January 2012
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Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: Tumblr Tuesday →
motherjones:
We don’t endorse candidates. We do, however, wholeheartedly endorse these Tumblrs:
jspong: Texas Monthly senior editor John Spong, purveyor of old photos of famous people from Texas.
hollybailey: Writes about the 2012 race for Yahoo! News! Follow for instragrams of Mitt Romney looking at…
Seconded
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MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
I would have also looked for “Days Where Ice Cube Didn’t...
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Nathan Englander is now on Tumblr!
aaknopf:
Worth a follow.
res ipsa loquitur!
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WatchLivestreaming: The State of the Union
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“At Sundance, Weinstein Co.’s Bob Weinstein got a first-hand taste of the...”
– Attention, Wall Street Journal archivists: Please file this anecdote under “Things that probably didn’t happen.”
(—The Web’s Growing Muscle - WSJ.com)
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“Just as having a lot of pens doesn’t make you a great writer, having a lot of...”
– Ezra Klein challenges Newt Gingrich’s identity of an idea man. (via washingtonpoststyle)
“A $250 billion per year loss would be almost $800 for every man, woman, and...”
– The Freakonomics guys call bullshit on the MPAA’s piracy numbers. (via jimray)
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“Journalists, I find, tend to come quite late to sites like Tumblr and Pinterest....”
– How sharing disrupts media | Felix Salmon
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“Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option....”
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Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com
I know what this article is trying to do, but there’s something wrong here if the choice is to either have no manufacturing jobs, or to live under employment conditions that require you to be constantly available to be awakened in...
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“Many in the industry say the legislation began to stir suspicion as early as...”
– Nice piece from Jenna here:
Public Outcry Over Antipiracy Bills Began as Grass-Roots Grumbling - NYTimes.com
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Check it out
scribnerbooks:
Your humble ScribnerBooks tumblr-er has a Tumblr:
http://annadevries.tumblr.com/
More reading, writing, publishing, editing, and miscellany. (Star Wars dogs, for example.)
Same great taste, less commercial filling.
So, so followed.
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Should The Times Be A Truth Vigilante? →
soupsoup:
I hope this is a joke. The New York Times Public Editor wonders aloud if their journalists should be reporting the truth.
Seriously?
Maybe he thinks the NYT should be more like a truth noodge?
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“The whole thing with LiveJournal, WordPress, and Blogspot was oversharing in a...”
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Some Tumblr-on-Tumblr analysis from Los Campesinos! frontman Gareth. (via pitchfork)
“Tumblr: It’s Fucking Spooky” is a genius ad campaign.
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“When I was managing the Tumblr of Newsweek magazine, I had two goals,” ...”
– In which something is lost, but much is gained, through Google Translate.
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Rep. Lamar Smith Decides Lying About, Insulting... →
wilwheaton:
It appears that SOPA sponsor Rep. Lamar Smith has decided that his best strategy continues to be to ignore any and all criticism of SOPA and pretend that none of it “is legitimate.” That’s kinda funny since we’ve shown, in great detail, where many of the problems in the bill are (see here,here and here for example — all of which cite specific language from the bill). And yet,...
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Please Welcome 'NPR Radio Pictures' To Tumblr
npr:
NPR’s Multimedia team has just cranked up a Tumblr of their own. It’s called Radio Pictures and feel certain it will be a Tumblr worth following! —Wright
Excellent news!
A question: Is “Radio with Pictures” the same thing as “Television”?
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Salman fucking Rushdie is on Tumblr. →
Indeed.
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“Nova York, uma rival para o Vale do Silício”
– Nova York, uma rival para o Vale do Silício - Revista Exame - EXAME.com
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Yelping with Cormac: Red Lobster →
yelpingwithcormac:
Wichita, KS
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
The manager sat tied to the chair in the corral, firelit on all sides by the torches of the townfolk. Dean stood next to him with a Colt army revolver pointed to the hardpacked earth. Who else will speak, he said.
A chorus…
I’m enjoying Yelping With Cormac’s Blood Meridian...
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“It’s not about putting up pretty content, but about maximizing the value of the...”
– Scott Thompson, PayPal Executive, to Become Chief of Yahoo - NYTimes.com
I hope Charlene Li was misquoted on this, because if she wasn’t she clearly doesn’t know what she’s talking about. An approach that treats your company’s editorial product as a simple bit of commodity...
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“In discussing why the most loyal subset of readers would pay for access to the...”
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—Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users « Clay Shirky
This is so important. Publishers often ask me what is the most important metric they should be paying attention to on Tumblr, and I always answer “Love.” Which is squishy and impossible to measure, sure, but nonetheless true:...
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