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...tracks Web fads, viral marketing campaigns and the flash-mob phenomenon - which Wasik himself created - to determine just how little staying power trends have when faced with our fractured, hyperactive attention spans. Wasik talks to TIME about his findings, and why he can't stop looking at his RSS reader. (Read about how the Internet changed music...
...studying the Internet and viral trends, and you claim that everything moves too quickly. Isn't writing a book about that sort of counterintuitive? That is the paradox. While I was writing the book, I had to be constantly thinking about what a reader two years down the road would find funny and interesting. I think the lag time works because what I'm trying to get across is that we get so drunk with excitement about the little trends and stories that flit through our lives, but if you look at them in retrospect even a month down...
Have you done that yourself? I'm trying to, but it's difficult. I love the novelty just as much as everybody else does. It's very, very hard for me to look away from my RSS reader with its constant stream of new stories or new takes on stories. I'm very much into what everybody else is interested in at any given point in time...
Dehareng's blog has a small but active base of commenters. A picture depicting bored women eating a candleless cake inspired one reader to note, "The cake sucks, the trashy candleholder is pathetic ... but I love the decorations on top of the air conditioner." And the three teenage girls with hair hanging in their faces? A reader reached back to the '90s with "The Hansons wonder what happened to their careers...
...Randall grew up in New York City in the 1970s and attended Stuyvesant High School, a magnet school that focuses on math and science. In her early years, she was interested in a wide array of subjects. Though she described herself as a voracious reader, she was particularly drawn to math...