Monthly Archives: December 2009

A Tree Falls in the Woods: Avatar as the First “Post-9/11″ Film

When you’re not a professional film reviewer, when you don’t live in New York, when the only advance screenings you attend involve a doctor doing something untoward—when these things are true, trying to write about a new film can seem almost useless: The pros get all the good meat, and you’re left to dig around [...]

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URLs & Users

David Sklar’s claim that “people don’t care about URLs” (via Full Stop Interactive) seems like a wild overstatement, even taking “people” to mean “average” people. At one point, he might have been right, but people who know what’s up with URLs have long been training others, through the kind of informal technical support so many of [...]

Posted in Culture, Technology, Web | 1 Comment
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