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How Writing Is Losing to Metrics in the Online Content Wars

Bleak notes from the frontlines of writing for algorithms.
Tommy Dean
3.17.13
Motherboard Blog

Dodging Bombs to Capture Afghanistan's Media Success Story

Talking with director Eva Orner about Afghanistan's television revolution.
Daniel Stuckey
3.17.13
News

The Joseph Colony Fire: Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan Provide Cover for All Kinds of Grudges

On the morning of March 9, a mob set fire to the Joseph Colony in Badami Bagh, a Christian neighborhood in Lahore, Pakistan. Television cameras captured crowds celebrating their arson that evening amid the smoldering destruction. A total of about 17...
Osama Motiwala
3.17.13
Motherboard Blog

Living Alone in the Fukushima Evacuation Zone

Naoto Matsumura refused to leave his evacuated town, living now in solitude with a farm full of animals.
Tomo Kosuga
3.17.13
Comics!

Eskimo

A lone Eskimo finds something mysterious while cruising on an ice floe. Can he get it back to his igloo?
Thomas Herpich
3.17.13
NSFW

Is Everyone Having Sex on the Plane Except Me?

I can understand my failure in the finding-a-stranger-to-bone-on-a-plane department. Not everyone is Bruce Willis. But I’ve also flown with someone I was doing it with at the time. But still, nothing. How do you sneak back to the bathroom without...
Kat George
3.17.13
WEEDIQUETTE

The Amplifier Effect

This weekend, at a spontaneous and vaguely St. Patrick’s Day-inspired reunion at our usual clubhouse in South Philly, my college bro Marv found himself at the crossroads of a widely known truth: if you smoke when you’re drunk, both intoxications are...
T. Kid
3.17.13
News

Gaza's Graveyards for The Living: Now Flooded with Sewage Water

There are now at least 900 tunnels operating between Gaza and Egypt. That flourishing business is a distressing signal of Gaza’s economic isolation. To work in these tunnels is considered the most dangerous job in Gaza. It's known as “the trade of...
Mohammed Omer
3.17.13
Stuff

I Partied with Some Young Republicans at CPAC

It was pretty surreal.
Wilbert L. Cooper
3.17.13
Motherboard

Is It a Good Idea to Revive Extinct Species, Jurassic Park-Style?

Some scientists say no, others say yes. The 10 year-old in all of us wants to see a live wooly mammoth.
Austin Considine
3.16.13
Motherboard Blog

Weathering the Storm? Bitcoin Finds New Resiliency

Open-source banking charges upward.
ALEC LIU
3.16.13
SXSW 2013

Blind South By - Day Four

Our blind reporter spends the day with Kitty Pryde, Haim, Future, Usher, and the crew from All Songs Considered.
Will Butler
3.16.13
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