We all wondered when digital media would irrevocably change the act of reading. The answer is right now.
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The Web site for Edge shave gel, EdgeShaveZone.com, is featuring half a dozen short videos about everyday irritations, for the Edge Anti-Irritation Zone.
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The real-life, blonde precursor to Nickelodeon's iCarly, Justine Ezarik, finds her way onto scads of screens with a breezy style and a deep understanding of influence. This interview is part of our ongoing series related to The Influence Project . Creating a random viral moment is as rare as getting struck by lightning, but Justine Ezarik has found a way to routinely bottle the juice and light ...
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Four high school girls walk down a hallway at a campus that looks suspiciously like Manhattan Beachs Mira Costa High School.
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Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption "Drunken Pirate." After discovering the page, her supervisor at the high school told her the photo was "unprofessional," and the dean of ...
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The digital age is facing its first existential crisis: the impossibility of erasing your posted past and moving on.
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Ahoy, social sailors! Hop aboard for another round of Internet catch up, courtesy of the good ship Mashable.
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Comedy is on the rise in China , and one of its unlikeliest stars is a cross-dressing performer known as Xiao Shenyang, or Little Shenyang. Born in hardscrabble northeast China, the 29-year-old comedian has a reputation for gender-bending costumes (sparkly hair bows, womens blouses, a sports bra) and occasional vulgarity. That made his debut on the national stage all the more remarkable ...
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Nick Denton's Gawker empire of gossip Web sites loves to expose everyone else's secrets -- but he's tight-lipped about the confidential settlement...
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