Teh Interwebz

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The Brilliance That is WireTap

Jonathan Goldstein is a miserable nebbish who will forever be stuck in the frozen wasteland of Canadian radio, broadcasting to no one. His friends mock him, his parents coddle him and his ex-girlfriends hate him. Mainly because he has a tendency to call after midnight – drunk – asking if he can come over to sleep in the same bed as her and her husband so that he can get a good nights sleep. He is pretentious. He is self-centered. He is egotistical. Jonathan Goldstein, one could say, is a terribly boring troglodyte who just so happens to be the most brilliant figure in entertainment radio. Continue reading →

Craigslost: This Week’s Greatest Classified Ads Ever

I’ve been wanting to write about the amazingness that is Craigslist for the longest time. You see, I love Craigslist. I love it so bad that, in the eloquent words of one Craigslist poster, I want the site to bring the popcorn and leave its panties.

So I decided to do like all great journalists and steal someone else’s idea find inspiration from those who came before me.  In this case, I was inspired by Amy Blair’s excellent (and sadly defunct) Week in Craig column at The Black Table and (later) Animal New York.

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Finally There’s a Blog Devoted to 70s Shag Vans

If you’re a member of Generation X, there’s a good chance you were conceived in the back of a 70s-model Dodge van with floor-to-ceiling shag carpeting, a heart-shaped portal window and a fully-stocked bar in the back.

Luckily a van enthusiast has come along and created Nooneridesforfree.com to chronicle the awesomeness that is 70s west coast custom van culture. The site’s name is a reference to one of the all-time great lines, “Gas, grass or ass. No one rides for free.”

Nick Denton Holds His Own as 34th Gay in America

I was recently on a plane bound for Panama City Beach, Florida and after working ceaselessly on my first post for Crasstalk, I decided it was time for a break from being so talented all the time. I put away my warm Macbook and got out the magazines. With me on this trip was the issue of Out for May 2011 which includes their list of the Top 50 most influential Gays. Imagine my surprise to find out Nick Denton is influential.
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Are you living in an Internet Bubble?


Eli Pariser makes a great case for why the Internet, as we know it today, is not the information free-for all that we all believe it to be. Editors, the gatekeepers of the past, have been replaced by algorithms that have been designed to tailor Google search results and Facebook News Feeds to your tastes and interests, while leaving out ideas that are uncomfortable but important. Great video from TED2011. Comment.

All the Tweets That Are Fit to Print

Once upon a time, in a land called Twitter, the residents of this incredibly chaotic, yet endlessly fascinating land, contributed their words of wisdom – all in 140 characters or less, for those of us plebes for our entertainment.

Some sort of wedding appears to have occurred, resulting in an overwhelming number of droplets of wisdom from the Twitterians.  The lovely Rachael Maddow attended the NRA convention, Jesse Tyler Ferguson contemplates gender perception in the media, Seth Meyers’ mocking spread far and wide, and several other random tales were shared in Twitterland, including the fact that Stephen Moffat is the coolest dad in the world.  At least to this dork.

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