digital

Give Me Everything You Have

Virginia Prescott — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:25:08 +0000

Today’s digital world has turned the feedback process into a real-time drama. Home videos, blogs, book review; once posted, everything is fair game for comments, ranging from the rational to the vicious. Few people know this better than James Lasdun - a poet and author, most recently of “Give Me Everything You Have”. The new book is a chilling account of his relationship with a former student turned stalker, who since 2007 has been working to tear down Lasdun’s personal and professional reputation through a terrifying online campaign of hate mail and public commentary.

Instagram, De-Digitized.

Virginia Prescott — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:57:50 +0000

A new start up called Snapstagram wants to print all those vintage-y photos you've been taking with Instagram.

In Noisy Digital Era, 'Elegant' Internet Still Thrives

Todd Bookman — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:15:00 +0000

Before Facebook and MySpace transformed how we interact virtually, there was another kind of Internet — a 1980s network, where users connected via phone lines and communicated through simple lines of text.

And while that may sound outdated, that version of the Internet is still very much alive.

'A Lot More Elegant'

Pat McNameeking, a college student in Concord, N.H., is one champion of this throwback social network known as SDF, or Super Dimensional Fortress.

McNameeking, who goes by the handle Bulywif, connects to the Internet via an Ethernet cable threaded into his p

Wanted: Digital Bloodhounds For The Hotel Industry

Margot Adler — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:03:00 +0000

These days, hotels aren't just looking to hire bellhops, concierges and housekeepers. What the industry really needs are digital bloodhounds: people who understand how to use new technologies to track — and attract — potential guests.

One of those newfangled workers is Greg Bodenlos. At 24, he's just a couple of years out of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.

Digital Technologies Give Dying Languages New Life

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:41:00 +0000

There are some 7,000 spoken languages in the world, and linguists project that as many as half may disappear by the end of the century. That works out to one language going extinct about every two weeks. Now, digital technology is coming to the rescue of some of those ancient tongues.

Members of the Native American Siletz tribe in Oregon say their native language, also called "Siletz," "is as old as time itself." But today, you can count the number of fluent speakers on one hand.

Petitions Are Going Viral, Sometimes To Great Success

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:01:00 +0000

Petitions have been a common form of protest throughout modern history, at times bringing attention to causes through little more than handwritten letters and word of mouth.

But like a lot of other things, petitions are going viral.

#Superbowl ads for those other screens

Brady Carlson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:16:32 +0000

Advertisers dip their toe in the waters of digital Superbowl marketing.