August 2011
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“It’s amazing, though it shouldn’t be, to see the former vice-president of the...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates (via azspot)
patrickbeser asked: You're right! There is a short film called "C'était un Rendezvous" by Claude Lelouch (1976). See: www_youtube_com/watch?v=gWVde1pWl24 :)
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Hate the Writer, Not the Game
topherchris:
I’d like to meet Alyssa Bereznak for two dates and then post on Gizmodo about exactly why I wouldn’t ask her back for a third, but I probably don’t need to have the actual dates to make it a compelling post.
Backstory
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Things I've learned so far from Tumblr Spanish
spiegelman:
“enlace” means “link”
“etiquetas” are “tags”
“añadir” means “to add,” but on the Internet it can mean “to follow,” basically “add people to my dashboard”
“texto” means “text” in the broader sense of “text,” as in “this book is a wonderful text,” but now included is the idea of a “text post”
“chat” means “chat”
Tumblr: Not afraid to be educational.
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Tumbleros →
Thanks, Annie…..
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“On another platform entirely, one of the reasons I love following WW Norton on...”
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—Matt Mullin
Really nice piece here on social media and book publishing. Norton’s Tumblr is indeed great, as Scribner, and the I Heart Classics Tumblr that was the brainchild of the excellent Emily Meithner. The point here is applicable to any business—everyone is ultimately in the...
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“One of the things I learned at Pixar is that the technology industries and the...”
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Without Jobs as CEO, Who Speaks for the Arts at Apple? | Epicenter | Wired.com
Tim Carmody finds a great quote from Jobs
(via felixsalmon)
This is actually a pretty great feature of Tumblr’s workplace culture, too.
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“His estranged wife, Barbra Streisand, calls him “the American Jean-Paul...”
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“Elliott Gould: The Urban Don Quixote” (Time, 1970)
This is but one example of why the Time magazine archive is an underutilized treasure.
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Dorkulate With Steve: Turn Feedback Into... →
stevewoolf:
Steve Jobs has often cited this quote from Henry Ford: “If I’d have asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!’ “
This is Jobs’s defense of Apple’s reluctance to listen to even its most passionate customers, and the line is a good one to remember the next…
I want a faster horse.
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Learn How to Recognize and Report Disaster Relief... →
Today in PSAs.
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talesfromzonea:
A crucial part of any Hurricane...
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OK, this is a little obvious.
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#Irene →
joshuanguyen:
It’ll be an interesting 24 hours coming up.
For those of you whose Tumblr dashboard isn’t already filled with hurricane news, our curated stream of all things Irene is here.
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“Two weeks after Lehman’s bankruptcy in September 2008, Morgan Stanley countered...”
– Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz in Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Loans from Fed - Bloomberg (via quotingthecrisis)
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Inside Breaking News: Introducing @BreakingIrene →
breakingblog:
We’ve been curating real-time news about Hurricane Irene since the storm formed in the Atlantic on Aug. 20. All of these updates have been published to BreakingNews.com, our mobile apps and a good portion of them have also been shared to our social channels - @BreakingNews, …
PSA. Let’s be careful out there.
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“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea”
– Isak Dinesen (via crookedindifference)
Oh, cool. So this puts the coming drowning of NYC in a much better light.
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Bull semen forces closure of interstate ramp →
msnbc:
Today’s Headline of the Day Award- maybe of the Year Award- goes to Nashville’s WKRN.com for this story about $80,000 worth of bull sperm falling out of a Greyhound bus which, according to the story, “did not know it lost its load.”
Sigh. Sometimes I’m reminded of why journalism really is the job of Kings.
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NPR: "How animals foretold the earthquake" →
latimes:
npr:
We know how humans first sensed Tuesday’s earthquake. We felt the shake, then the rattle, and then the urge to flee.
But what about the region’s animals?
Did they sense the rare 5.8-magnitude temblor before the shaking started?
We checked in with the folks at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, one of the most popular attractions in the nation’s capital, to see what they could...
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Sex and the Single Adweek Reporter
braiker:
This email exchange between Newsweek senior writer Alison Samuels and Shaq is making the rounds. Sure, he hits on her in his uniquely charming way, claiming “I want u or Rihanna.” But is it really all that shocking? Strikes me as pretty standard journalist-source banter. I mean, here’s an email exchange I recently had with Jane Pratt, who I interviewed a couple of times recently:
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What is journalism worth? →
What is journalism worth? That’s the question journalism managers and entrepreneurs have been trying to figure out ever since it became clear, years ago, that the Internet was disrupting local publishing monopolies.
And so we’ve endured years of conference panels, email exchanges, and blog posts about paywalls and paid content strategies, as publishers try to figure out exactly how much people...
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“Since 1992 the Innocence Project, an American legal charity, has used DNA...”
– People have a strange and worrying tendency to admit to things they have not, in fact, done. Researchers aim to find out why. (via theeconomist)
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“The fiscal situation at the USPS is bad—really bad. According to its most recent...”
– U.S. Postal Service: Will it survive? - By Annie Lowrey - Slate
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