Author: M. Irving

  • Ask Me Anything: How Reddit Perfected the Message Board

    Ask Me Anything: How Reddit Perfected the Message Board

    Reviewed in this essay: reddit.com‘s AMAs (Ask Me Anything). Buried somewhere under Web 2.0’s endless “personal branding” astroturf, under the rubble of busted dot-com shell companies, and under the dense bedrock of pornography, there lies net utopianism. But all is not lost. If McLuhan were around today and needed new grounds for optimistic futurism, here’s…