Retraction
Monologist Mike Daisey admitted he’d invented details in his stage show about working conditions in Chinese factories that manufacture Apple products.
Who wants to review the new Shins album?
Anyone want to write a review for the new Shins album?
Yahoo! Sues Facebook
Yahoo stepped up its new feud with Facebook on Monday, suing the social-networking giant and accusing it of infringing on 10 patents… The patents cover advertising, privacy, customization, social networking and messaging.
The iPad 3 Doesn’t Exist Yet, But I Reviewed It Anyway
The greatest yet! — or what the iPad 3 will be when Apple unveils it on March 7.
Fox News is a Pitiful Excuse For a Journalistic Organization Whose Sole Purpose is to Trick the American Public
Late Thursday morning, Fox News attempted to trick its readers for the 86,230th time by incorrectly reporting that billionaire Donald Trump had endorsed GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich instead of Mitt Romney.
How to win The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
Unless you write like Malcolm Gladwell or Susan Orlean, your best chance at appearing in The New Yorker is probably on its last page, the Cartoon Caption Contest. But even that’s improbable. It took Roger Ebert 107 tries. Yes, that Roger Ebert, the famed film critic, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, screenwriter and all-around ass kicker.
Tumblr Back Online, Balance in Universe Restored
The Tumblr crisis of 2010 has finally ended. For the past 24 hours, the microblogging service was down because of a database failure.
James Franco Graces Cover of The Atlantic… From 1952
The other day I was browsing through old magazines, as I often do, when I discovered this gem of a cover, from a January 1952 issue of The Atlantic, depicting a mustached James Franco chilling on a rock next to a drove of deer.
A Glimpse at Newspaper Fate, if Controlled by The Masses
When The New York Times announced its plan, beginning next year, to charge visitors a fee to access its website, many questioned the viability of that paywall strategy — or any paywall strategy, for that matter. This week, Clay Shirky, who teaches new media at NYU, writes: “General-interest papers struggle to make paywalls work because it’s hard to raise prices in a commodity market. … Any given newspaper competes with a few other newspapers, but any newspaper website compete[s] with all other websites.”
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The responses are in…
Online subscribers to The New Yorker woke up this morning to find a friendly email reminding them that their passwords have been updated. Thus far, the responses on Twitter range from mildly annoyed:
