March 2011
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WatchReally nice piece on people living in an uncompleted 45-story tower in Caracas:
“I never let my child out of my sight,” said Yeaida Sosa, 29, who lives with her 1-year-old daughter, Dahasi, on the seventh floor overlooking a bustling artery, Avenida Andrés Bello. Ms. Sosa said residents were horrified after a young girl recently fell to her death from a high floor.
Some families have walled...
February 2011
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“We have Plan A, Plan B and Plan C. Plan A is to live and die in Libya. Plan B is...”
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Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, the son of Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Qaddafi, saying that his family will never leave Libya. (via officialssay)
You know, I absolutely loved the Wang Chung soundtrack to To Live and Die in Libya
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Well, Maybe if it's Tuna on Rye
scribnerbooks:
“Customers often ask if there is a discount on book prices. I ask you, do you get a discount on a sandwich?”
—Pejman Soltani, in a fascinating article from Reuters on booksellers in Iran
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What Happens if the Government Shuts Down?
usagov:
When Congress and the President can’t reach an agreement on the budget and federal agencies run out of funding, the government is required to shut down all non-essential services. When that happens, by law, federal employees aren’t allowed to work, except in emergency situations. This forces government activities to stop and affects a variety of services the general public receives from...
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“Thus he was able to design The Sun to be, if not a perfect instrument, then...”
– Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin — published in 1983
You don’t say.
(via gumplr)
Yet another reason this is the most true book about NYC ever written.
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Scenes from a Borders Liquidation Sale (hint:...
scribnerbooks:
One bookseller comments:
This, more than ebooks, more than customer loyalties and more than downward trends in reading defines the current sales culture. We are trained to flip out over a series of trigger words to the point where without those words, without that perception of a deal (but not an actual deal) people don’t spend. I can’t believe that all the people there...
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That's Easy: Mariah Carey's Office is Right...
derekg:
I wish I knew where all this glitter was coming from. I am constantly covered in it.
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Man sues all-you-can-eat sushi joint for... →
today:
“David Martin was eating just the fish, and leaving the rice behind — which meant what he really wanted was all-you-can-eat sashimi. Martin told the owner, Jay Oh, that he had diabetes and couldn’t eat the rice. Oh told him that the sushi deal had to include the rice…”
Tis no man, ‘tis a remorseless eating machine. Arrr.
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Is PR Taking Over the News →
futurejournalismproject:
Journalists are a busy lot, out reporting each day as fire breathing editors demand they fill news holes post haste.
No wonder the allure of a press release. Flip a word hear and there, massage some copy and here you go, an article ready for publication.
Not so fast.
England’s Media Standards Trust has released a “churn engine” that lets readers compare articles to...
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contrive-deactivated20110610 asked: I'm really interested on the revised "tagging" feature of tumblr, but i don't really know what're the most popular tags. I like to ask for a list of tags i can follow. or is there a page allotted for it?
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celinenyc asked: Just read your reply on the new directory format, so I checked out the new explore page. Wondering if these rotate, or if they are the permanent curated pages? I take a lot of photos of my city, and unless they're black and white, I don't know how I would tag them. . . Seems like photographs are left out?
globeandmail asked: Hey there, nice to see we're being added into the news feed (re: http://globeandmail.tumblr.com/post/3448659176/the-globes-mark-mackinnon-reports-on-his)
Is there tagging we could add to make it easier for your people to find stuff?
Is there tagging we could add to make it easier for your people to find stuff?
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Workman Says Things: For the first time in 3... →
Interesting. I’d like to address this one in particular:
Whoever made the new “Explore” option has no concept of user interaction. Listing content genres by “Feedback” is NOT how a user thinks. Has anyone EVER said, I want to find something but I want to search for that genre in terms of popularity? I know it can be fixed. But simple things like that make me feel like Tumblr is a group of...
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Also, Brianvan: This is Perhaps the Greatest... →
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“To make things mentally easy for even the dullest, the official organ of...”
– In which we learn dictatorships used to be a lot more theatrical. (from a Jan., 1936 Time magazine article on a break in the Soviet Union’s War on Christmas)
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The Way News Works Now
infinitejess:
1. “Pro-am” content, um, supplier Examiner.com runs a story titled “Britney Spears named number one Gay icon in Southern California.”
2. The Toronto Sun picks it up and runs with it without crediting the source.
3. The Washington Post picks it up and runs with it, crediting the Toronto Sun.
4. A little indie paper called the South Florida Gay News smells a fish, investigates,...
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The Greatest Trick David Brooks Ever Pulled Was to...
From today’s column:
States with public sector unions tend to run into fiscal crises. They tend to have workplaces where personnel decisions are made on the basis of seniority, not merit. There is little relationship between excellence and reward, which leads to resentment among taxpayers who don’t have that luxury.
Yet I think Governor Walker made a strategic error in setting up this...
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"To get a sense of the absurdity of protecting all... →
To be fair, those public broadcasters can’t play Sousa for shit.
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“We also need to solve the Pakistan problem. And Korea doesn’t seem to be going...”
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A memo from then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to one of his subordinates. (via officialssay)
Huh. So really, all this was because Rumsfeld couldn’t find good help?
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“What we need is an infrastructure for a content marketplace online that rewards...”
– Jeff Jarvis (via soupsoup)
Hmm. I don’t think this is as missing a piece as Jarvis thinks; lots of sites do this. At Newsweek we paid MSN/MSNBC for every person they sent back to Newsweek.com. To be fair, the way I understood the deal, we didn’t give MSN/MSNBC a percentage of the...
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Watchmotherjones:
PIZZA AND PROTEST
An encouraging Wisconsin update from MJ’s Andy Kroll:
Pizza from around the world. To show their support for the labor protesters here in Madison, people from California to Egypt have been calling into local pizza joints and ordering pizzas to be delivered to the Wisconsin state capital. For Ian’s Pizza, located just a stone’s throw from the capital...
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