The Serendipity Revival
With the ever-present, and sometimes intruding, information age presiding over our daily digest, we have become the consumers (and creators) of a constant newsfeed. Whether we experience total access to information as progressive or destructive or a hybrid of both, our participation in the digital age seems to be unavoidable and is (for better or for worse) morphing into a democratic leveling of information. The same...
I Facebook, Therefore I Am
Last month I committed social suicide. I deleted my Facebook account. With no small sense of irony, I went to see The Social Network shortly after. What struck me about the film wasn’t the portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg’s lack of social skills (funny, for a guy who now runs our social lives), the speed of his success, or even how Justin Timberlake brought sexy back to hacking. All I could fo...
The Epigram’s Return
From The Smart Set: The Return of the Epigram. Though Twitter may be guilty for promoting (or at least encouraging) a short attention span, forced brevity is not entirely a bad thing. Humans have been perfecting the art of keeping it short since the beginning of literature. I, for one, am starting to see Twitter as a modern day epigram generator....
Does Professional Journalism Matter Anymore?
A couple of weeks ago, a plane landed on the Hudson River, just a stone's throw from where I was sitting at Space 38|39. I did not learn about it from CNN or MSNBC. I found out about the "Miracle on the Hudson" from Facebook, just minutes after it happened. My friend Peter's status read, "Did a plane really just land on the Hudson?" and I immediately went to work trying to find out what he was talking about. I w...
