From Esquire, an article on Jonathan Coulton, Internet famous and loving every minute of it (he thinks). Overdosing on reality: A child of the Internet goes feral in full view. It has never been easier to document our lives — but why would anyone share all this detail, or anyone else bother reading it? From PopMatters, the public display of the private individual: It is the shift from Rockwell's paranoid "I always feel like somebody's watching me" to the insistence that someone need be watching to validate private feelings; and the paradox of the new media is that for each face-to-face interaction we sacrifice, we open up the possibility of connecting with thousands of like-minded people. Listen to me: An old genre (the rant) erupts in a new venue (YouTube). Going viral: Brandon Hardesty discovered that in the age of YouTube, if you can make it in the family rec room, you can make it anywhere. From 3D Space to Third Place: An article on the social life of small virtual spaces. Post GeoCities: How online communities are born and what happens when they die. For anyone who hasn’t been following the blog You’re Talking a Lot, but You’re Not Saying Anything, Kerry Skemp recently summed up the lessons learned with the ultimate “meta-commentary” post: "Commentary on My Commentary on Commentary".
