Sarah Austin.
News, comments and interviews around micro fame online. Pop17 is a two-to-three minute daily exploration to track, analyze and understand the new cultural phenomenon of online micro-celebrity. Who are these new influentials? What are their stories? How have they leveraged their online successes? These are the kinds of questions we will explore everyday at Pop17. Grab an RSS feed! Or you can find me on Twitter and YouTube.
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Of course, a century ago and even less, ranchers in sparsely settled sections of the West used to get mail-order brides. That seems to me similar to buying books online, and equally likely to lead to customer dissatisfaction.
— Charles Rosen, via NYRblog: The Lost Pleasure of Browsing (via langer)
