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Paper Magazine editorial director Mickey Boardmen on the lag between social media coverage and new items actually appearing in stores: “We have ejaculated five times before we’re actually able to have sex with that piece of clothes. Not to be graphic.”

A few days ago John Aravosis posted an AmericaBlog column titled The 7 Gayest Aaron Schock Instagram Posts Of 2013 in which he needled Schock’s famous sense of fashion and devotion to bodybuilding. That AmericaBlog post was referenced in yesterday’s Facebook piece on Schock by CBS reporter Itay Hod. And JMG reader Michael reports that Schock today made his Instagram …

Facebook-owned Instagram will now support very short video clips just like the Twitter-owned Vine. Instagram’s Kevin Systrom said video clips on Instagram will be 3 to 15 seconds long and include new shaky hand video stabilization technology called Cinema. Instagram now has 130 million users. Systrom: “The frame shown to people is typically the first frame. We think that’s silly. …

John Aravosis wonders how well-known gay blogs would be portrayed in this style. (Via AmericaBlog)

Over the weekend Facebook-owned Instragram pulled the photos that its users had posted to Twitter. In a company blog post, Twitter said that Instagram has “disabled photo integration with Twitter,” though tweeting links to Instagram photos is still possible. Photos from Instagram no longer appear in Twitter user photo galleries. In an interview at a Paris tech show last week, …