Dear employers of the world, Stop cheaping out on the young ambitious people of the world by offering only “unpaid internships.” It’s class warfare anyway you cut it, and unless you are quite literally a mom and pop establishment, I think you can afford to shell out $3,000 for a summer of exploitative work. Don’t [...]
Entries Tagged as 'boston'
against the tyranny of the unpaid internship
April 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Culture · art · boston · brown university · california · culture studies · free culture · ideas · lifestyle · politics
In Praise of the Goal
January 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment
At a recent Philadelphia Flyers game, in which I saw no less then eight goals (and no more than four fights) I came to the conclusion that not all sports are created equal. In some, scoring is something routine and expected, something that defines the pace of the game. In others scoring is something extraordinary, [...]
Tags: Culture · Sports · boston · culture studies · games · hockey
The Lansdowne Snow Impossible: Watching Boston’s Winter Classic
January 3rd, 2010 · No Comments
They announced that Boston would be hosting the 2010 Winter Classic back in April. I was ecstatic. Never a fan of hockey in high school, a few years of intramural ice time at Brown has made me a devoted fan of the sport. I have gone from hating hockey in every and all permutation to [...]
Tags: Culture · Sports · adventure · boston · hockey
Fort Hill: An Animated Poem
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: adventure · boston · film · video
digital technology & new media journalism
March 10th, 2009 · No Comments
its been a long time since i’ve read a paper copy of the new york times. its been an even longer time since i read a copy of the boston globe. yet everyday, i manage to peruse these publications in great depth, because their websites have become better and better, and i am spending more [...]
Tags: Internet · boston · culture studies · media · new york · technology · visualization
back to the future (of narrative) mit-edition
November 19th, 2008 · No Comments
here is a story about stories; with a question about whether stories are still stories and whether we are beginning to live in a post-story age. the already cool mit media lab has founded a “center for future storytelling.” the purpose of this “labette” as the initiative is described, is to engage in studying and [...]
Tags: Culture · Internet · boston · culture studies · data culture · film · free culture · media · semiotics · technology
into the west, notes on the journey to san francisco (flowers in hair not included)
October 11th, 2008 · No Comments
i hate when I have to publish stuff out of order, but now’s when i have the break, and it seemed a little more important to blog about lawrence lessig when i had the chance. so. i have finally escaped the northeast united states. the last time i did that was almost two years ago, [...]
Tags: adventure · boston · california
towards a new aesthetics of information, the bestiario interface for berkman@10
September 22nd, 2008 · 7 Comments
echoes of my time at the berkman center for internet society continue to reverberate in my life, despite my distance from the sunny side streets of cambridge, and my re-enmeshment into life as a student at brown university. tomorrow (well actually it looks like it’s technically today) is one web day, the earth day for [...]
Tags: Internet · boston · data culture · semiotics · technology · visualization
i just want to be a yuppie
August 25th, 2008 · No Comments
it’s time for me to come to grips with myself. it’s time for me to admit it to myself, i want to be a yuppie. yep, that’s a right a goddamn yuppie. i’m not talking about a moderate yuppie. i am not talking a semi or a psuedo yuppie. not someone who kinda lives in [...]
Tags: Culture · boston · funny · lifestyle
in the spirit of the the olympics, how i learned to row from an olympic all-star
August 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
it has been an enchanting summer working at the berkman center for internet & society. everyday, i get to hang out with some of the most brilliant people on the planet. we talk, we write (emails), we blog, we laugh, we play rock band. and when things need to get done, we stay late hyped [...]