Posts Tagged: Hearts
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Every Web Action Will Be a "Like" Soon

| March 23rd, 2012

First came the advent of "I READ THIS" on Facebook: "Joe Schmo and 4 other friends recently read articles." Oh did you? That's neat. Sure: the age of automatically reported behavior began stodgily. A little sadly. And also, there was the rise of activity timelines: "Lady X commented on her own status"!

Now there's Svbtle, a blogging… platform? Maybe? But more likely a blogging network? It is currently in invite-only form, and was built by one Dustin Curtis to function as a digital scrapbook that allows him to store ideas that, at some point, become published posts. (The rest of us just use Gmail drafts for this. Or our [...]

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Awfulness of 'Cop Out' Forces Critic to Turn on Critics

| February 24th, 2010

"This is the kind of critically bilious emetic I would ordinarily pass by, looking the other way. But at the screening for alleged critics I attended, one lady reviewer old enough to know better went into high-pitched squeals of shrieking hysterics every time the cops described in detail their excrement, flatulence and penis size." -Rex Reed, reviewing "Cop Out," indicates subtly that he has had it with you people laughing about poop and farting and dicks.