The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.by Emily Witt
I had lentil soup for supper standing up at the kitchen counter. After I finished, I moved to the couch in the empty living room and sat under the flat overhead light refreshing feeds on my laptop. This was not a way to live. A man would go to a bar alone, I told myself. So I went to a bar alone.
by Gideon Lewis-Kraus (via Woodlandcreature)
If one has set out to say something definitive about the relationship between cats and the Internet, it’s important not to be delayed indefinitely by Internet cats….
by Kevin Kelly
The Digital Revolution gets all the headlines, but turning slowly beneath the fast-forward turbulence, steadily driving the gyrating cycles of cool technogadgets and gotta-haves, is a much more profound revolution - the Network Economy.
by Jason Tanz
Bogost launched Cow Clicker in July 2010. Within weeks, it had achieved cult status among indie-game fans and social-game critics. Every “I’m clicking a cow” newsfeed update served as a badge of ironic protest. And then something surprising happened…
A Tetw reading list
The best writing about how computers, the internet, social media, and the online economy are changing our lives.
by James Fallows
Consumer-obsessed, sensationalist, and passionate about their work, digital upstarts are undermining the old media—and they may also be pointing the way to a brighter future.
by James Gleick
They tell me they are doing me a favor by taking the distribution of my writing into their own hands: I should be flattered by the attention and grateful for the broad new audience. Well, thanks. But no thanks.
by David Dobbs
Librarians at the University of California system balked when the Nature Publishing Group raised the price of the scores of journals the huge library system subscribes to over $17,000 per journal. The librarians objected that it was ludicrous for universities to fund research and then pay to read it.
