http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6047 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6047/comment-page-1#comment-12902 vanderleun Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:44:04 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6047#comment-12902 Which must be very relaxing. Which must be very relaxing.

]]> http://snarkmarket.com/2010/6047/comment-page-1#comment-12900 Zach Seward Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:00:13 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=6047#comment-12900 I don't know. Manjoo's piece was kind of necessarily superficial, the topic being so broad. But I'm skeptical of anyone who doesn't find it interesting that 23% of Twitter users are black (assuming that's true). So I give him points for grappling with that factoid and not coming up with anything truly racist -- as opposed to, say, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-study-results-2010-4" rel="nofollow">Business Insider's stab at it</a>. Manjoo's mistake is in implying that there might be a coherent explanation. His strength is in not coming up with any. I don’t know. Manjoo’s piece was kind of necessarily superficial, the topic being so broad. But I’m skeptical of anyone who doesn’t find it interesting that 23% of Twitter users are black (assuming that’s true). So I give him points for grappling with that factoid and not coming up with anything truly racist — as opposed to, say, Business Insider’s stab at it. Manjoo’s mistake is in implying that there might be a coherent explanation. His strength is in not coming up with any.

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