Faster Forward Archive: Digital culture
Twitter adds another way to keep score: lists
Last Friday, Twitter rolled out a feature it had been testing for a few months: the ability to sort the people you follow on the popular micro-blogging site into lists, much like how Facebook lets you create multiple friends lists. My initial concept of lists was no more sophisticated than...
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November 5, 2009; 1:43 PM ET |
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Electronic voting lingers on
I voted earlier today, and I'd like to think that it was the last time I had to deal with an electronic voting machine. But knowing how long old software and hardware can stay in service in large bureaucracies, I fear that I'll have the same experience next year. And...
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Rob Pegoraro
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November 3, 2009; 1:46 PM ET |
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Google's recipe: to serve man?
The odds are pretty good that many of you found this article with the help of a large technology firm based on the West Coast. The odds also suggest that many of you will move on from this page to sites or services operated by the same company -- and...
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Rob Pegoraro
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October 30, 2009; 11:07 AM ET |
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Performance Art: Reviewing the Concert as It Happens
People attending rock concerts, especially arena- and stadium-size events, do weird things. They sing off key (or, more often, shout) as if they were alone in their cars. They jump up and down. They air-guitar and air-drum. They hold up the illuminated screens of their cellphones to call for an...
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Rob Pegoraro
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September 30, 2009; 11:35 AM ET |
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Disney Does Digital Books
The electronic-book business is starting to pick up some speed -- although it remains too soon to say it won't crash into a bridge abutment. This year has already seen e-book advances from Amazon, which shipped its Kindle 2 and Kindle DX* readers, and Barnes & Noble, which delivered a...
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Rob Pegoraro
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September 29, 2009; 1:36 PM ET |
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What I Uploaded for My Summer Vacation
Summer isn't over yet, but the summer-vacation season is. I know this because I'm no longer getting updates about your travels when I log into Facebook and Twitter. This isn't the first year that I've been able to follow friends' vacations online; tech-enthusiast types have been uploading pictures and composing...
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September 14, 2009; 11:00 AM ET |
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