Friday, March 27, 2009

The energy

The great thing about the two-dimensionality of the realtime-realspace continuum is that the sense of intimacy gets disconnected from the act of intimacy. You get the pleasure of the intimate exchange without having to clean up afterwards. No risk, no mess. In today's New York Times, Noam Cohen delivers the profoundly unstartling revelation that a lot of celebrities have hired flaks to feed content into their Twitter streams, their blogs, and the various other online channels of faux authenticity. A gentleman named Broadway (not his real name) thumbs tweets for rapper 50 Cent (not his real name), who has nearly... http://ping.fm/fF3Yz

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