January 2009
43 posts
“The print publishing business is an oxymoron. It is no longer a business. It is...”
– Mort Zuckerman
All You Can Eat Mondays at Hill Country!?!?!? →
There is a god
adamiss:
And All You Can Drink on Tuesday. Wow.
next Tumblr meetup, February 9th or 10th?
Thanks the Heather for pointing this out
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News You Can Endow - NYTimes.com →
While I think the “foundation model” for newspapers looks good right now, it’s not the best one. The freedom to have op-ed columnists and editorials is an important and very necessary component of news organizatinos as entities, and businesses — especially as opinion becomes an increasingly compelling component of all media.
Moreover, who’s to say that...
“After five o’clock this place is full of yuppies,” he said of Rudy’s. “I don’t...”
– I guess I’m part of the problem.
In Midtown, the Return of a Barfly’s Paradise - NYTimes.com
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WatchObama gets his burgers medium-well? Weak sauce, Barack.
arigreenberg:
Obama’s first ride on Air Force One (via joshmohrer)
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Alex is a "Flagpole Sitta" →
Nope, I can’t sing even a little bit.
By mknell
Loic Le Meur Blog: The New Twhirl (preview... →
The new Twhirl has some helpful features I was previously using elsewhere: Twitter seach integration and bit.ly URL shortening among them. Maybe now that you can do video replies within Twhirl I will try that out.
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About a million miles an hour when I crash into...
“Thank you, thank you, for identifying the actress who plays Natalie on...”
– If We Could Only Tell Who Plays Whom - WSJ.com
This is what passes for printable letters to the editor at The Wall Street Journal? Are you kidding?
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Engaging.
andrearosen:
*There will be no vegetarian or fish option at my wedding.
A woman after my own heart.
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“To build a sustainable long-term business, we think the NYT needs to...”
– Save The New York Times (NYT) — Silicon Alley Insider
Henry Blodget has done some great work here, and I hope NYTCo Management reads these recommendations and thinks about them. I am loathe to admit that some, if not all, of these moves are necessary/critical, but the numbers we’ve all...
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“At times, Mr. Obama seemed to chastise the nation, quoting Scripture to caution...”
– A Call for Change - Rejecting Bush Era, Reclaiming Values - News Analysis - NYTimes.com
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First executive order by President Obama
mknell:
Task the National Institute of Standards and Technology with figuring out the technical requirements for being a “Tumblr girl.”
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WatchSkee-Lo - I Wish - Free MP3 Stream on IMEEM Music
Pops into my head 50% of the time someone says “I wish …”
WatchStar Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) - CollegeHumor
Starring Han S., The Terminator, a Cylon and The Robot from Lost in Space.
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“Over time, Pilhofer adds, this is the role the Times can play: exciting online...”
– The Renegades at the New York ‘Times’ - New York Magazine
I love this article, because it clearly points to one of my major professional interests: finding a new and viable business model for newspapers — which henceforth I will try to remember to refer to a news media...
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New York Tech Scene →
randomsarah:
I am very happy to announce that we have launched New York Tech Scene, which is a community blog revolving around the tech community in NYC.
“New York Tech Scene is a community blog project started so that we could find out more about the people in this community, how they came into the community, and what there thoughts are about the goings on in this community.
It isn’t just...
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Watch“Thank you for telling me something I already know. You should work for the Huffington Post.”
“The great misfortune of newspapers in this era is that they were such a good...”
– Digital guru Clay Shirky’s media forecast and predictions for 2009 | Media | The Guardian
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Apple Drops Anticopying Measures in iTunes -... →
Apple said customers would be able to pay a one-time fee to strip copying restrictions from music they have already bought on iTunes, at 30 cents a song or 30 percent of the album price.
Seriously? F-bomb on you, Apple. That should be free, since I already spent my money with you.
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Atheists Send a Message, on 800 Buses -... →
“There’s probably no God,” the advertisements say. “Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
“We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology...”
– RNC Chairman Mike Duncan
So this is 2009’s “It’s a series of tubes!”
Thanks to Sam for bringing this to my attention.
(via adamiss)
This sounds positively perverted! Sarah Palin will not vouchsafe such vulgarity.
“I still blog, but I do think blogging will become obsolete as there are more...”
– Biz Stone - The Boston Globe
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“I’d like to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. It would be so damn...”
– Mitch Hedberg
Who Writes Wikipedia? →
Pretty limited crowdsourcing …
adamiss:
The most active 2%, which is 1400 people, have done 73.4% of all the edits on the site.
radarchive:livejamie:
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“Nobody questions things in this country anymore. Everybody’s too fat and...”
– The late great George Carlin
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“All is quiet on New Year’s Day,
A world in white gets underway,
And I...”
– U2 New Year’s Day lyrics
Listen to this every January 1.
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