Three pages into his new book, Bill Wasik presents the first of several charts illustrating the “telltale spike” of viral culture on the Internet — that is, a dramatic burst of attention around one ...

In each chapter of his book, And Then There’s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture, author Bill Wasik conducts a different experiment related to social networking and viral marketing. His ...

Bill Wasik begins his book, And Then There’s This, with a “plea to future historians.” Well, when the early history of online news is written, a crucial document will be the memo distributed at a ...

American society has a confused, contradictory relationship with animals. Many dog owners have no compunction about eating feedlot-raised pigs, animals whose intelligence, sociality, and sentience ...

For as long as people are known to have mingled with animals, they have contracted rabies. A potentially fatal disease easily transmitted from animals to humans, it has been an object of fear for much ...

The inventor of “flash mobs” has turned against the tech­nologies that made his stunts possible, said Jeff Howe in Wired. Bill Wasik, a Harper’s magazine editor who in 2003 launched a global fad by ...

Earlier this spring a homely British woman named Susan Boyle wowed the judges on a British talent show, the audience with her singing, and those of us who received the internet video and immediately ...

Jake Silverstein, editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine, has made his first major hire. The editor nabbed Bill Wasik as deputy editor. Wasik comes to the Times from Wired where he served as a ...

Nothing brings two people together quite like rabies. Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy — he’s a journalist, she’s a vet — teamed up to write “Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus ...