30 Rock: “Season 4″
The pages go on strike on 30 Rock’s fourth season premiere. Photo courtesy of NBC.
Fresh off its third straight comedy series win at the Emmys, 30 Rock kicked off its fourth season by standing inches from the economy and staring it in the face. It was a strange way to start the season, but it [...]
Fmylife.com helps us feel better about our crappy days
The addictive site is an exercise in schadenfreude: Using other people’s misery to cheer ourselves up.
A blog that reminds you John McCain is old
Jumping off a recent post where I emphasized how terrible John McCain is, this blog emerges. Titled “Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain,” this blog aims at telling you things that are younger than John McCain. A few highlights – the chocolate [...]
Northwestern OTR’s “anonymous” bloggers go on the record
How two seniors rake in cash by blogging on Northwestern from scandals to squirrels.
American Idol: Week 8
This week may not have been as “sexy”, but Syesha’s performances were still hot. Photo courtesy of AmericanIdol.com.
We’re down to the top five, which can only mean one thing. Each performer must sing twice in a effort for the producers to drag out the show for a full hour. Apparently AI is [...]
How to deal with “Stuff White People Like”
Pretend you are a hip, young person who uses the Internet frequently. You love “surfing the web” and reading “blogs” and opening “tabs.” Since you are so on top of the digital world, you found out about the hot new satirical/satirical? blog Stuff White People Like last week, when it started getting crazy [...]
The deaths at Virginia Tech
For today at least, I think the silence of the dead says more than we could hope to say ourselves.
Calling all bloggers!
NBN needs a few passionate writers who want to show off their stuff. No blogging experience necessary. Inquire within.
Magazines reinvented as blogs
Slate translates the magazine for the Web: You have the cover with its big images and teasers, and a table of contents for the rest of the site. Look closely and it still resembles its print cousin.
So what if you actually re-imagined magazines for the Web? If you cover video games and technology, you get [...]
To be or not to be… anonymous
Anonymous blog comments make for intense conversations focused on the merits of hot topics. They also for violent, obscene mud-slinging.
MSJ blogger Rob Mentzer writes about the issue of anonymous comments, concluding that the free-for-all of the Web does more good than bad:
The best things about blogs are that they are immediate, individual and responsive. [...]
