Periscope and Meerkat represent the next stage of personal live streaming, putting the ability to broadcast right in the hand of anyone with a smartphone. That’s a lot of power, and like the broader Internet, content on Periscope and Meerkat runs the gamut from fascinating to banal.
We’ve all been there. You open up Facebook or Instagram and are hit with a barrage of photos of your friends’ kids. After the fifth or sixth one, though, you’re probably all “oohed” and “awed” out. But what can you do? Enter Parent Co.
• Alt Lit is an online writing community that uses videos, social media, and images as its medium. The output is odd, fascinating, and challenging. Kenneth Goldsmith digs into the phenomenon for The New Yorker, making comparisons to Walt Whitman, the Beats, and even William Blake. (newyorker.com) • The quietest place on Earth is in Minnesota, and…
By JIM SABATASO | WRITER Earlier today, comedian and Twitter Jedi Patton Oswalt took to his feed to apologize for a series of offensive Tweets he never tweeted. Here’s a taste: The FUCK is wrong with me? Last Tweet deleted. The victims of the Holocaust deserve our highest respect, not penis limericks. — Patton Oswalt…
• Hey, Wall Street, Twitter’s not dead — you just don’t get it. Will Oremus explains why Twitter is more like YouTube than Facebook. “Twitter is not a social network. … It’s better described as a social media platform, with the emphasis on ‘media platform.’ And media platforms should not be judged by the same metrics as social…
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