Skip navigation

Category Archives: internet

old news

October 18, 2008 – 3:24 am

On Xark! this week, eloquent media blogger Dan wrote what I think is the best article yet as to why the business of metro newspaperin’ is soon to be obsolete.
I remember attending convention after convention in the wake of the brand new brand of journalism: The Weblog. Frantic press junkies asked the same question over [...]

By sophie | Also posted in journalism, media, politics, upside down | Comments (1)

milk cartons

June 28, 2008 – 11:30 pm

So I’ve been teaching first graders here in Phoenix, Arizona. Here are some facts about Phoenix:
 

There are cool bicycle riders and cool vegan food here, even though it seems like cool vegans and cool bike riders should not be in Phoenix.
It’s the fifth largest city in the United States. I don’t understand this. Sometimes it [...]

By sophie | Also posted in race, upside down | Comments (1)

missing in action

March 28, 2008 – 9:07 pm

I kind of dropped the ball last week, and I’m sorry. There are many perfectly good reasons for it, though, and I thought I might detail them for you so you can feel like you’re more involved in my life.
news.
My life mentor, Salim Muwakkil, came to speak at Whitman this week, which was a [...]

By sophie | Also posted in animal rights, art, barack obama, media, mp3, race, racism, upside down | Leave a Comment

updates

March 17, 2008 – 3:30 am

In an effort to bring upside down again back to its old daily standard, I’m proposing a topic-per-day schedule. This is pending the signing on of the ever-brilliant Chris Tognotti (as close as you’ll ever come to a real NBA expert) and/ or any other possible contributors.Starting tomorrow (yes, tomorrow), the format of upside down [...]

By sophie | Leave a Comment

bullshit

February 1, 2008 – 6:42 am

Gawker.com recently posted a rather brilliant “Field Guide to Tumblr” — which is essentially a less text-heavy blogging utility site that allows users to post the weird, funny shit they find on the Internet. With a greater emphasis on design, too, Tumblr is necessarily what Gawker admits is “like LiveJournal for privileged white 20-somethings.” In [...]

By sophie | Also posted in art, media | Leave a Comment

redesign

January 16, 2008 – 5:28 am

With the redesign, upsidedownagain.com announces a shift from the the purely political to a fusion between the old stuff and some new, purely pop culture items. We’re working on building some new top 10s and upping the ante on our lay-out, so stay tuned.

By sophie | Leave a Comment

heeding headlines

August 16, 2007 – 2:43 pm

I opened the newspaper today and here were the leading headlines:

The New York Times: Powerful Earthquake Rocks Peru; Parents Warned Cough Medicines May Imperil Infants; Iraq Toll at 250 In The Deadliest Attack of the War
The Washington Post: Rattled Stock Markets Continue to Fall; Use of Spy Satellites to Widen; Texas Bracing for Floods as [...]

By sophie | Also posted in journalism, media, politics | Comments (2)

rovin’ good time

August 14, 2007 – 3:06 pm

In the spirit of Karl Rove’s resignation, spend the morning after (as you nurse your hangover from last nights He’s-Finally-Gone bash) reading this very funny Karl Rove rap, via the wyvern920 Web site. A sample:
Now listen up suckers
Don’t get the jitters
But MC Rove tears the head off critters
That’s true, it’s cruel to see
But he’s gonna [...]

By sophie | Also posted in Bush administration, karl rove, media, politics | Comments (3)

newspaper, news again

July 5, 2007 – 3:35 pm

Today Slate.com ran an editorial on the plummeting profits of the print journalism industry, and optimistically touted the idea that “If we’re lucky, it will look something like the newspaper of the past.”
That would take a lot of luck.
The article examined case studies of copies of the Washington Post and the New York Times since [...]

By sophie | Also posted in journalism, media | Leave a Comment