Posts tagged as:

suicide

Your life — and death — online

by Mathew on November 20, 2008 · View Comments

There are so many people spending their lives in front of video cameras — not just on sites like YouTube but on thousands of discussion forums and chat rooms across the Internet — that the surprising thing isn’t how many people choose to die in front of their webcams, it’s how few. Liz Gannes at [...]

{ View Comments }

David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008

by Mathew on September 14, 2008 · View Comments

This doesn’t really have much to do with the Web or new media or anything like that, but I feel compelled to take some notice of the fact that David Foster Wallace is dead. His wife apparently came home Friday night to find that the author had hung himself in their home in Claremont, California. [...]

{ View Comments }