(Editor’s note: We first published this conversation between Big Other contributor’s John Domini and Amber Sparks in 2010.) Part…
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There was an interesting piece on the New Yorker blog a few days ago about a new video performance piece…
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At first when I read this in Tech Crunch, I was depressed: The appeal of Instagram is, for lack of…
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