The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas
A profile of the internet’s poet, Patricia Lockwood.
That Goddamned Blue Bird and Me
On Twitter’s pleasures and perils.
Gratuitous Pictures of Your Grief
On the late singer Judee Sill, the virtual cemetery site Find a Grave, and memorials in the age of the Twitter RIP.
How Much Tech Can One City Take?
How a burgeoning tech workforce swallowed San Francisco.
Rape Case Unfolds on Web and Splits City
A rape case in which most of the evidence lies in the archives of Twitter and Instagram divides a football-crazed town of 18,400.
Anything Could Happen
A story written about Twitter and one its founders, Evan Williams, when the company’s chief source of revenue was subletting desks in their partially filled office.
Twitter Was Act One
A profile of Jack Dorsey, co-founder (and displaced CEO) of Twitter. Dorsey’s latest venture, a mobile credit card system called Square that only officially launched in February 2011, already processes more than a million transactions per day.
Revealing the Man Behind @MayorEmanuel
How a journalism professor named Dan Sinker became the most entertaining part of the Chicago mayoral race.
Conan 2.0
When Conan O’Brien left NBC, he agreed to stay off TV for months and stay quiet about the network and its executives. The agreement contained no mention of social media, however. On the origins of a digital renaissance.
Small Change
Can real activism happen on Twitter and Facebook? Malcolm Gladwell says no.
