Here's a 21st Century story about the speed with which an innocent joke becomes a roaring Twitter meme and just as quickly dies in the GIF wastelands of Tumblr.
The State Department's latest counterterrorism effort is apparently an Internet trolling (no, we're not kidding) initiative called Viral Peace. From whom should the government learn to troll?
Today in books and publishing: Anna Karenina fashion; Jane Austen's ring; Katie Roiphe on Sheila Heti; a medieval manuscript recovered in a garage.
As we watched Colin Powell sing "Call Me Maybe" on CBS This Morning, a little piece of us died. These trend-killers, or, as we here dub them "trenemies," must be stopped.
Girl World is the unseen parallel dimension where women wage a forever war between shifting alliances in a John Connor-less dystopia.
The freakout over a Tina Brown Newsweek cover story is basically becoming a cliché at this point, but the addition of Slate's contrarian-at-large Katie Roiphe made this week's troll-bait all but irresistible.
I read Newsweek's much-discussed Katie Roiphe article, "Spanking Goes Mainstream," so you don't have to.
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