PJ Vogt appears in the following:
#28 - No Trail
Thursday, June 05, 2014
SavedYouAClick Defuses Clickbait Headlines
Thursday, June 05, 2014
@SavedYouAClick is a Twitter account that retweets news outlets clickbait-y headlines and spoils the fake mysteries they've concocted.
If 5,000 People Retweet This I'll...
Wednesday, June 04, 2014
A lot of what happens on the internet is just what happens in high school, transposed onto a broader scale.
Two 12-Year Old Girls Tried to Murder Their Friend and Blamed it On an Internet Meme
Tuesday, June 03, 2014
Two young girls in Wisconsin stabbed their friend 19 times, and told police that it was to honor the mythological internet creature.
#27 - How Google is Killing the Best Site On the Internet
Monday, June 02, 2014
Walmart Jumps Into the Amazon v. Hachette Fight
Monday, June 02, 2014
Last week, we talked about how Amazon was delaying orders of Hachette books as a negotiation tactic in a pricing argument with the publisher. Walmart has now announced that they'll offer customers 40% off on all Hachette books and quick shipping.
The Social Network I Use Should Stop Making Changes Without First Consulting Me.
Friday, May 30, 2014
I like it better when the things I enjoy don't change. (Related).
Beware SHRTURL, A Tool Which Makes It Very, Very, Easy to Create Hoax Versions of Real Websites
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Shrturl.co is a site that lets you 'edit' any existing website and create a fake version of it with your own text.
Amazon Says It is Delaying Your Book Orders To Better Serve You
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Of all the ways to defend its tactics in its battle with the publisher Hachette, framing them as customer service feels like the least convincing one.
#YesAllWomen
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Coverage of this weekend’s mass shooting California has turned to the internet. As now almost always seems to be the case when a young man murders people, there’s a raft of stories investigating his “digital footprint.” A manifesto that ended up on Scribd, various anti-women postings on misogynist websites, the shooters’ own creepy YouTube screeds.
Clock Your Sleep: Winner Crowned
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
The results of the two-week sleep team challenge are in, and a winner will be crowned. Tune in to hear which team won - was it team Digital Detox, led by New Tech City's Manoush Zomorodi? The Vice Squad, captained by On the Media's PJ Vogt and Brooke Gladstone? Or was it Rock Your Routine, led by The Takeaway host John Hockenberry?
#26 - A Gold Bottle of Champagne The Size of An Adult Human Man
Friday, May 23, 2014
Health Inspectors Are Using Yelp Reviews To Target Dirty Restaurants
Friday, May 23, 2014
The Center for Disease Control says that NYC health inspectors have been using Yelp reviews to ferret out local restaurants which were giving patrons food poisoning.
Battle of the Zzzzs: The Home Stretch
Thursday, May 22, 2014
All The Worst People Would Like the Internet To Forget Them
Friday, May 16, 2014
A child pornographer; a disgraced politician; an attempted murderer. These are the first people who've shown up in the wake of an E.U. court ruling, to get information about themselves removed from the internet.
Flappy Bird's Creator Says The Game Will Return But Be Less Addictive
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Flappy Bird is coming back in August.
Clock Your Sleep: Battle of the Zzzzs
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
The two-week sleep team challenge has begun. Follow along and Clock Your Sleep. The WNYC hosts leading the sleep teams are: Manoush Zomorodi, host of New Tech City and captain of sleep team Digital Detox, Brooke Gladstone, host of On the Media, PJ Vogt, associate producer of On the Media, co-creator of TLDR, and co-captain of Vice Squad and John Hockenberry, host of The Takeaway and captain of team Rock Your Routine. They report on their team's progress.
The Applebee's-Only Social Networking App is A Hoax, Of Course.
Friday, May 09, 2014
TGIF, hopefully this will be the last silly internet story of the week.
Good Morning! Go ASCII Yourself, Please.
Friday, May 09, 2014
#25 - Monsters
Thursday, May 08, 2014
