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Summary If you know the Napster story at all, then you know about the Shawn(Sean)s. Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker. But in my opinion, and ...

Summary: Just as last week’s episode posted, another great piece about SoundCloud was posted on Buzzfeed by the great Ryan Mac. So, in a rare ...

Summary: David Pakman is a well respected venture capitalist at Venrock, but also a lifelong musician and music fan. Earlier in his career he played ...

Summary: Our friend Christina Warren is back for another analysis episode. Christina recently posted a tweetstorm about SoundCloud, and its prospects for the future. So ...

This week — a new technology falls into the wrong hands.

The Village Voice is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in New York.

Reviews of new releases by Hurricane Chris, Kate Nash, the Almost, 1990s and Z-Ro.

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.[2] The book won the National Book Award[3] and Pulitzer Prize[4] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.[5]

The 1939 review of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

We are often told that data are the new oil. But unlike oil, data are not a substance found in nature. It must be appropriated. The capture and processing of so...

The social network’s increasing threat to journalism

Something really dramatic is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry, almost without us noticing and certainly without the level of public examination and debate it deserves. Our news ecosystem has changed more dramatically in the past five years than perhaps at any time in the past five hundred. We […]

Making the rounds is The Facebook Fallacy, a killer essay by Michael Wolff in MIT Technology Review. The gist: At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of our ti…

Facebook is doomed.

A look at the complicated business of funding open source software development.

On our inaugural episode of The Diff, [Joel](https://twitter.com/JoelMarcey) talks to [Christine Abernathy](https://twitter.com/abernathyca) and [Eric Nakagawa](https://twitter.com/ericnakagawa), open source developer advocates at Facebook.

Consumer information exposing scams and lies in corporate america, media, politics government

When two sisters hit the web with their new idea, it was unlike anything anyone had seen. That one site, ChickClick, inspired so many more and crafted a foundational network of the early web.

WE HAVE TO WRAP OUR brains around 3.05 for a second." John Battelle, the managing editor of Wired, is using softwarespeak to start a meeting about the fifth issue of the magazine's third year. But Louis Rossetto seems to be somewhere else. Wearing sneakers and jeans, his wavy gray hair yanked back into a ponytail, curly wisps escaping around the sides, he stares blankly into space, like some cocky kid on an internship. Actually, he's Wired's 45-year-old editor and publisher, looking lost in a daydream . . . about how he trounced the mass media, maybe, those Second Wave dinosaurs who wouldn't know an Ethernet if somebody hacked one directly into their brainstem. . . . Rossetto props himself up on a bony elbow. The daydream would go like this: He lopes through the streets of Manhattan -- a tall, skinny figure -- with his partner in romance and business, Jane Metcalfe. It's 1991 and they have no jobs. They're looking for money to start a new magazine about the Digital Generation, whom they call "the most powerful people on the planet today."

Relationships we have with our friends, family, or colleagues influence our personal decisions, as well as decisions we make together with others. As in human beings, despotism and egalitarian societies seem to also exist in animals. While studies have shown that social networks constrain many phenomena from amoebae to primates, we still do not know how consensus emerges from the properties of social networks in many biological systems. We created artificial social networks that represent the continuum from centralized to decentralized organization and used an agent-based model to make predictions about the patterns of consensus and collective movements we observed according to the social network. These theoretical results showed that different social networks and especially contrasted ones – star network vs. equal network - led to totally different patterns. Our model showed that, by moving from a centralized network to a decentralized one, the central individual seemed to lose its leadership in the collective movement's decisions. We, therefore, showed a link between the type of social network and the resulting consensus. By comparing our theoretical data with data on five groups of primates, we confirmed that this relationship between social network and consensus also appears to exist in animal societies.

The aim of this study is to provide an overview the state-of-the-art elements of text classification. For this purpose, we first select and investigat…

There is growing evidence that social media addiction is an evolving problem, particularly among adolescents. However, the absence of an instrument me…

Source Hacking details the techniques used by media manipulators to target journalists and other influential public figures to pick up falsehoods and unknowingly amplify them to the public.

Memes come off as a joke, but some people are starting to see them as the serious threat they are.