Subject: Internet

• Stuart Brunson and Mike Pigott: Like Totally BFFs

  July 23, 2008

• Riches of Embarrassment: Accidental Napster Recordings

  Automagical sound recording interface. It really is like a series of tubes! Last week, this post by the New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones led me to this post by Joshua Bearman, which led me to this post by David Dixon, who is an audio archivist and has a collection of MP3s that people (most likely) never meant to share: Back around 2001 there arose a "perfect storm" of technological innovations which made possible audio files I call "mic in tracks". This was right around the time that Napster was

  February 3, 2009

• Sign o' the Times: Vanderbilt Offers Master's Program in YouTube Karaoke

  Well, not exactly a master's program. But, my dear Pith readers, yesterday, while you were slaving away in your cubicle (or hoarding assault weapons before the effete liberal pansies succeed in undermining our very way of life through a sinister campaign of calculated girliness), students in Vanderbilt University art department's performance art class were participating in what's being hailed as the first-ever YouTube karoake. Essentially, the students projected viral YouTube videos on a scr

  March 25, 2009

• Episode 140

  July 10, 2008

• Episode 139

  July 3, 2008

• Episode 138

  June 26, 2008

• Episode 137

  June 19, 2008

• Episode 136

  June 12, 2008

• Episode 135

  June 5, 2008

• Episode 134

  May 29, 2008

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  May 22, 2008

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  May 15, 2008

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  May 8, 2008

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  May 1, 2008

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  April 24, 2008

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  April 17, 2008

• Episode 127

  April 10, 2008

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  April 3, 2008

• Episode 125

  March 27, 2008

• Episode 124

  March 20, 2008

• Episode 123

  March 13, 2008

• Clone of Episode 122

  March 6, 2008

• Episode 121

  February 28, 2008

• Episode 120

  February 21, 2008

• Episode 119

  February 14, 2008

• Episode 118

  February 7, 2008

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  January 31, 2008

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  January 24, 2008

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  January 17, 2008

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  January 10, 2008

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  January 3, 2008

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  December 27, 2007

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  December 20, 2007

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  December 13, 2007

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  December 6, 2007

• Episode 108

  November 29, 2007

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  November 22, 2007

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  November 15, 2007

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  November 8, 2007

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  November 1, 2007

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  October 25, 2007

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  October 18, 2007

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  September 27, 2007

• Episode 98

  September 20, 2007

• To Tweet or Not to Tweet: A Moral Dilemma

  OK. So with the title of this post alone, I've already outed myself as being eons behind all the cutting-edge bloggers, hipsters and alt-bros that compose the ever-growing Twitter tapestry. I don't tweet. There's something about being privy to the eating habits, whereabouts and other various minutiae of my friends' and acquaintances' daily lives that sketches me out and makes me feel like we're about six months away from adopting Newspeak and burning all our books. (Yes, I know I'm mixing fict

  April 30, 2009

• Say My Name, Say My Name

  Let me be clear. I'm just a blogger. I'm not a journalist. I am flattered as all get out and tickled Silverman works for a big, important paper.​every time I go to write an entry here and my log-in still works, because I don't and can't do what the folks here at The Scene do.And the truth is, I don't think it's my job.We were having this argument last week about my post on Ian Shapira. Caleb Hannan thought I was being unfair to Shapira by typifying his whole piece as "Boo hoo, Gawker sent me a

  August 9, 2009

• Has Google Deleted Your MP3 Blog Yet?

  ​As you may have heard, MP3 blogs are disappearing from the Internets. More specifically, they are disappearing from from the Google-owned Blogger platform, which also includes Blogspot. This story in last week's L.A. Weekly touches on the trend: Google, the bloggers believe, has quietly changed the methods by which it enforces its user agreement. Whereas in the past, a blog owner would receive a warning before a post's removal, Google is now simply hitting the delete button. And it's e

  February 10, 2010

• Blog Summit Recap: Sean Braisted, Yvonne Smith and Adam Gold at Vanderbilt

  The writing studio at Vanderbilt University had local bloggerAn artist's rendering of the three bloggers.​s Sean Braisted, Yvonne Smith, and our own Adam Gold as the guests at Thursday night's installment of "On Writing." It was really nice. The bloggers were well-chosen. In just three people, the audience got a good sense of the breadth of experiences contained in the term "blogger." You had a political guy who blogs for fun, a vegan activist who blogs in order to raise the profile of h

  February 19, 2010