Digital Age
Paoli’s DuckDuckGo Wants to Bring Google to Its Knees
What prompted you to create a search engine like DuckDuckGo, and play David to Google’s Goliath? I was going in a bunch of different directions […]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Man Purse
I really wished I’d had my man purse with me the night I met Darren Daulton. (How often does a guy get to say that?) […]
Falling Bear Is Suspended in Time (and Air) Forever in Our Hearts
A week or so ago, Andy Duann, a kid at Colorado University-Boulder, snapped a photo of a tranquilized bear tumbling out of a tree. The […]
Facebook Timeline Brings Order to Your Messy Existence
I do not like straight lines. I don’t like standing in them, I don’t like drawing them, and I certainly don’t like cutting in them. […]
What to Do if You Become Internet Famous
Back in December I wrote this blog post and it went viral. To date, there have been close to 700,000 views and countless other reproductions on […]
Welcome to the Era of the “My Generation”
I have been advised by those who know to build my own website, as well as one on ramp agent parenting, in order to promote, […]
The Beatles Are on Slow Fade Into Pop Culture Obscurity
You’ll have heard of the import from Britain that has redefined young folk’s relationship with music. I’m talking, of course, about Spotify, the legal music […]
There Used to Be This Book Full of Word Definitions Called a Dictionary
Earlier this week, the AP Stylebook—the Baedeker of arcane rules for the journalism industry—announced that it was caving to popular opinion and would no longer […]
Hot Chicks in Underpants
I just watched a video of a woman showing off her apartment in her underpants. It was titled “Me and My Place.” It was handsomely […]
American Idol Is the Most Important Show on TV
Tonight, the seven remaining contestants on American Idol will each belt out two tunes in their continuing quest for singing stardom, and tomorrow night one […]
Want a Job? Give Me Access to Your Facebook Page
We call her Aunt Dolores but she’s really not our Aunt. She is … now see if you can follow me … the 70-year-old sister […]
Neal Pollack Talks Jews and Basketball, Philadelphia Nazis, and E-Books
In October, former Philly Mag writer Neal Pollack released his sixth book, Jewball—self-published for Amazon’s Kindle. No contracts, no marketing outside of his Facebook and […]
Match.com Fails Greek Goddess
My sister describes her co-worker Celia as “Greek, in a goddess kind of way.” No one needs to see that everyday at her place of […]
Don’t Know What Foursquare Is? You’re Not Alone
The Foursquare-based iPhone app Girls Around Me has been the subject of much media attention and controversy for the last few days, ever since the website […]
Some Philly Cops Need a Crash Course in the First Amendment
Over the past 18 months citizen-photojournalists have managed to document—with little controversy—the killing of a dictator, the downfall of a fashion icon and an unprovoked […]