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Video: bigMETHOD Speaks with Sheena Beaston

By zoe | Published: May 21, 2009
Welcome, welcome. We’re starting something new here on our site – a video series; and here’s the skinny on it. Everyone’s online these days, but to each person individually the Internet has its own flavor and uses. So, what does the world of social media mean to you? We want to know. Throughout [...]
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The Pirate Bay: Bringing Food to the Victims

By zoe | Published: May 20, 2009
Even if you’re not glued to the internet, you’ve probably heard of The Pirate Bay.  Once the 106th most visited site on the internet (the entire internet), the site and its owners have been tangled in legal proceedings since May 2006 when Swedish police raided their offices and seized their servers.  Granted, they were hosting [...]
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Facebook Has PORN COPS?

By zoe | Published: May 5, 2009
Facebook has ‘PORN COPS’! Seriously, though – according to the Newsweek article, Facebook has 150 people employed to keep the site clean. Along with the obvious obscenity no-no’s of drugs, nudity and pornography, apparently there are semiformal rules, which they have coined as the “Fully Exposed Butt Rule, the Crack Rule and [...]
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I Have NO SERVICE: I MIGHT Have a Panic Attack

By zoe | Published: April 21, 2009
On a scale of 1-10 – how bad is your anxiety when your internet-accessing phone isn’t getting service?  I was just at Coachella this past weekend and in hindsight it’s rather humorous how much time I spent flicking, hitting, removing my battery, shaking, violently pressing buttons, screaming at my blackberry every time it presented [...]
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