Submissions by alexismadrigal

At least 4 companies offer surreal cyborg telemarketing services.

Rdio's lead designer got his start designing a Mandy Moore *Winamp* skin.

Ebook of Tech Essays from The Atlantic

The real 'Instagram for video' may be Picle: a still + 10 seconds of audio.

All the spam in the world may only generate $200 million in revenue.

Statistical analysis shows Romney's new Twitter followers are fake

What if mobile ads just don't — and will never — work?

"Captain Tushin ... sat down by a bonfire the soldiers had nookd on the road"

So what if Facebook fell 10% today? Here's the long-term case *for* Facebook.

The tweet that begins the zombie apocalypse.

Why do people publish those idiotic videogame scare stories?

G+ is a failure, but here's how Google beats Facebook on social anyway.

Remembering the one thing Google Wave was good for: that Pulp Fiction thing.

How I found out how that 105 companies were tracking me on the web.

Why you can ignore CES: an investigation into last year's overhyped tablets.

Facebook and Apple realize a dying Kodak's original vision.

Proto YouTube: How 1970s Video Collectives Anticipated Our Strange Internet