitter but I...
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Things I Read This Week and Liked
Friday reading roundup Flickr The moment was so great in magnitude that it even made Beyoncé weak in the knees. As Barack Obama, donning a perfectly tailored white-tie tuxedo, shared his first dance as...
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Things I Read This Week And Liked
Friday reading roundup Flickr Over popcorn shrimp and a Clean Mean Salmon Roll, Paris agrees to address this issue for what she says will be the only time. Paris Jackson: Life After Neverland There’s...
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A Call For Submissions
Pitch, please. Image: Jonathan Cohen Hi friends. I’ve been at The Awl just over one year. Can you believe it?? Shut up, I haven’t accidentally tweeted as The Awl in MONTHS!! Anyway I’ve found a nice...
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When The Video Plays You
Stop calling glorified powerpoints and two-minute summaries “video” Print is dead. Editors are being laid off. And everyone who’s anyone in media is “pivoting to video.” But video is a lie!!!! Listen...
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