Announcing the launch lineup for XOXO’s shared workspace — Last week, we opened the doors to The Outpost — XOXO’s new shared workspace for independent artists using the Internet to make a living. We’ve filled the Outpost with people and projects we love — game designers, cartoonists, filmmakers, musicians, creative coders, writers, podcasters, fashion designers, and more. Today, we’re…

This year is the fourth year of XOXO, and it’s starting to look less and less like an annual event and more like a community — a group of like-minded people all dealing with similar hopes, dreams, and challenges around living and working online. Every year, we bring over 100+…

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Twitter’s Promoted Tweets are, at best, a necessary evil. At worst, they’re tweets from @Satan himself — brands shoving their unwanted products into your carefully-curated timelines. But with today’s news that we’ll soon start seeing Twitter Ads outside of Twitter, I thought I’d take a deeper look to see if…

As Google abandons its past, Internet archivists step in to save our collective memory Google wrote its mission statement in 1999, a year after launch, setting the course for the company’s next decade: “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” For years, Google’s mission included the preservation of the past. In 2001, Google made their first…

Pirates are now watching films at higher quality than the industry insiders voting on them. Tracking 13 Years of Data In January 2004, the Los Angeles Times published an article headlined “Screener Ends Up on the Internet,” a story about the recent leak of the Something’s Gotta Give screener copy intended for Oscar voters. This…

Twitter, plagiarism, and multiple discovery — Atlas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Last Thursday, The New Yorker published Ayn Rand Reviews Children’s Movies, a very funny series of capsule film reviews written from the perspective of the notoriously humorless, cat-loving Objectivist. For example… “Old Yeller” A farm animal ceases to be useful and is disposed of humanely. A valuable lesson…

An experiment in forced nostalgia and questionable parenting There’s a classic Steve Martin bit from A Wild and Crazy Guy… “I got a great dirty trick you can play on a three-year-old kid… Whenever you’re around him, talk wrong. …

Digging through 316,669 tweets from three days of Twitter’s two-month-old trainwreck — Visualizing the social graph of the #GamerGate/#NotYourShield universe Two months ago today, actor Adam Baldwin was the first to use the #Gamergate hashtag on Twitter, solidifying a name for the movement that’s dominated all conversations in gaming since. …