This Is Awl Version .02
Oh, some iterations here today on the site itself. As we said early on, we are not going to get too attached to our digital face. It will change and we will experiment ceaselessly. Some things will...
View ArticleWelcome The Faster Times
Oh ho, a bit later than promised, now The Faster Times is live! I don’t quite know what to do with it yet and I’m not sure why it’s faster but I’m clicking on things. Oooh, I hit “surprise me” and it...
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What's Wrong with "People of Wal-Mart"
I went home to think about this new “People of Wal-Mart” blog overnight before I went off half-cocked. In the end: I’m not a fan, I think! And that’s a hard and maybe slightly indefensible thing to...
View ArticleMSNBC Loves Dan Abrams
So Gawker publishes the pictures of the crazed contractors over at the US Embassy in Afghanistan. What do you do if you’re a major TV network, and want to cover it? If you’re MSNBC, you have on a...
View ArticleJust Faces! It's Okay!
It’s the first new Tumblr in ages with photos about a certain kind of thing in a certain kind of way that hasn’t offended me! (I’m looking at you, Black People at Wal Mart on Facebook on Public...
View ArticleFinally, A Website For Homosexuals
Awl pal Rod Townsend has started a website for homosexuals. He’s staking out the “postfabulous” space, which I’m pretty sure I’m not in (I’m either pre-fabulous or so post-fabulous I can’t remember...
View ArticleA Non-Porn Website for Men
“Working at Goldman Sachs isn’t inherently unethical; but-” -And that’s when I clicked CLOSE TAB on the first article I randomly selected to read in the new non-profit magazine Good Men Project....
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Big Newspaper Just Dying on the Internet
“The number one video on MiamiHerald.com last year got about 26,000 views and was a feature on how to handle frozen iguanas.” —That comes from this tribute to the success of the Miami Herald in doing...
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Please Welcome The Wirecutter
The Wirecutter is a new website designed to do one thing: to tell you what the best particular product in a category is at any given moment. It is a project of Brian Lam, late of Gizmodo. Do you want...
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Rich Kids Of The Internet: Inside The Astounding Troll-Hole That Is Elite Daily
The website Elite Daily is “the premier online destination for aspiring men and women alike.” It is the first true editorial product of the post-sex-tape era. It specializes in two kinds of...
View ArticleI Guess The Good News Is At Least We All Have A Common Enemy Now
Like, I'm gonna name my next publication Foot-Binding. Right after Corset and Girdle and On My Knees. — Nicole Lee (@nicole) August 14, 2013 I thought this whole thing, about this man who was finally...
View ArticleFinally, A Website Where Parents Can Vent Their Frustrations
“The website, which launched last week, is a safe and anonymous space where parents can let off some steam or even have a laugh at other people’s confessions…”
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Introducing… Shirterate
People often ask us what’s next for our company. We’ve spent a lot of time surveying the Internet landscape, and, while the land rush into the content arena has been gratifying to watch for those of us...
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Content Distributed
Near the end of Mike Isaac’s boldly headlined piece on the fifty million dollars that BuzzFeed has raised from the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and what it plans to do with it, he notes:...
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