links for 2011-03-23

"Nobody tweeted or blogged or e-mailed. They didn’t telephone either. Bereft of electricity, gasoline and gas, this tsunami-traumatized town did things the really old-fashioned way — with pen and paper". Nice story, but is "pen and paper" the "*really* old-fashioned way"? I mean, I'm about as technophile as you can get, and I use pen and paper every single day of my life.

"But Loco's online celebrity would really spread in December 2002, when Armin Meiwes was arrested for eating a man named Bernd Jürgen Brandes".

"The web is being fenced in too, by app stores that carefully control content and by walled gardens like Twitter and Facebook."

"The trouble is, we have no way of testing whether things really are different now - in other words, whether, in the absence of copyright, people would carry on creating."

Archive of photos from the late 1880s and 1890s from Deadwood and elsewhere. [via @Suburbman and with no zombies]

"What purpose does a printed student newspaper still serve? The only reason a student newspaper still exists in print is because the writers want to see their name in ink: to show to their parents and to add to their portfolios."