HuffPost readers are nothing if not the types who will willingly outsmart themselves. So you'll like this contest from Smith Magazine, creators of the Six-Word Memoir project, and Significant Objects, a weird, wonderful new project from Joshua Glenn and NYT Mag's Consumed columnist Rob Walker.

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HuffPost people should like this new contest from six-word memoir creators Smith Magazine and Frontline/Digital Nation. In six words, tell us how the web and digital technology are changing how you think, work, live, or love. Whether you've done things unimaginable just a few years ago ("I have...

SMITH Mag's earthy friends over at TreeHugger have been devoting lots of virtual space lately to exploring our oceans and waterways in their month-long feature, Blue August. That got me thinking about a Six-Word Challenge about one of summer's treats and earth's increasingly rare resources: water. Whether...

It's been said by many, including the editors of SMITH magazine, that a six-word memoir can be a lot like an epitaph, the ultimate summation of one's life. We just launched a new six-word challenge: What's your six-word obituary for Michael Jackson? Leave your six words for MJ either...

Inauguration day: What's it all about in six words? Hope or impeachment? Ending war of helping the poor? In other words: what half-dozen choice words do you want to hear from Obama on January 20?

SMITH Magazine and The National Constitution Center have put out a challenge...

For nine months now, I've been publishing SMITH, a magazine about personal stories, personal obsessions and other "chicken's eye" views of the world. In that time, nothing has caused as much of a stir as our interview with Korey Rowe, a 23-year-old soldier from upstate Oneonta, New York,...

Real life and a disastrous war continue to imitate art in this near-future webcomic...

The year is 2011. Gas prices are sky high in America, President John McCain's approval ratings are falling and the Middle East is getting bloodier by the day. As writer Anthony Lappé explains in the beginning...

Would you be surprised if our misadventure in Iraq is still a quagmire in five years? Me neither. So what will it look like? How will the media cover it? Thatís half the fun, and lots of the horror, of Shooting War, SMITH Magazine's weekly webcomic set in Iraq,...

I'm the editor of SMITH: Everyone Has a Story, an online magazine about storytelling in its many shapes and forms. Our hottest read right now is the webcomic Shooting War, a near-future, media-obsessed story about a Brooklyn blogger who heads to still-war-torn Iraq after witnessing a terrorist attack on...