September 2010
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“I think every person should have the opportunity once to be Sorkinized. What...”
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Scott Rudin, a producer of “The Social Network,” in Rolling Stone (via thedeadline)
Hmm. Personally, I’d decline Sorkinization, mainly because I think characterization is the weakest part of his game. The guy knows how to write a compelling story, but Aaron Sorkin characters never sound...
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40% of Aol's Revenue Still Comes From Dial-Up... →
Mr. Armstrong estimates that about 10 million to 12 million visitors to AOL sites are tied to its dial-up subscription business.
Wow. This is amazing.
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Passive House / Energy Efficiency →
youngmanhattanite:
abcnorio:
Passive House is the standard to which we are building the new ABC No Rio facility. The firm briefly profiled in the article, Zero Energy Design, is the outfit we hired as consultants in this area, and the engineer quoted, Jordan Goldman, is designing our HVAC system and consulting in passive house modeling. Although people seem most interested and responsive to...
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A Trillion Here and a Trillion There and Pretty...
The estimable P.Stack reminds us of this really nice visualization of the Obama 2011 budget:
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I Get My Kicks Above the Waistline, Sunshine
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How Are You Going to Keep them Down on the CMS...
Interesting discussion here from one former HuffPo writer on why she will no longer contribute. This graf, I thinks, points to a problem the site may have going forward:
The Huffington Post just took on Howard Fineman, a fine political pundit and maybe one of the last to leave the sinking ship Newsweek. I predict he will stay about a year. Maybe two. He doesn’t want Newsweek to be the last...
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In Which We Welcome The Week
theweekmagazine.tumblr.com is up, running, and looking good. Welcome!
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Today in Important Questions for the Tumblr...
It’s been years, decades really, since I read Charlotte’s Web, so maybe there’s a simple explanation I missed when I was 8. But this has been haunting me ever since, and I’m hoping for some clarity:
Why did everyone think the pig was so great, and ignored that fact that some spider was writing English words in her web? Anyone?
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“…most important, don’t move back home! Your parents will make you go to law...”
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Susan Orlean updates her advice for aspiring writers (via austinkleon)
oh my god.
(via thingsthatscarelaurenleto)
Huh. My parents threatened me with making me go to cockfights and opium dens.
I am such a moron for not moving back home.
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In Which We Learn NPR Fresh Air is Refreshingly...
nprfreshair:
We’re trying to figure out what exactly is on the show today. Jeff Sharlet, talking about Christian fundamentalism in the military and politics, is a definite for the first half of the show…but the second segment is a toss-up at this point. I’ll let you know when we know, which should be soonish.
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Re: Tumblr Trouble
david:
azspot:
…for most of our shared existence together, Tumblr has been a model of stability with outages and glitches (other than rich text editor follies) rare occurrences. Meanwhile, that other popular “microblogging” (/yes, I realize they are not equivalent products) service, Twitter, has endured a most checkered history of availability and bug-less-ness. Now, however, the behavior and...
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NPR: The Birth Of A Monarch Butterfly - And NPR's... →
npr:
It seems appropriate to kick of NPR’s little experiment on Tumblr with this photo from a commentary we posted yesterday on NPR.org. Artist Julie Zickenfoose shares her story about the beauty of watching monarch butterflies emerging from their chrysalis at her wildlife sanctuary in Ohio….
Oh, NPR on Tumblr, you had me at ‘N’. Welcome!
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Marco.org: Job transition →
marco:
After four years of my serving as Tumblr’s lead developer, Tumblr’s technical management needs have evolved to require types of experience that I don’t have, and my independent career has offered a lot of opportunities that I haven’t had the time to take full advantage of.
While Tumblr’s…
Marco is a legend among the people I talk to every day, and though I was lucky enough to...
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“NewsTilt was a news destination website, but we very quickly ran out of news. We...”
– From a really interesting, honest assessment from a failed “entrepreneurial journalism” startup (H/T @Perfectmarket)
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“In case anyone wants to watch, they’re pulling the Newsweek sign down from the...”
– Sarah Frank. And then we came to the end. (via sarah-ball)
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“It’s been interesting to observe the conflation of American and Christian...”
– Jesus didn’t preach tolerance (via azspot)
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William Burroughs, Picture Person
I’m loving this Burroughs interview, in part because he seems like he might have written a really great Tumblr. Excerpt, from the Paris Review’s excellent, and complete, archive of their interviews:
INTERVIEWER
Why is the wordless state so desirable?
BURROUGHS
I think it’s the evolutionary trend. I think that words are an around-the-world, oxcart way of doing things,...
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“Tumblr is a social space, sure, but it’s not really a social network in...”
– Me, responding to Paul Carr’s question about whether he should join Tumblr.
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“Brian clearly misspoke … Nothing in Brian’s record or anything else he’s said or...”
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Kate Duffy, spokeswoman for Brian Dubie, a Republican candidate for governor of Vermont. When asked in an radio interview about how he would achieve the budget savings in order to support his intended tax cuts, Dubie had previously answered,”We are going to have to look at our programs and target...
tasnims asked: Quick question - how do all of the news websites get fancy themes for their tumblrs? Do we have to purchase/design our own? (I was trying to make one for http://dailyprincetonian.tumblr.com/) Thanks!