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Swoon Of The Week: We Love The Verge’s Profile Of 8-Bit Artists eBoy

Let’s stop speculating about the future of online journalism for 20 minutes, and instead just enjoy the present of online journalism. Specifically, one of the more creative, fun, and masterfully executed videos you’ll ever find under the banner of “news.” Last week The Verge released a profile of eBoy, a …

Cards Against Humanity’s Max Temkin on the Secret Strengths of Analog Games

We might be launching a series of good talks with good people, or we might not. For the purposes of this blog post, let’s say we are. To kick off Talks With Interesting People, I sat down with Max Temkin, co-creator of Cards Against Humanity, April 24, 2014 in Chicago, Ill. …

Shake, Frisk, And Flip Your Pancake: The Best Man-On-The-Street Interviews In Harlem

Late night comedy shows have employed the shove-a-microphone-into-a-stranger’s-face technique for several decades now. The Tonight Show has a long history of quizzes and gotcha-type moments exposing some level of ignorance in the public. I’m particularly interested in these street interviews when the setting is the historically black Harlem neighborhood in …