Rebuilding the Web
Brad Enseln has posted a nice call to action on rebuilding the Web. He argues, and I agree, that one way to reduce the dominance of social silos is to […]
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For the Union Dead
Finished my drawing of the Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment (you can see the work in progress here) and added some text from Robert Lowell’s […]
Monday Sketchbag
A grab bag of delightful sketches and drawings from the past week
Apple’s Unsocial Network
Apple skepticism is de rigueur these days, as stumbles in hardware and software (particularly MacOS software) leave observers wondering if the company has lost a step, or lost the plot […]
Don’t Feed the Trolls, and Other Hideous Lies
The pseudonymous Film Crit Hulk writes in the Verge today about the ways we have accepted troll behavior as kind of a given on the Internet, and the way that […]
“Celebrating” Steve Ditko
Kim O’Connor is the author of one of my favorite comics blogs on the internet, and she is on fire with her latest post. She writes “Since his death was […]
On Chernow’s Grant
I recently read Chernow’s Grant. It is magnificent, and continues the important work of refuting the denigration of Grant and Reconstruction by racist Twentieth Century historians of the Dunning School […]
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Nick Carr on the Problem with Social Media
Nick Carr, author of The Shallows, reviews Siva Vaidhyanathan’s Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy and Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right […]
The World According to Twitter
I’ve written recently about what I consider to be an emerging consensus, or if not quite rising to the status of consensus, a recognition that we have not reckoned with […]