We meant to take a week off, but we just couldn't help ourselves. Our entire episode this week is a Yes Yes No about the recent (and massive) dustup on Reddit. Note: This episode has been updated to include a correction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When successful internet entrepreneur Robert Hoquim died, the people who knew him found out they actually didn't know him at all. For more about John Aleshe, go here: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONTROVERSY/PERSONALITIES/ALESHE/ For tickets to Cast Party, go to www.castparty.org Check out Death, Sex & Money at www.deathsexmoney.org Sponsors: The Outlook app for iOS and Android Mailchimp (www.mailchimp.com/replyall) Harry's Razors (www.harrys.com/reply) Learn more about your ad choices....
Thomas Oscar is an Australian teenager who tried to make the most boring Facebook group possible - a group where members pretend to be corporate drones in a non-existent office. This week's episode was reported by Karen Duffin (www.karenbduffin.com). Sponsors: Xero (www.xero.com/podcasts) Stamps.com (www.stamps.com, offer code 'reply') Squarespace (www.squarespace.com, offer code 'reply') Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
An email to the wrong address sends us hurtling into the world of professional cookie advisors. Leopold's website: http://www.weihsien-paintings.org Cast Party Tickets: http://castparty.org Sponsors: Mailchimp http://www.mailchimp.com Stamps.com http://www.stamps.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week, producer Stephanie Foo tells a story about dating online that is unlike any we've ever heard before. Sponsors: Xero (http://www.xero.com/podcasts) Mailchimp (http://www.mailchimp.com) Stamps.com (http://www.stamps.com, offer code "reply") Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Craigslist is the internet’s classifieds section, but it’s also one of its more shadowy corners, where the ads are anonymous and ephemeral. So we found ourselves wondering - what would we find if we replied to a couple? This week, we track down the people behind two intriguing ads. And in the second half of the show - Neal Horsley was an anti-abortion activist who created a website called "The Nuremberg Files," a website that listed the names and addresses of abortion providers around the countr...
In the United States, the idea of having a conversation with the President is pretty outlandish. But in Latin America, it's a regular occurrence. The most accessible president on Latin American social media is Ecuador's Rafael Correa. But what's it like to get the attention of a head of state when you may not exactly want it? This story was adapted from a Spanish Language version that originally appeared on the radio show Radio Ambulante. Listen to that here: http://radioambulante.org/en/audio-e...
This week, we conclude Shulem Deen’s story. In part I, we heard how the internet led him on a path where he was exiled from his community and separated from his family. In part II, Sruthi Pinnamaneni tells the story of how the Hasidic community has tried to block off a corner of the internet for itself, and how this new, informal Hasidic internet might offer Shulem a way back. Thanks for listening! Subscribe to our podcast at www.itunes.com/replyall! Sponsors: www.framebridge.com (offer code 're...
Shulem Deen was a 22-year old and ultra-religious, a Hasidic Jewish person, when he bought a computer and signed up for America Online in 1996. Until then he'd never had a real conversation with someone outside his community. Sruthi Pinnamaneni tells the story of how the internet ruined his life and how it might save it. Thanks for listening! Subscribe to our podcast at http://www.itunes.com/replyall! Sponsors: Mailchimp (http://www.mailchimp.com) Blue Apron (http://blueapron.com - coupon code '...
A special bonus Email Debt Forgiveness Day themed episide! First, PJ talks to Buzzfeed San Francisco Bureau chief Mat Honan about his decision to abandon personal email entirely, and his agonizing fear that it makes him seem like a douche. Then we listen to some of the voicemails people left us on our Email Debt Forgiveness Day hotline. Thanks for participating in the inaugural email debt forgiveness day! We can't wait until next year. Check out this great New Yorker article about Email Debt For...
In 1996, 19-year-old Jennifer Ringley started the Jennicam, a 24-hour online chronicle of her life. Seven years later, she disappeared entirely from the internet. But why? Also, PJ and Alex discuss how even in the past five months, the landscape of "lifecasting" has changed. And PJ puts Alex on Meerkat and he gets very uncomfortable. Don't forget! Tomorrow is Email Debt Forgiveness Day! Leave us a voicemail at (917) 475-6668 about your most anxiety inducing unanswered email. We will post a speci...
When Higinio Ochoa got out of prison for hacking in September of 2014, one of the terms of his parole was that he is not allowed to use any internet connected device. We went to his home in Austin to find out how he got caught and what it's like - in 2015 - to go from living online to not having any internet access. Next week we celebrate Email Debt Forgiveness Day! Leave us a voicemail at (917) 475-6668 about your most anxiety inducing unanswered email. All will be forgiven, we promise. To see ...
Yes Yes No returns, and the story of two people who created a company designed to ghostwrite people’s emotionally difficult emails. Don’t forget to participate in Email Debt Forgiveness Day! Leave us a voicemail at (917) 475-6668 about your most anxiety inducing unanswered email. All will be forgiven, we promise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Marnie the Dog is one of the most famous dogs on Instagram. Two years ago, she was near death at an animal shelter in Connecticut, now she has 1.2 million followers and hangs out with human celebrities.This week, we investigate the formula for internet dog fame, and look at how having a famous dog will completely upend your life. Thanks for listening. Subscribe to the show at www.itunes.com/replyall, or anywhere else you listen to podcasts. Help us with Email Debt Forgiveness Day by telling us a...
In 2012, a woman named Lindsey Stone posted a picture she took as a joke to her Facebook page. A month later, she was under attack from all corners of the internet, out of a job, hounded by the press. The internet had targeted her for a public shaming. Jon Ronson, journalist and author of the new book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed", walks us through Lindsey's story and introduces us to the sometimes sketchy world of online reputation management. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...
In 1997, John Silveira wrote a joke classified ad in a tiny publication called Backwoods Home Magazine asking if anyone wanted to travel back in time with him. A lot of people took him seriously. What do you do when everyone wants you to fix the worst mistakes they've ever made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
For Jonathan Goldstein, YouTube offers endless nostalgia, but he always finds himself returning to the same subject - a precocious child actor from the early 70’s named Mason Reese. And then a few months ago, new clips of Reese began popping up on YouTube. What's more, they appeared to be uploaded by Reese himself. Jonathan sets out to discover why - and why now, after 40 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Blair Myhand is a police officer in the sleepy, 42,000 person town of Apex, NC. One night, he received an unusually disturbing phone call where a person claimed to be holding a woman hostage after murdering several people. Myhand assembled his team, and went to the house, but what they ended up finding was much more bizarre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A social media mistake for the record books, and a quiet saint of Wikipedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A woman starts dating again at 60 after her marriage falls apart. We follow her into a world of millionaire import/export moguls and fifteen-year old internet scammers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What happens when a woman sends a stocky blond stranger to tell her ex she loves him. (Updated with a new interview!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The entire internet decides to look at one famous butt at the same time. One man has to ensure that the website hosting Kardashian butt pictures doesn't crash. The sheer terror and joy of solving that problem. (Plus, a new Yes/Yes/No.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
There was a lot that Errol Morris never knew about his brilliant, distant older brother Noel. Decades after Noel's death, Errol read an internet comment that said his brother had invented email. So he launched an investigation to find out if it was true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the early 80's, way before the world wide web existed, the French government shipped a $200 terminal to every home with a phone line, and created a service that for decades ran alongside the internet. It was called The Minitel. Producer Carla Green speaks to reporter Jean-Marc Manach, who, in the early 90's, made a living posing as a woman in sex chat rooms on Minitel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Yik Yak is a an app that allows users to communicate anonymously with anyone within a 10-mile radius. At Colgate University in upstate New York, the anonymity brought out a particularly vicious strain of racism that shook the school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sometimes, on his way to work, a feeling of pressure begins thumping in Paul Ford’s chest. His breaths shorten. They speed up. And sometimes, in those moments of extreme anxiety, Paul’s phone talks to him. It tells him everything that’s wrong with him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week we enter the mysterious, Byzantine underworld of domain sales, where people make money speculating on the website naming market. A few years ago, the owners of the popular journalism website longform.org blundered into this world when they innocently tried to procure longform.com. In this episode, we find out about their misadventures, and we hear from the Derek Jeter of URL purchases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Depending on who you ask, Keith Calder is either a 35-year old film producer, or one of the players in a vast international conspiracy designed to conceal the greatest love story never told. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In 1996 Jennifer Ringley started Jennicam.org, where she recorded and broadcast her entire life, 24/7. It made her famous. And then, one day, she disappeared from the internet entirely. What'd she figure out about the perils of living publicly before the rest of us did? Alex Goldman tracks her down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Writer Chiara Atik has a hobby -- spying on the financial transactions of friends and strangers. She thinks that Venmo, more than any other social media site, is the place you can find actual, accidental truth online. This week we investigate that claim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
