Weekend Reads

You think your business has been affected by the Internet? Consider Patrick Clark’s look at the Twilight of One-Hour Photo.

+ “The behavior of this group is dramatic: visiting different hospitals with various aliases, injecting feces into the veins to induce sepsis, eating rotting food to perforate the bowels.” Münchausen syndrome has been around for a long time. But the Internet makes it a whole lot easier. The Guardian’s Jules Montague on the sickness bloggers who fake it online.

+ “To meet the enterprising leader of Westarctica, you’ll have to travel to West Hollywood, Calif., where he works as a recruiter for a media company.” Bloomberg’s Jennifer Parker with a guide to the weird, wild world of micro-nations where anybody can be king. (This is like Game of Thrones without the frontal nudity.)