1. the year in internet outrage, by me →

    do you remember the time… that you got all hot and bothered on twitter?

  2. the presented self

    Saturday night I got to talking about the Internet, as I often do, and I was asked about the manner in which I present my self via my various social-media outlets. I explained that I’ve been veiling myself for so long (thanks in part to living at home during my first Era Of Peak Having A Web Presence, and in part to feeling that straight memoir is an inherently unfair type of writing, and in part because people who I’ve trusted have made me feel shitty about having feelings that were somehow “wrong”) that I’ve become quite practiced at writing about one thing while really referencing some internal turmoil or excitement or complicated feeling that I might not be ready to fully plumb. I just spent about 25 insomniac minutes reading the last two and a half months of my Tumblr archives and yeah, this is still very true.

    (Of course later that night I had a minor internet outburst in which I showed my hand a bit too much. Portents!)

  3. but... but it's still april... →

  4. “Some people like to be mean,” Canono said. “A lot of people on the Internet love to be ironic about things.” →

  5. Today in "interesting" developments. →

    Hey, remember my Twitter imposter? She looks kinda… different now.

  6. Music. And its business.: "Do They Know It's Christmas"/ African Reply to Geldof a Hoax, Sadly. →

    Oh dear. I wonder if Kanye West is still calling himself King Of Pop somewhere on the Internet?

  7. "There, I've solved the Internet for you. Time for a muffin." →

    There’s a new Lana Del Rey song out, everybody!

  8. advertisers are increasingly less interested in buying eyeballs by the ton than in focusing on very specific groups of consumers

    — 

    News Consumption Tilts Toward Niche Sites - NYTimes.com

    I’d love to see some actual evidence for this assertion. Especially the “increasingly” bit.

    (via felixsalmon)

    I was going to say the same thing… although I guess we need a definition of “the ton” that we can work with here, no? (Not sure if Gawker is still doing the CPM-per-writer breakdowns, but one of those would be helpful to see just how large a “niche” audience has to be in order to break even these days.)