After 200 posts and 4 1/2 years, my site has received a refresh. Take a look—what do you think?
Introducing the JasonCochran.com Redesign—Now It’s Your Turn
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Why I’m Leaving Facebook—And the Reason May Surprise You
If you clicked on this because of that dumb teaser headline, that’s why I’m leaving Facebook. It’s not totally because the privacy concerns. Yes, they are annoying, particularly when the company keeps nibbling away at both its promises and your ability to choose what to make public. When we signed up for social media, we all agreed to… Read more »
Omnisciencia
I have self-diagnosed myself with omnisciencia. It’s the debilitating state that develops when you try to keep up with everything that’s going on.
The Modern Minstrels
We don’t need minstrel shows or vaudeville now. We have YouTube. Are Sweet Brown and Antoine Dodson the newest version of the old minstrel show?
Who is this Paul McCartney guy?
I think there may be a cultural reason for the self-enforced stupidity we’re seeing in American youth, and moreover, for a stubborn failure to perceive that mouth-breathing ignorance as a failing.
Signs that your favorite website is a post mill
Post mills can undermine the Fourth Estate, allow marketing and PR departments to manipulate our media as their mouthpiece, and leave the watchdogs sleeping. An entire generation of people is growing up without an understanding that the people who bring them their news have hastily recycled it, without checking how it got to them.
Spirit Airlines alleges conspiracy because it can’t pretend airfares are $9
Travel sellers are sending customers disingenuous emails about the new DOT fare quote rules. Spirit Airlines’ fear-mongering email is typical of the false victimhood that hucksters hide behind these days.
Seven things Facebook and Google get wrong about you
Most of the major sites we use now purport to be able to “customize” what they show you based on what you’ve looked at before. But this worrying fascination is built on some logical lapses about who we are and what our behavior really exposes about ourselves.
Jason Cochran, porn star
At first, I didn’t know whether to be flattered or insulted that my adoring public was thinking of me that way. Then, I had a sinking feeling that maybe I did something at last year’s Christmas party that slipped my memory.
Facebook’s gift to society: Passive affection
There may be few things more annoying than reading the results of yet another study in the press. The only thing more dispiriting, I guess, would be one more self-serving article about Twitter. Enough already! Yet here’s one that dares to be exponentially more pretentious by being both at once. Don’t worry. I’ll boil it… Read more »