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

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