Once the domain of diaries, trusted friends and closets full of skeletons, secrets found a new outlet in 2005, when Frank Warren launched the website PostSecret.com. Since then, PostSecret has collected secrets—written on postcards and mailed anonymously to Warren’s home in Germantown, Maryland—and posted them online. To date, Warren has received over a half-million cards, […]
Hal Niedzviecki
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Niedzviecki watches the watchers in The Peep Diaries
If Broken Pencil founder and new-media thinker Hal Niedzviecki needed proof for his theories on “peep culture,” he should thank Michael Jackson. The circumstances surrounding Jackson’s death—the almost instantaneous delivery of news via celebrity gossip pariah TMZ and the subsequent traffic toll it took on social networking websites—is a perfect example of our obsession with […]
