AOL Reportedly Shutting Down TUAW Next Week in Larger Restructuring Move [Updated]

[Oletros]

Are you kidding me? The ones that threadjack almost every thread into "Obama is a terrorist" and "white people rule"?

The OP was talking about the article writers, not the forum members. Appleinsider forums are one of the best alternate reality experiments I have seen, people there can't be real

 

[Poisonivy326]

The OP was talking about the article writers, not the forum members. Appleinsider forums are one of the best alternate reality experiments I have seen, people there can't be real

Actually I think they are for real, which is what makes it scary. I think it's like a perfect example of how online communities often become self-selecting. If your whole life doesn't revolve around how Apple is a luxury brand for white supremacists then you won't fit into their forums, so what you get is a bunch of white supremacists who've merged their love of Apple and their love of being white supremacists into one train of thought.

 

[roadbloc]

Huh. Other than MacRumors what's left for dedicated Apple news?

Think Secret is gone.
MacBytes is gone.
Macenstein rarely posts and stopped being worth reading a long time ago.
TUAW is shutting down.

There's always Scoopertino

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

There's always Scoopertino

Ha - just remembered that Crazy Apple Rumors exists.