Source: Garrison Center
by Joel Schlosberg
“‘We Will Never Be Rid of Google’ (The New York Times, September 30) is quite a headline for the same Julia Angwin who wrote the book on MySpace. Angwin’s comprehensive unofficial account was published in 2009 as Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (not ‘We Will Never Be Rid of MySpace’). Its subtitle didn’t remain current for long …. Still, the snapshot of the then-hip site, not yet a punchline in a David Pogue Times column exemplifying when ‘a hot property becomes a lame has-been’ (alongside action star Steven Seagal, well after his career transition from Hard to Kill to direct-to-video, and the Macarena dance craze), remains an instructive case study.” (10/02/25)