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| Oct 8, 2025 | Boulder author R.L. Maizes skewers cancel culture, social media, and sisterhood in new novel “A Complete Fiction” | There are a lot of social media platforms out there. There’s the usual lineup: Instagram, TikTok, Threads, whatever Twitter is calling itself this week. Then there’s the niche stuff: Strava for cyclists, Goodreads for readers, Discord for p... |
| Jun 26, 2025 | 33 new books you’ll want to read this summer from independent publishers | These are among the 33 new books coming this summer from independent publishers in 2025. (Courtesy of the publishers)
“The Seers” by Sulaiman Addonia (Coffee House Press)
Addonia’s sexy and stylistically bold novel follows Eritrean refugee ... |
| Aug 16, 2024 | Can We Finally Stop Pretending Elon Musk Is A “Free Speech Absolutist”? He’s Not | A challenge for the mainstream media: can you stop saying that Elon Musk is a free speech absolutist?
Over the past few years, we’ve had a number of posts highlighting just how laughable it is that Elon Musk claims that he’s a “free speech ... |
| Dec 8, 2023 | Things to do | 25 must-read books published in 2023 by independent presses | This year saw more than its share of bestselling, headline-making books, from memoirs by Prince Harry, Britney Spears and Jada Pinkett Smith to blockbuster novels by Zadie Smith, R.F. Kuang and Rebecca Yarros.
But there’s more to contempora... |
| Jul 30, 2021 | The Olympic Review: Fringe Sports Take Center Stage at Tokyo 2020 | I remember the night I fell in love with synchronized swimming. It was mid-summer and London 2012 had gripped the nation. I had just wobbled home from a drinking session of Olympic proportions, when I sprawled on the sofa, flicked on the TV... |
| Nov 8, 2020 | New COVID Lockdown Triggers Fight Over Fate Of France’s Bookstores | A man walks past a closed bookstore in Paris on October 30, 2020, on the first day of a second ... [+] national general lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Ima... |
| Sep 3, 2019 | Satirical Takes on Higher Ed and Why They Matter | Scroll to the end to see a list of campus satires recommended by our guests this week.
What is your favorite satirical take on higher education? Maybe Jane Smiley’s “Moo.” Or Don DeLillo’s “White Noise”? Or it could be the movie “Back to Sc... |
| Oct 5, 2018 | Last Week In Venture: Tiny Raises, Moonshot Funding, And The MoviePass Cliffhanger | 21 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Hello and welcome to Last Week In Venture, the weekly roundup of rounds you may have missed.
This is a somewhat foreshortened edition of LWIV, because the Crunchbase News team has been hard at work ... |
| Aug 28, 2018 | WeTransfer is getting weird… | What do you do if you’re a European startup competing against the likes of Box and Dropbox, and are looking to make a splash in international markets like the U.S.?
Well, if you’re the Dutch startup WeTransfer (which raised a cool $25 milli... |
| Jan 24, 2018 | Founders Caterina Fake and Jyri Engeström make it official with a new venture fund, Yes VC | Caterina Fake and Jyri Engeström have much in common beyond the home and family they share. Each has started — and sold — two companies. Fake famously co-founded the photo-sharing site Flickr, which sold to Yahoo, before co-founding Hunch, ... |
| Aug 11, 2017 | Weekly News Roundup: August 11th 2017 | Weekly News Roundup – August 11th 2017 Scottish Tech News
Scottish Sports app Find A Player secures £100,000 investment
Faraday Grid, a disruptive electricity transaction platform, which allows users to buy and sell electricity from/to each... |
| Jun 14, 2017 | Patreon launches Snapchat clone just for creators’ paid subscribers | Ads aren’t enough to support professional online content makers. So Patreon is equipping them with new ways to organize, measure, and entertain fans who use its platform to pay them a monthly subscription fee for special access.
With 1 mill... |
| May 14, 2016 | Is it time for a presidential technoethics commission? | |
| Apr 21, 2016 | DHS Claims Open Source Software Is Like Giving The Mafia A Copy Of FBI Code; Hastily Walks Back Statement | Late last week, the DHS’s Chief Information Officer Luke McCormack (or someone from his office) posted comments to GitHub arguing against the proposed policy of making 20% of its code (whatever that means) open source in the interest of bet... |
| Jun 5, 2015 | The byte may destroy the book but the novel isn’t over yet | In This Will Destroy That, also known as Book V, Chapter 2 of Notre Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo presents his famous argument that it was the invention of the printing press that destroyed the edifice of the gothic cathedral. Stories, hopes a... |
| Jan 29, 2015 | What (Some) Silicon Valley Women Think Of Newsweek | I have thoughts on this Newsweek article.
Tech has some issues. You read trade pub stories about sexual harassment and assault allegations so often it’s absurd. Newsweek, which just discovered there are only a few women in tech, sent accomp... |
| Nov 9, 2014 | Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free | Cory Doctorow Contributor
Editor’s note: Cory Doctorow is a science-fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, as well as the co-editor of Boing Boing. The former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founder... |
| Nov 6, 2013 | McSweeney's Publishing House Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for $15. Yup. For $15. | November 6, 2013 2 min read
Aim low and you virtually guarantee success. And if you aim really, really low, then you can orchestrate a reason to bust out the champagne without having achieved much of anything at all.
So it is with the crowd... |
| Nov 6, 2013 | McSweeney’s Hopes To Celebrate Birthday With The Most Successful Crowdfunding Campaign Ever (Sort Of) | For its 15th birthday, San Francisco-based publishing house McSweeney’s is getting into the crowdfunding game with a crazy-sounding goal — a campaign “which we believe can be the most successful campaign of its kind.” What does that mean ex... |
| Oct 2, 2013 | Pulitzer Finalist Dave Eggers Denies Plagiarizing Ex-Facebooker’s Memoir | Last summer, Katherine Losse published a memoir called The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, which chronicled her time spent working for Facebook. The book made some waves, as it painted the early days of the social... |
| Sep 18, 2013 | Meet Fork, an Instagram for food porn lovers to share their own meals | If you’re on Instagram or Facebook, you likely have those friends who just love posting pictures of food they eat. In fact, even I am occasionally guilty of this practice, once making it onto the “Picture of Asians Taking Pictures of Food” ... |
| Jun 30, 2013 | Hate Comic Sans? Blame this Microsoft virtual assistant | The Windows 95 "Microsoft Bob" interface. Twenty years ago, not only did we write birthday letters, but they were so easy, a cartoon dog could tell us how to do it.
TopWindowsTutorials reader comments 169 with 112 posters particip... |
| Nov 16, 2012 | Timbuktu’s Educational App For Kids Relaunches With New Design & Daily Content | Timbuktu, an educational and entertainment-focused iPad app for kids has relaunched with a revamped design, additional content, and daily updates. Previously, the company, a recent 500 Startups grad, had been testing a more traditional maga... |
| Nov 7, 2012 | Startup News: Foursquare Plans Yelp’s Obsolescence and Brooklyn Tech Triangle Meets Its Maker | A pretty Mujjo case (Photo: Mujjo.com)
Checking In to the New Yelp Foursquare already set its sights on overtaking Yelp with the launch of its super useful local search engine. But its newest iOS update really goes for the jugular: Foursqua... |
| Aug 9, 2012 | Beck Needs Your Help To Hear To His Next Release, An Album Of Sheet Music | Nothing sells like scarcity. We've seen artists package their music in any number of new ways to make the infinite, well, less infinite. Collectors and afficionados of analog devices are picking up vinyl at a record (oh ha! and I didn&... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Prospectus for Silicon Valley's Next Hot Tech IPO | With people still talking about the mess of Facebook’s IPO, it’s been causing other companies problems as well — including a series of postponed IPOs. However, the folks over at McSweeney’s have uncovered the S-1 filing for what could possi... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Oh Goody, McSweeney’s Did a Kickstarter Page for Greece | If our calculations are correct, it took Yelp seven years to get the McSweeney’s treatment. The San Francisco company finally made its debut in 2011 with Alex Buckey’s brilliant, “Ernest Hemingway, Yelper.” As more evidence of the swelling ... |
| Nov 9, 2011 | Yelp Gives Its Chances of IPO-ing at More than $1 Billion Five Stars | Oh what, you wanna see my price range?
Now that Groupon tested the IPO waters and found them warm enough (stock dropped 4.8 percent, but is currently trading at $23.70), Yelp is ready to wade on in.
Earlier this week the online crowd-source... |
| Dec 23, 2010 | Google And NORAD Team Up Once Again To Track Santa | Needed any more sign that Christmas is upon us? The annual Google and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) partnership to track Jolly Saint Nick is back in action, starting tomorrow at 2:00 am EST despite the fact that it is alr... |
| Jul 8, 2010 | Cavs Owner Goes Online To Rip LeBron A New One… In Comic Sans | The national distraction is over. NBA star LeBron James has chosen the team he’s going to play for: the Miami Heat. Of course, this means that he won’t be returning to his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers and owner Dan Gilbert is not too happy ... |
| Dec 5, 2007 | How your neglected girlfriend would explain Halo 3 cheat codes | Unless your girlfriend is Samus Aran, in which case she would simply disintegrate you. Kotaku’s found a pretty funny McSweeney’s piece that describes, in a fairly funny way, how your better, cleaner half might explain those Halo 3 codes you... |
| Sep 20, 2006 | A Letter from the RIAA | By McSweeney
The Recording Industry Association of America has enriched your life through music since you were a baby. But now you betray us? We will destroy you. This is your notice that you will be sued for one of the following:
1. Downlo... |
| Mar 28, 2000 | The McSweeneys.net Saga | If you read NTK, you may have seen the story of the saving of McSweeneys.net last week. Now, Salon has written an article about the folks with last name McSweeney who decided to save a website they have no relation to. Look, it’s a dot com ... |
