BigShinyThing

“They’re all a bunch of whores,” says the author of ‘All Tommorrow’s Parties’.

edie_vogue.jpgSienna Miller, Hayden Christensen and Guy Pearce are currently filming Factory Girl, in which Miller plays Andy Warhol’s muse Edie Sedgwick. Huge Edie fans that we are, BST has always been dumbfounded at the choice of Miller in favour of Edie’s modern day doppelgänger: Kate Moss. Who cares if she can act, Moss is the epitome of modern day rock chic. We’re siding with Lou.

Story from New York Daily News via Gawker. For proper Edie-worship, read Edie: American Girl.

Need to Know

(Just Say ‘No’ To) Form 696

Running a club night in London will require reporting of all acts and ‘target audience’ to the Met. WHAT?

What Google Is…

Or at least, what it might be up to…

Welcome To The Precariat

The continuation of exclusion, by other means…

Who Watches the (Internet) Watchmen?

Self-appointed internet censors mess with Wikipedia.

New Words

New times call for new words and phrases. The list starts here.

The Only Game in Town

Fingers crossed…

XDR-TB

This matters. Get involved.

Chrome, The Cloud, McCloud

Google explains its new browser, comic-book style

Our Big Shiny Lifestream Thing

Hello, world.

Cute Overlord

Cute Overload’s calendar sold out in a day. We ask, what’s their secret?

The New News

Pew’s latest research on news consumption in the US.

Listless

It’s that time of year again…

Product Displacement

UK culture minister says product placement “contaminates” TV programmes.

BBC Twitters Parliament

A bit more political transparency in the UK

Lessons from Tyra

From supermodel to media brand.

Genius as a Product

And how to make a business from it

IM bttr

Surprise! Using IM improves kids’ linguistic skills.

Twitter “Not Pointless” Shock

Microblogging officially tips over into the mainstream

Web 3.0 Starts Today

No, really.