Asher Klein
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Blogs,
Bleader
Dec 18, 2012
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How good is Kimmy Walters, aka @arealliveghost, at Twitter? I once responded to a really great tweet with a marriage proposal. We didn't know each other.
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By Asher Klein
- Tags: Things I Love, Arts, The Internet, People Week, Variations on a Theme, Twitter, Kimmy Walters, @arealliveghost, Weird Twitter, poetry, People Issue 2012, People Issue
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There's only one place in Chicago to play futsal, a stylish indoor offshoot of soccer
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Blogs,
Bleader
Dec 10, 2012
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Joining Twitter is like throwing a dinner party for people you think are super interesting. See? There's nothing to be afraid of.
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By Asher Klein
- Tags: The Internet, Twitter, explainers, Luddites, social media, social networks, Donald Trump, metaphors, Kanye West, @Chicago_Reader, Twitter jokes, Twitter explainer, keep calm and carry on, Twitter lurking, lurking, dinner parties, fun
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Blogs,
Bleader
Nov 30, 2012
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As long as there isn't one newspaper for the Web, we'll be skimming just to find what we want to read. That's where TL;DR helps.
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By Asher Klein
- Tags: Shots Fired, The Internet, Media, News, TL;DR, reading, newspapers, media, the Internet, the Web, Too Long Didn't Read, e-newstands, reading news
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Blogs,
Bleader
Nov 23, 2012
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Pressured by consumers' near-infinite selection of news to read, newspapers and other media companies need to consider summaries as the best way to earn clicks
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Blogs,
Bleader
Nov 21, 2012
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Am I the only one who thinks you could switch a few nationalities in the new Red Dawn and have a documentary of America's invasion of Afghanistan?
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By Asher Klein
- Tags: Crime, Shots Fired, Film, war, Red Dawn, invasions, America, Afghanistan, Drew Hunt, insurgency, Red Army, protest films
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Blogs,
Bleader
Nov 16, 2012
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How Jennifer Egan's New Yorker story presaged the insidious Gaza PR war being waged over social media
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By Asher Klein
- Tags: Foreign, Media, News, Gaza, Twitter, Jennifer Egan, Israel, Israeli Defense Force, Palestine, Hamas, @IDFSpokesperson, Middle East, Twitter war, flame war, Gaza invasion, armies, social media, digital warfare, the New Yorker, Al-Qassam Bridages
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Blogs,
Bleader
Nov 16, 2012
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RIP MTV's excavation of YOLO culture that has fewer viewers than El Paso has residents.
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Blogs,
Bleader
Nov 12, 2012
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After 51 years, the Seminary Co-op moved out of the labyrinthine basement that made it famous. Grab a ball of twine and take one last look.
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Blogs,
Bleader
Nov 9, 2012
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A couple of new and interactive web comics may point the way to the future of graphic novels online
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By Asher Klein
- Tags: Books, Jumping Ship, Arts, The Internet, graphic novels, Chris Ware, Alison Bechdel, Joe Sacco, comics, the Internet, voting, hyperlinks, hypertext
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Blogs,
Bleader
Nov 7, 2012
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This is the cover we'd have run if Romney-the-President had appealed to Latinos, unmarried women, and young people
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Blogs,
Bleader
Nov 7, 2012
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A servicewoman, an esteemed dietician, and a mayoral hopeful were in the ecstatic and relieved crowd for Obama's acceptance speech last night
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Blogs,
Bleader
Nov 2, 2012
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Chicago Works is a new public service app that lets citizens make and track their 311 requests. Now if only I could get it to work . . .
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Blogs,
Bleader
Nov 1, 2012
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Bro code lies at the center of an episode of Underemployed that suggests it's women hold each other back in the work place. MTV! It's post-feminist.
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By Asher Klein
- Tags: Arts, Television, Underemployed, bros, bro code, homoeroticism, nipples, MTV, feminism, Gloria Steinem, advertising
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Blogs,
Bleader
Oct 31, 2012
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Here's what you missed at the Reader's Honest Truth debate
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Arts & Culture,
Culture Vultures
Oct 30, 2012
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Simon Boccanegra at Lyric, Argo, and Human Landscapes at Joffrey
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Blogs,
Bleader
Oct 30, 2012
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With lots of reporters holed up inside, Hurricane Sandy showed that news doesn't always happen as fast as it can spread online
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Blogs,
Bleader
Oct 29, 2012
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Catch a live stream of our Honest Truth party/debate, the clearest-eyed politics talk this side of Lincoln vs. Douglas
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By Asher Klein
- Tags: Broken, Politics, News, debate, debating, truth, Abraham Lincoln, honesty, beer, politics, Barack Obama, Video
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Blogs,
Bleader
Oct 29, 2012
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Here's a really cool map that shows the massive extent of Hurricane Sandy
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Blogs,
Bleader
Oct 26, 2012
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Chicago's supposed tech boom hasn't made much noise in the last couple of years. What hope is there that jobs are on the way?
