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Oh Kaplan, My Kaplan!
A former intern remembers the editor of novelistic New York journalism, who inspired a generation of writers and launched a thousand fake Tweets.
How Stories Went Viral in Antebellum America
Researchers have found that the 19th century had listicles and an equivalent to YouTube.
Farewell to the 'Phoenix': Working at Boston’s Defunct Alt-Weekly
The easiest way to make something a legend is to kill it. When the 'Phoenix' shut down two weeks ago, after 48 years as an institution in the Boston political and artistic landscape, the internet surged with remembrances from the writers who had passed...
Big Rich Facebook Is Stealing Poor Little Newspapers' Thunder
If you really want a personalized newspaper, go buy a copy of The New York Times and throw away the sections you don't like.
In the Vacuum Left By Shrinking Newspapers, State Media Are Rising
Yeah, yeah, newspapers are doomed, budgets are collapsing, journalists are losing jobs, and unpaid writers are slaving away at traffic-whoring fast food posts for major outlets that promise the experience will give said unpaid writers a leg up in a...
How to Hack the New York Times in One Easy Step
If you aren't already one of the Grey Lady's 100,000 "digital subscribers":http://motherboard.tv/2010/1/20/once-it-starts-charging-will-the-new-york-times-get-pirated, blessed with an endless supply of Top Stories, not to worry: you can pretend to be...
Ones and Zeros 5/23/11: France Says 'Oui Oui' for Internet Manners, Black-Holes Bare All in New Photo Shoot
_History has such a limited return on investment. Nothing we can learn from it, no ways to improve upon it. It's for the best that those insomniacs who were archiving the world's newspapers for the last five years can call it quits. Let's just get some...
The Genius Of Gawker
This string of comments about Nick Denton, the Gawker Media titan, which appear in the middle of Ben McGrath's "New Yorker profile":http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_mcgrath?printable=true of the man, sounds like it might have...