Jenna Wortham Quotes
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SoundCloud took a community-first approach to building its business, prioritizing finding artists to post on its service over making deals with music labels to license their music, the approach taken by Spotify.
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The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.
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We live in a time of astounding technological advancements. There are deep-sea drones and live-streaming virtual reality.
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We may have a tacit understanding of how our solar system works, but watching the sun disappear behind the moon reminds us of the vastness of space and the enduring mysteries of the universe we inhabit.
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For all the advances in tech that let us try on various guises to play around with who we are, it seems that we just want new ways to be ourselves.
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Generally speaking, the business of music streaming is treacherous at best: Consumers don't seem to want to pay big money for access to digital music services, so companies must keep the fees low.
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Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art.
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Getting a tattoo is arguably one of the most insane decisions a sensible human can make.
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The Internet has become the go-to place to toss out ideas in the hope that they could lead to a job, but it has also become the place where people go to find the best ideas, creating a lopsided dynamic that tends to benefit people in power.
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Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.
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I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country.
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Learning to live with not meeting other people's expectations has been extremely freeing and is the only gift I wish to pass on to any future offspring.
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Best-friend tattoos require so much prep work, which adds to their legitimacy. First, a friendship must be deep enough to warrant the rite; then the perfect symbol must be found to forge the bond.
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As Twitter allows you to curate who shows up in your stream - you only see the people you follow or seek out, and those they interact with - users can create whatever world of people they want to be a part of.
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When I was a kid, 'Quantum Leap' was one of my favorite TV shows.
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The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.
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Obama was the first American president to see technology as an engine to improve lives and accelerate society more quickly than any government body could.
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Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.
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Luckily, my only responsibility for 'Still Processing' is to show up and talk.
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I'm not ashamed to admit that for many years, most of my fitness information came from a VHS series by MTV called ''The Grind Workout.''
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For all teenagers, the Internet offers a periscope to the outside world, but it's particularly important for students who are unable to find themselves represented and understood in their immediate surroundings.
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The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.
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People in tech love to see their work as embodying the 'hacker ethos': a desire to break systems down in order to change them. But this pride can often be conveyed rather clumsily.
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It wasn't always easy - getting dumped by my female friends for their newfound boyfriends, husbands, girlfriends stung; I felt like a jilted lover, heartbroken and wondering what I'd done wrong. But it was also easier to forgive them, to accept what time and energy they were willing to offer, even if it was less than what I wanted.