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Does the fate of bookshops rest on the fate of books?
Recently, I went to Berwick St in Soho with a DJ friend of mine who was in London for a few days. Once hailed as having the greatest concentration of record shops in Britain – back in the 1990s,...
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Tweet your serial
Photo credit: theimpulsivebuy If reading were food, the serialised novel would be the degustation menu. Tantalising chunks of story meted out piece by piece. That experience doesn’t happen all that...
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Hashtag qanda: Lazy debate in 140 characters or less
Television thrives on outrage. So does social media. Welcome to another instalment of Q&A! Week after week it putters along giving airtime to a collection of political figures that might as well...
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Loneliness in the Twittersphere
Image credit: topgold When I quit Facebook a year and a half ago, I told myself it was because I didn’t want so much personal information in the public domain. Not that I’d been a particularly avid...
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Military Vision: Embracing accelerated change
Photo credit: maHidoodi For artists, the accelerated rate of technological change presents an interesting conundrum. It has always been difficult to make statements about technology that will maintain...
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BuzzFeed quizzes understand me
If you use social media regularly – Facebook, in particular – you’ll have completed a BuzzFeed quiz during the past month. Don’t deny it. Even if you didn’t share your results online, deep down...
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The Rise of the High-Minded Startup
On every page of Ello, the self-described ‘simple, beautiful and ad-free’ social network, is a link to their “manifesto”. ‘Advertisers buy your data so they can show you more ads,’ the document reads....
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Removing the blinkers: social media, outrage and animals in sport
When the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (which shortens to the fitting initialism CPR) recently plastered an impossible-to-ignore image of a dead horse on billboards around Australia,...
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Goodbye God, Hello Genius: A Review of The Social Network
As I go through my morning ritual of scanning several online newspapers, the sheer number of references to Facebook or its founder Mark Zuckerberg leaves me nonplussed. There is Richard Harper’s...
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On Journals: Private writing in the age of the overshare
Image by Barry Silver I often have an anxious feeling when I reread the very vain and pretentious passages of my adolescent notebooks. I wonder why I scrutinised my male high school crushes with...
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