The aftermath of two rival documentaries about the most disastrous music festival to date paint a portrait of how easy it is for cynical marketers to hijack the idea of community.
The New Yorker profiles The New York Times’ Food Critic, Pete Wells And David Chang basically goes to pieces. Pete Wells is the…
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Last summer, San Francisco Chronicle citizen blogger Yobie Benjamin covered the waterfront, denouncing perceived failures in BP's oil-spill cleanup, including its penchant for using…
Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and their ilk — standard-bearers for the ill-defined phenomenon known as “social media” that is now supposed to be the future…
A few months back, the New Yorker ran a cartoon with one overstuffed type pointing out another overstuffed type to a fellow guest at…