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“Racists Getting Fired” and the Desire to Do Something to About Ferguson
[Meredith Haggerty is a writer and editor from Brooklyn who will be guest blogging for TLDR. Her work has appeared on The Daily Dot, Matter, The Hairpin and Fast Company. She wants you to hang out,...
View ArticleSomebody Think of the (Internet Famous) Children
The Internet is, in many ways, for teens. From popular YouTubers to Instagram celebrities to Vine stars to bloggers, some of the biggest stars of the web are too young to drink. But how can a regular...
View Article#39 - Little Sh*ts
For the past three years Alanah Pearce has been reviewing video games on YouTube. Like other women doing just about anything publicly online, she gets harassed, and in the past she just hasn't replied....
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#CrimingWhileWhite: How Should an Ally Be?
Last night, following yet another failed indictment against police for the death of a black American, a number of hashtags were trending on Twitter. There was #BlackLivesMatter, popularized after...
View ArticleLittle Trolls
For the past three years Alanah Pearce has been reviewing video games on YouTube. Like other women doing just about anything publicly online, she gets harassed, and in the past she just hasn't replied....
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Blog to... Novel?: Five Internet Personalities Turned Fiction Writers...
Zoe Sugg is a 21-year-old fashion and beauty blogger from England known on her YouTube channel as “Zoella” – and she is also the author of a smash hit novel, Girl Online. In its first week, Girl Online...
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JakeDate.com Nails App Marketing, Reminds Us That Tech is Boring
The latest in dating is here: JakeDate, an app that allows you to finally connect – with Jake.JakeDate.com, created by the GroupThink Group, is a parody of both dating apps and the over designed...
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Unicode, Ophiuchus, and a Surprisingly Goth Emoji Poem
Over the weekend, Kelly Williams Brown of the blog Adulting* made a discovery: when you hover over an emoji in the Messages app on an Apple computer, the proper name of that emoji pops up. Even some...
View Article#40 - Tinder Bros
The first message you send to a Tinder match can determine the rest of your relationship. To ease this pressure, some men on the internet have taken to their favorite forums to crowdsource the perfect...
View ArticleWe Don't Want to Be Prevented From Posting Drunken Facebook Photos
The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Lab is working to make Facebook even smarter. Yes, this is a real thing that exists outside of my nightmares about our dystopian future, and one of their...
View Article#illridewithyou and Rising Beyond Clicktivism
In the wake of the hostage situation that took place over the course of 18 hours in Sydney, Australia a hashtag rose up on Twitter, #illridewithyou. What does riding have to do with the locked down...
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Instagrammar: Why Adding Periods to Instagram Notifications Makes Users Feel...
On December 9th, Instagram offered an update to its app. It promised "bug fixes and performance improvements" but users identified one small change en masse: the addition of a period to the end of...
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New Bot Eliminates the Need for Writers, Writing
Internet artist Darius Kazemi is almost absurdly prolific. He is the creator of delightful bots like Miraculous Pics, which pairs snippets of text with beautiful online images including a stock photo...
View Article#41 - Tell Me How To Live My Life
Susan Miller, proprietor of Astrology Zone, is the biggest name in internet astrology. Her fans are many and devoted, and among them are both Meredith and Laura Mayer (this week's co-investigator)....
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One Hell(boy) of a Reddit Secret Santa
The best part of any Secret Santa is trying to unmask your generous benefactor. But one lucky Redditor didn't have to do much digging to put a giant face to the gift – his Satan Santa revealed himself...
View ArticleLocked Out of the Alt: Why One Woman Turned to Alt Twitter for a Room of Her...
Lily is a twenty-something American woman who says she has “been socializing on the internet since Compuserve days.” She started out on message boards, listservs, and LiveJournal when she was just a...
View ArticleDear Haruki: Japan’s Most Famous Novelist to Become Online Advice Columnist
Haruki Murakami’s Japanese publishing house, Shincosa, announced yesterday that the author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84 will be offering guidance to readers via his website. Fans will be able to send...
View Article#42 - GodTube
When Will Rogers discovered GodTube.com, he was bothered by the idea of Christians segregating themselves from the larger cultural conversation. So he set out to start a dialogue. Meredith talks to...
View ArticleShip Your Enemies Glitter Delivers on a Beautiful Promise
I’m hesitant to write about Ship Your Enemies Glitter, because it means my enemies will know that I know about the site, and I will thus be implicated in any future glitter shipments. Still, the new...
View ArticleTweet to a Grecian Urn: Behind #TwitterPoetryClub
For poetry lovers, Twitter might not seem like an ideal medium -- the character limit, the formal constraints, the, um, not-so-elevated discourse. But where other see a social media site in total...
View Article#43 - Hey Ladies
If you've ever been a bridesmaid, in a sorority, or just been friends with two or more women, you have probably received an off-the-wall planning email or two. Caroline Moss and Michelle Markowitz have...
View ArticleUser Experience: One Star
User Experience is a new series where we talk to real people about the way they use the Internet -- and how it makes them feel. Share your own user experiences in the comments, or tweet them...
View ArticleHelpful Synonyms for All of LinkedIn’s “Most Overused” Words
Today, LinkedIn released a list of their user’s most overused words for 2014. Apparently, all of the motivated, passionate and creative people on the business networking site are motivated, passionate...
View Article“Invisible Boyfriend” Expands Boyfriend Repertoire, Sets up Perfect Meet-Cute
You may have already heard about Invisible Boyfriend (and its counterpart, Invisible Girlfriend), a new service that allows lonely hearts and hilariousbloggers alike to purchase a custom-designed...
View ArticleUser Experience: A Call for Users
There are some Google Alerts it makes sense to have: your company or place of business, your favorite band or sports team, your own name (admit it), your city + "apocalyptic blizzard." But there are...
View Article#44 - Prostitute Laundry
Charlotte Shane writes a TinyLetter called Prostitute Laundry, writing frankly and lyrically about her feelings, her relationships, her body and her sex lives -- both personal and professional. This...
View ArticleUser Experience: Weird Google Alerts
User Experience is a new series where we talk to real people about the way they use the Internet -- and how it makes them feel. Share your own user experiences in the comments, or tweet them @TLDR.On...
View ArticleThe Corrector
A friend told Jon Delfin “you can’t fix the world,” and Deflin agrees – but with, as he is likely to make, an important amendment. “I don't think that means you have to leave all of it alone,” he...
View ArticleDown the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole: The Game!
Finally, something that can pull you out of the Wikipedia rabbit hole you've been lost to: a board game about Wikipedia rabbit holes! Linknotize is a new game in the spirit of Six Degrees of Kevin...
View ArticleDown the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole: The Game: The Solutions!
Yesterday, we told you about a new game called Linknotize, a board game about linking Wikipedia entries, and then played our own version -- with some of the best Wikipedia entries in existence. A few...
View ArticleJeb Bush Published Every Email He Received as Governor
As Jeb Bush gears up for 2016, he is positioning himself as a transparent and accessible leader – and he’s starting by publishing all of the emails he received from constituents between 1999 and 2007....
View ArticleUser Experience: Content You Hate
Last Monday, the 16th, we tweeted and Facebook-posted a question: what do you do about content you don't like online? Do you hate fave or hate share? Do you block or unfollow the person posting it? Do...
View Article#46 - Episode 45 Redux
The last episode of TLDR was titled "Quiet, Wadhwa." It concerned a man named Vivek Wadhwa, but we did not ask him for comment. The episode was later removed.This week we look at the controversy we've...
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Vicemo Shows Who's Paying for Drugs, Booze, and Sex
There is one reliably good joke on Venmo, and it's not about Lucas anymore. Venmo is a payment sharing app that allows users to easily and directly pay their friends for anything from cabs to food to...
View ArticleReminder: Anyone Can Pay Money to Bug You on Facebook. Or Maybe Not.
This isn't a news alert, but it was news to us.As we recently discovered here in the On the Media office, Facebook privacy settings can be circumvented for a small fee, allowing users to send messages...
View Article#47 - JebBushforPresident.com
CJ Philips and Charlie Rainwater bought JebBushforPresident.com back in 2008 -- but not because they're huge Bush fans or want to sell the address at a markup. With the 2016 election approaching, the...
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What If We All Agree to Not Over Think The Dress?
"What is this dress, is it a trick being played on us by cool teens?"This was how my friend Beejoli said hello when I picked up her call last night. Thirty seconds earlier I had tweeted about The Dress...
View Article#48 -- Art Critics Love Us On Yelp
Brian Droitcour is a professional art critic, and a Yelp user. In 2012 he started using the popular review site to post his reactions to galleries and museums, using a distinctly un-art world-y voice....
View ArticleUser Experience: Feeling Calm Online
Last Monday, we asked you where you go online to feel calm, and now we are kicking this week off in the most laid back way possible. Plenty of you wrote in and told us you go offline to feel calm...
View ArticleThe Haunted Dolls of eBay
Everyone’s been there: you’re on a first date, it’s going well, you head back to their place… only to find that their bedroom is packed to the rafters with porcelain-headed, dead-eyed,...
View Article#49 - Do URL Believe in Magic?
What happens when you buy a magic spell on Etsy? Writer Jaya Saxena and her husband Matt Lubchansky recently tested one witch's wares, and they talk to TLDR about being careful what you wish for. Plus,...
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