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Byline: BY ERIC STEUER SHOUT THE #FREEBASSEL EFFECT DON'T GIVE UP. ONLINE ACTIVISM IS STILL POWERFUL. Recently I learned, along with the rest of the world, the heartbreaking news that [...]

Byline: -ERIC STEUER DREAM MASHUPS BOOTLEG ACTION HEROES If you played with action figures as a kid, you probably wanted to tweak your toys. Now artists are turning their action-figure [...]

Byline: ERIC STEUER CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK CREATION THE BEAT GOES ON For musicians trying to make it, the Internet can be unforgiving. Just don't quit-you never know who's listening. A [...]

Byline: BY ERIC STEUER LUCA BARCELLONA THROW SKEE-LO a BUCK FOR GOD'S SAKE! Digital tipping rescued baristas. Now it can do the same for artists. I have a soft spot [...]

Byline: BRATISLAV MILENKOVIC PODCASTS AFTER A FALSE START in the early 2000s, podcasting has exploded. More than 2.6 billion episodes were downloaded in 2014. Here's your user's manual, from hosting [...]

Byline: BY ERIC STEUER VICTOR COBO RISKY BUSINESS THE RISE AND FALL OF REDBOOK, A SITE THAT JOHNS LOVED AND SEX WORKERS COULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT. Until last summer, pretty much [...]

Byline: BY ERIC STEUER DAMIEN MALONEY ROMAN EMPIRE A PODCASTER REIGNS SUPREME TWO MARK MILLAR COMICS REWRITTEN BY JANE GOLDMAN AS MOVIES p. 40 CARS SOLD BY DETROIT-BASED CHRYSLER, FORD, [...]

BULLDOZERS, BOMBS, AND NEON LAS VEGAS WITHOUT THE SIN 39,727,022 PEOPLE VISITED VEGAS IN 2012, 4,944,014 OF THEM TO ATTEND ONE OF SIN CITY'S 21,615 CONVENTIONS ORGANIZERS ESTIMATE THAT IN [...]

BATTLE OF THE TOY BANDS ERIC STEUER DAFT PUNK AGAINST THE WORLD Action figures aren't meant to be locked up in their packaging. (There's a reason they're called action figures, [...]

MOZART WRIGHT BROTHERS EDISON TESLA MARIO BROS. SKRILLEX RHYME FIGHTERS ERIC STEUER NATHAN FOX FAMOUS FIGURES GO MIC-TO-MIC Bruce Lee Versus Clint Eastwood, Vader versus Hitlerwho would win in a [...]

Byline: ERIC STEUER Flickr With all the hubbub around Marissa Mayer squashing telecommuters and making controversial remarks about feminism, an important story about the Yahoo CEO has been overlooked: She's [...]

Byline: Eric Steuer Best Friends No matter what social network you're on, you can buy your way to popularity. Whoever said you can't buy friends was dead wrong. A search [...]

Byline: Eric Steuer CURL UP WITH A DNA SEQUENCE A book about far-out science gets translated into a far-out language: genetic code. For their new book, Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology [...]

Byline: Eric Steuer SCREEN TIME Kids who had never seen a computer before are learningquickly. Imagine children learning to read without a school, teachers, or books. Impossible? Nicholas Negroponte aims [...]

Byline: Eric Steuer PHOTOGRAPH BY MATHEW SCOTT EYEWITNESS TWEETS First on the scene: Everyday people now break extraordinary news. Newspapers may be dying, but news reporting is alive and thriving [...]

Byline: TEXT Eric Steuer ILLUSTRATION Guy Shield CHURCH OF BOB Moog Lives! Artists and fans channel the man behind the synthesizer. Think about midcentury sci-fi and horror flicks. Do you [...]

LOST: The definitive guide to pop culture's buried treasure. The pilot episode of Star Trek . Prince's Black Album . The original edit of Blade Runner . Many formerly hard-to-find [...]

Byline: ERIC STEUER Graffiti for Sysadmins Trust falls and circle games are wack. Luckily, a crop of companies now offer corporate team-building classes with counterculture cred. Will tagging a freeway [...]

Byline: ERIC STEUER PHOTOGRAPH BY Donald Milne The Changing Face of News I want my Al Jazeera English! How Mohamed Nanabhay has helped the expanding network win over the US [...]

Byline: TEXT Eric Steuer ILLUSTRATION Patrick Leger ROCK STAR Press Rewind Unearth your deckscassettes are back for an encore. It looked like the end of the reel for cassettes. The [...]

Byline: ERIC STEUER The Optimized MC It takes more than tight beats and dope rhymes to make it in today's hip hop game. You also need a rock-solid grasp of [...]

The article offers the author's insights on the effect of the online campaign #freebassel which aim to lift awareness about the condition of Syrian software developer Bassel Khartabil who was imprisoned in Syria in 2012. Topics discussed include his advocacy to promote openness and freedom on technology and web education following the emerge of Arab Spring, his imprisonment of March 2012 due to his threat to the Syrian government, and his death in 2015 under the presidency of Bashar al-Assad.

An interview with freelance writer K. M. McFarland is presented. Asked about the ideal guest to bring to podcast episode, he says he must have a strong self-awareness of who he is, the decisions he has made and the impact of those decisions in others. He admits editing uninteresting answers in an episode. He mentions Phil Elverum of musical groups Microphones and Mount Eerie as his dream-come-true guest.

In this article, the author discusses the use of internet by musicians to promote their music. He mentions the musician John Cane who mentioned being fan of a rap song made by him. He adds his focus on creating music rather than worrying about the response of audience. He also adds the success with the internet.

The article reviews the Evernote note-taking software.

The article discusses winners in matchups ofcultural and historical icons, based on YouTube series "Epic Rap Battles of History" Topics discussed include the value of music producer and singer-songwriter Skrillex vs. classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, why aviation pioneers the Wright Brothers are more superior than video game characters Mario Brothers, and comparison of superiority between inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison.