Liz Gannes in Social on March 1 at 1:19 pm PT
All this time spent communicating digitally gives us “the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship,” according to psychologist Sherry Turkle.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 7, 2011 at 4:26 am PT
Two cool tributes: Some subdued words from Stewart and a very funny montage from Colbert.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 20, 2011 at 5:32 am PT
Plus a bonus PhoneGate clip: Stephen Colbert hands over his stage to the New York Times’ David Carr.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 20, 2011 at 7:15 am PT
“Now Amercians can whore themselves out on Facebook, instead of just whoring themselves out on Craigslist.” Not really a parody, actually.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 30, 2011 at 7:44 pm PT
I don’t think it’s laugh-out-loud funny, but the White House still gets credit for trying.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 10, 2011 at 8:39 am PT
Twitter’s pitch: Buy ads with us, and we’ll make your ads more valuable. Comedy Central gives it a shot with tonight’s “Comedy Awards”. And coming soonish, perhaps: embedded TV broadcasts on Twitter.com itself.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 5, 2011 at 5:40 am PT
Stephen Colbert was totally psyched to get the new, thinner iPad 2. But that was a couple minutes ago.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 18, 2011 at 4:56 am PT
Posting and reposting and posting about reposting…
Peter Kafka in Media on February 17, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
The News Corp. CEO has “the upper body strength of a cricket” and a tablet newspaper overly obsessed with very old dogs, he said. Plus! Meet the “Colbuffington Re-Post”.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 3, 2011 at 5:13 am PT
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were two of Hulu’s biggest draws until they left the video site last March. And it will cost Hulu $40 million or more to get them back.
