Poetic pragmatism, neo-transcendentalism, bikes, burritos, basketball.
Yesterday afternoon I watched Roy Halladay’s no-no on the Hot Corner, which is Major League Baseball’s concession to the Internet. The Hot Corner allows you to choose a single camera angle from which to watch the game, which has the advantage of showing you stuff you might not see in the multi-camera, frequent-cut-away televised experience. [...]
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From the outstanding satirical Twitter feed, @BPGlobalPR. T-shirts here; book deal to follow, I assume.
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Amidst the many changes around and within journalism, the journalist — as an actor in creating the news — is becoming more recognizable, identifiable, and individual. For instance, I’m “friends” with New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof. (Okay, it’s on Facebook, but still). Kristof himself is a media decathlete: In addition to being a NY Times columnist, he has a [...]
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I’m doing some work in Singapore right now, and I’ve quickly noticed a couple of things: Singaporean people love to shop, and they love deals. But they don’t have access to certain brands — American Apparel, Forever 21, Victoria’s Secret, etc. To get stuff from these places, they have to order stuff over the Internet, and have [...]
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Doug LeMoine is puzzled that the construction of Facebook status updates requires me/him to refer to myself/himself in the third person. This format gives structure to the News Feed, but it also encourages the updater to craft the update as a sentence beginning with his/her full name. The forced third-person would seem to create myriad [...]
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I couldn’t agree more with David Pogue, Twitter is what you make of it. This is what I would make of it, if only.
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Ever since Shaquille O’Neal left the Lakers, I’ve been more love than hate. He’s smart and charismatic in ways that are rare for a professional athlete, and of course he’s given out the League’s best nicknames — The Big Aristotle (to himself), The Truth (to Paul Pierce), The Big Fundamental (to Tim Duncan), The Big Ticket (to [...]
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I love reading, and I’ve been thinking a lot about how technology is affecting the way that we read now and in the future. I keep thinking about something Sven Birkerts said in a 1998 interview with Harpers: “If you touch all parts of the globe, you can’t do that and then turn around and [...]
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We have a house guest this week, and we’ve been doing a lot of hanging out while reading and listening to music. Last night, the discussion turned to Auto-Tune, and it quickly revealed the beauty of being at least somewhat Internet-literate. Speaking of Internet-literate, this is our houseguest: Dave. It started with Lil Wayne. I [...]
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What we have here is both a failure to communicate and an ingenious workaround. To Kristen & Rob: Kudos.
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My name is Doug LeMoine. I work both on, and for, the Internet. You can find more about me in the About Me page that I wrote about me.
