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10 Web Trends To Watch In 2010
By Pete Cashmore for CNN: Editor’s note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He is writing a weekly column about social networking and tech for CNN.com....
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Via Mediapunk: Here are the five media trends I’m watching and will focus on in future articles on this site: Sources and advertisers going direct Context is King Journalist as brand Reporting as...
View ArticleTeen Werewolves In Texas
Somewhere in between goth, occult, and furries: San Antonio’s KENS 5 reports on the teens-who-identify-as-werewolves trend.
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Is Twitter Suppressing Discussion Of WikiLeaks?
Ah the irony: social networking sites were heralded as the savior of democracy, transparency, and change — but perhaps that’s only the case when the villain is conveniently a U.S. enemy such as Iran....
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Police Warn Of Growing Teen ‘Vodka Tampon’ Use
Time to check in on the latest youth trends: teens (both girls and boys) are increasingly using liquor-soaked tampons as a novel and stealthy means of getting drunk. A number of Facebook pages have...
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Why Do Girls Wear Pink?
No, it’s not an immutable law of nature. In the 1920s, retailers began encouraging pink (a strong color) for boys and blue (a dainty one) for girls, before the trend reversed after World War II. For...
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New York Entangled In Yarn Graffiti
The New York Times reports on “yarn bombing”, the softest, coziest form of urban vandalism. Leave your bike parked for too long and it could end up like the one at right, which has been chained for...
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In Defense of the Hipster
PART ONE: WHAT IS A HIPSTER, AND WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE THEM? or: YOU’RE SO FAKE (AND SO AM I) My name is Tuna Ghost and I have a confession: I’m a hipster. One may think this is a self-defeating...
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Gerald Celente’s Dire Predictions For 2012
Gerald Celente Gerald Celente of Trends Research International has a habit of predicting nasty events before they happen. He just emailed us his selection of 12 things we’d rather not see in 2012: One...
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The Dark, Traumatized Pop Music Of 2012
Writing for The Quietus, Ryan Diduck looks at the recent ascendancy of haunted, bleak indie musical acts (Zola Jesus, Burial, A$AP Rocky, Fever Ray) and sub-genres, what he calls our new “cultural...
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The Chic Style For Summer: Anarchist Apparel
Fashion as a form of news media? Or an example of how a youth movement is disarmed? Trend Hunter highlights the weaving of Occupy and rioter imagery into designer clothing this summer: The Commune de...
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On Bringing Survivalism Into Mainstream Suburbia
The New York Times examines the booming business of selling preparedness for societal breakdown, with more and more Americans worried that civilization may be on the verge of collapse in the wake of...
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Bacon, the American Eucharist
Picture: Dbenbenn (PD) John Ozersky ponders the reasons for bacon’s stranglehold on American culture at Time: Taste Bacon does have a distinct, wonderful taste, as everyone knows. But you can’t really...
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Cultural Shifts And Styles To Come In The 2010s
As we begin 2013, here’s DIS Magazine looking forward to our happy, creepy future: For humanity, gender bending will extend down generationally, all the way to the unborn. Gender for infants will be...
View ArticleIBM Forecasts Steampunk As Next Big Thing
Clearly the IBM trend analysts haven’t been allowed to visit the likes of Dragon*Con or Comic-Con in recent years as they’re just now realizing that it’s a real trend: Based on an analysis of more than...
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Is Psychedelic Toad Licking Trending Among German Teens?
So claims an article in the country’s paper of record. The point is that fighting a war on drugs will become increasingly surreal as the ways in which people get high multiply. From Der Spiegel:...
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Are Social Networking Websites Doomed?
Social networking was supposed to gradually take over more and more aspects of our lives, but instead it may peter out into a sea of old people “liking” promotional posts from corporations. The answer...
View ArticleSuicide Deaths Spike Among Middle-Aged Americans
Any ideas, disinfonauts? … Read the restThe post Suicide Deaths Spike Among Middle-Aged Americans appeared first on disinformation.
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The Emerging Speculative Genre Of “Cli Fi”
Is environmental change poised to thrust us into new worlds? NPR writes: Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow is the latest in what seems to be an emerging literary genre. Over the past decade, more...
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In Japan, Getting Plastic Surgery On Your Palms To Influence Your Destiny
Hazards of the procedure: the surgeon misunderstands palm reading, and inadvertently puts a curse on you. Fox News reports: Japanese intent on changing their fate have begun having plastic surgery to...
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