http://www.publicbooks.org//nonfiction/whats-so-social-about-social-media
As my friends know very well, I am a steadfast social media refusenik. I am VERY "old school" when it comes to information technology, period. I was amused to read this from Jason Kottke:
http://kottke.org/13/12/rip-the-blog-1997-2013
I rely mainly on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Hacker News, and Stellar for keeping up with news and information...that's where most of the people I know do their "blogging". I still read lots of blog posts, but only when they're interesting enough to pop up on the collective radar of those I follow...and increasingly those posts are on Medium, Facebook, or Tumblr.
I must be very out of it indeed, because I am not plugged into a single one of the platforms mentioned in those sentences.
The "popularity principle" that Aronczyk discusses means nothing to me. I want very few readers. I once described Patrick Murtha's Diary as an "anti-blog." (Now, all blogs are kind of anti-blogs, because they are non-participants in the popularity sweepstakes.)
The books that Aronczyk discusses sound comparable to Brian Winston's Media Technology and Society: A History from the Telegraph to the Internet, another myth-buster that is one of the best books I read in 2013.
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Jimmy Stamp, "Traveling in Style and Comfort: The Pullman Sleeping Car" at Design Decoded:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/12/traveling-in-style-and-comfort-the-pullman-sleeping-car/
Irresistible for a train buff like me. TBR.
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Karl Shuker, "The Lanai Hookbill" at ShukerNature:
http://karlshuker.blogspot.mx/2013/12/the-lanai-hookbill-lesson-in-how.html
I have been interested in the Hawaiian Islands' unique and partially decimated native birdlife ever since I read an article called "Haunted Sands of Laysan" by George Laycock in Audubon Magazine 44 years ago, when I was a mere 12-year-old. At Yale, I wrote a term paper on Hawaiian birds for a "man and the natural world" course; this involved spending my spring break week not in Fort Lauderdale, in which I would have had no interest whatsoever, but in Yale's compact, thorough, and delightful Ornithology Library. (Yes, I'm a geek!) Right outside the library in the same building were cabinets full of bird specimens that I could look at, including some of the very rarest Hawaiian species - it was thrilling to be able to do this.
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A wonderful photo of Port Huron, Michigan in 1900 at Shorpy:
http://www.shorpy.com/node/16792
Click on the full size view for incredible detail.
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Walter Forsberg, "God Must Have Painted These Pictures: Illuminating Auroratone's Lost History" at Incite: Journal of Experimental Media:
http://www.incite-online.net/forsberg4.html
This is completely fascinating. The only surviving Auroratone is at YouTube:
More references at these links:
http://dangerousminds.net/
http://sensorycinema.org/blog/
http://sensorycinema.org/
http://www.
http://sanitysoap.com/2013/06/
http://popmontreal.com/le-
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Information about a short-lived 1966 fiction and humor periodical with an impressive array of contributors, P.S.: a lively look at you past and promise, at Sweet Freedom:
http://socialistjazz.blogspot.mx/2014/01/have-you-seen-me-p-s-magazine.html
This is not to be confused with the still-produced U.S. Army comic book, PS: The Preventive Maintenance Monthly, which was edited by Will Eisner from its inception in 1951 until 1971:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_(magazine)
The Eisner issues are archived online by the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. As I'm discovering more and more, it's amazing what is available through university and public library online services these days.
http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/psm
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