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(Lulu)Lulu is an app that lets women rate guys they've slept with. Was he willing to commit? Was he gassy?
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The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook
How to not fall for rumors during a breaking news story.
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On the Media: This Week
A special theme hour, starring ROBOTS!
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Sgt Star - An Update
An update to March's TLDR story about a chatbot that wants to recruit you to the US Army.
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TLDR #11 - RIP Vile Rat
The story of Vile Rat, the online alter-ego of Sean Smith, one of the four Americans killed in Benghazi.
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TLDR #9 - The Second Life of Marion Stokes
Preserving 140,000 videocassettes w/35 years of cable news.
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TLDR Episode #7 - It's Rating Men
Lulu is an app that lets women rate guys they've slept with. Was he willing to commit? Was he gassy?
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The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook
How to not fall for rumors during a breaking news story.
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On the Media: This Week
A special theme hour, starring ROBOTS!
Sgt Star - An Update
An update to March's TLDR story about a chatbot that wants to recruit you to the US Army.
A Silent Spotify to Fund a Tour
A band called Vulfpeck has asked fans to stream an entire album of silence on Spotify
while they sleep, so the band can use the royalties to tour without
charging for their shows. So far, the scheme has worked. We talk to
Vulfpeck's Jack Stratton about ...
The Problem With "Doxxing"
For years an internet term of art for revealing personal information
online, "dox" suddenly entered the popular lexicon last week when Newsweek
claimed it had discovered the founder of Bitcoin. But is this the right
application of the term? What does doxxing actually mean?
TLDR #17 - Hey, Guess What? I Found Truth For Us
Last fall, TLDR covered a bunch of hoaxes. Some we liked, most we didn't. On this episode, we talk to Paulo Ordoveza and Adrienne LaFrance, a couple of people who have devoted themselves to trying to debunk the innumerable falsehoods flying around the internet.
The likely hoax app that requires you to be drunk before you can use it.
Livr is a new social networking app named for the organ you will be
destroying while you use it. You see, you can only access Livr if your
blood alcohol level is above a certain number.
#16 - *Win a Million Dollar Mansion From Your HOME COMPUTER*
"Sweepers" are people who spend their free time entering hundreds of
online sweepstakes -- the contests most of us skip because we're sure
they're all scams. It turns out, we're wrong. Some people win big.
Reporter Laura Mayer takes us into the online sweepstakes universe.
The Internet Has Brought Thousands of People Together to Play Pokemon
In its purest and most noble form, the internet is an experiment in
community building. It allows people who would have no reason to
interact in the real world to come together to work toward, or in some
cases against, a common goal. In the case of Twitch ...
Why the Hasidic Community Loves WhatsApp
Since it is used expressly for peer-to-peer communication, it doesn't
require users to browse the internet, thus potentially exposing them to
material they might not want to see.
Creepy New App Lets People Eavesdrop
Why leave eavesdropping on phone calls to law enforcement? With the new app Crowdpilot, you can invite anyone to listen in.
No, New York Will Not Get 30 Inches Of Snow This Weekend
News outlets are reporting it and sourcing their claims to "social media speculation" (!!!). Good news: It's not true.
OK, Maybe we jumped the gun on the whole Google Glass thing
Last week, PJ wrote an excellent article comparing early aesthetic critiques of Google Glass to those of the Sony's Walkman.
The point was that all technology looks ridiculous and impractical
until it becomes useful, and then it's basically indespensible. But
cartoonist and journalist Susie Cagle pointed ...
TLDR #13 - Slender Man, The Internet's Monster
The Slender Man is
the internet's monster - the subject of countless remixes, tributes,
and parodies. He's so ubiquitous he feels like he's been around for
ages, like folklore. But Slender Man has an owner and a point of origin.
Host Alex Goldman talks to Eric Knudsen, the creator ...
Prince's Troubled Relationship With the Internet
Prince is suing 22 fans, for $1 million a piece, for posting links to bootlegs of his concerts on filesharing sites. This is just the latest volley in Prince's long standing love/hate (well, mostly hate/hate) relationship with the internet.
TLDR #12 - Hunting for Youtube's Saddest Comments
YouTube's infamous for having one of the worst comment sections on
the internet. There's no reason to ever read them. Unless you’re writer
& filmmaker Mark Slutsky.
Mark spends hours scouring the comments section on YouTube, and
occasionally, scattered in the dross, he finds small poignant stories
for his ...
Revenge Porn Pioneer Hunter Moore Indicted
UPDATE: read indictment below.
Time Magazine is reporting that Hunter Moore has been indicted by a grand jury for conspiracy to “access a protected computer without authorization to obtain information for private financial gain.” There aren't many details available and I haven't seen a copy of the indictment ...
Time Magazine is reporting that Hunter Moore has been indicted by a grand jury for conspiracy to “access a protected computer without authorization to obtain information for private financial gain.” There aren't many details available and I haven't seen a copy of the indictment ...
Behold! The Internet's Beauty Catalogued
If there is one idea that PJ and I drive towards both on the TLDR blog and on the podcast,
it's that the internet can be a beautiful, magical place. It is the
staging ground for so much cleverness and creativity and humanity. So,
imagine my delight this ...
Twitter Tries to Cash in on Large Minority Userbase
Ther have been two wholly unrelated truths about Twitter almost since
the service premiered. The first is that it has a black and Hispanic
userbase that is much larger than the internet as a whole. The second is the service remains unprofitable. Twitter is hoping to ...
Yesterday, The Internet Solved 20-Year-Old Mystery
The internet helps a woman decipher the confounding, decades old notes of her dying grandmother.
The Feds Have $25 Million In Bitcoin From the Silk Road. Now What?
Yesterday, the US District Attorney's Office for the Souther District of New York announced the forfeiture of
29,655 bitcoins from the servers it seized from Ross Ulbricht, the
owner of defunct internet drug marketplace Silk Road. According to this bitcoin converter, that is about $24.5 million dollars worth ...
A Weird, Gwen Ifill-Related Twitter Mystery is Happening Right Now (Update: Solved!)
At 2:01 this afternoon, a bunch of journalism-related Twitter
accounts suddenly started tweeting this cryptic message: "f gwenifill."
If you search twitter for the phrase, you see that it's very widespread, and that no one really seems to know what's going on.
Businesses Might Suffer If They Google Prospective Employees
Scientific American reports on a study that
shows job applicants who know their prospective boss viewed their
social media profiles are more likely to think that their hiring process
was unfair. This is even true in cases where the applicant gets the
job.
Leaving Negative Reviews Online is Not As Safe As It Used To Be
There was a time when leaving negative reviews of a business on the
internet was a no risk proposition. If a company burned you, or even if
you were a competitor leaving a fake review, the business couldn't
really do anything about it. That appears, however slowly, to be
changing.
Sometimes, Native Advertising is Actually Pretty Good
I am generally not a fan of advertising of any kind. Print,
billboards, TV - no matter how creative you are, I find it an annoying
distraction that I try to tune out. But there have been a couple of
smart attempts at online advertising recently that were great not ...
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