January 2010
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High-Fiving Yourself Is Really Just Clapping →
Look! Some young companies that do stuff on the internet have coined DUMBO New York’s “Digital District.”
So take that, Madison Avenue, a bunch of kids (relatively speaking, Mike Lebowitz has some grey) just pulled the rug out. And good for them — Madison Avenue, though incredibly convenient, is boring and hollow and inaccessible due to arbitrary doormen. You want a cool job in...
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I'm having an increasingly hard time reconciling...
chrismohney:
This includes people who share the last opinion. Maybe even especially them. I’ll be first over the edge.
AND he’s hiring!
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“What really knocks me out is a book, when you’re all done reading it, you wished...”
– Holden Caulfield (via goldenfiddle)
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@RL_Stine:
My question is: Did J.D. Salinger leave many many manuscripts that can now be released? We know he was writing all these years…
Zinn On His Own Legacy →
(via catsinbagbagsinriver)
Dumont Burger Delivery guy - w4m (Williamsburg)... →
(via w4mbk)
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"This month’s DOs & DON’Ts are written by me, the... →
Click-through at your own risk. Srsly.
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"Foster Kamer wrote a defense of Rahm Emanuel's... →
Say "Online Website" One More Time
I dare you.
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“I could never be a soft-core porn actor. When I set my mind on accomplishing...”
– Jason Fried (via friedisms)
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WatchMost TV Shows Named In One Minute Replacing One Word In Title With “Horse”
Criteria to Beat Record:
Can only replace one non-plural single word title (ie. Seinfeld = Horse) and one plural single word title (ie. Friends = Horses) per attempt
When replacing single word titles, you must say the show you’re referencing, ie. “Horse Seinfeld, Horses - Friends”
Each show...
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waksays:
Grass grows. Massachusetts elects a Republican Senator. AirAmerica goes bankrupt. The Supreme Court grants personhood to corporations. The Independent Film Channel broadcasts Robocop. Waves pound the sand.
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"'Thanks bro,' Brown texted State Sen. Michael...
@Awl:
Scott Brown, Chief Bro — cli.gs/VT0Pz
Nice.
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St. Germain - “Land Of…”
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@BreakingNews:
Oracle Corp. President Charles Phillips admits relationship with woman after billboards appear in major cities — WSJ businessinsider.com/oracle-…
Oh look, BreakingNews just sent a bazillion eyeballs to TBI’s cribbed version of the WSJ story. Two paragraphs lifted directly from the piece, and then a link to “read more at the WSJ.”
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"Mulva?" →
“A conversation in Milwaukee the day after the episode aired led to a law suit in which jurors awarded Jerold J. Mackenzie $26.6 million on July 15, 1997. Mackenzie was terminated by Miller Brewing Co. on the basis that discussing the episode with his secretary constituted sexual harassment. Later, however, the lawsuit was overturned by the court of appeals, and this ruling was upheld by...
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Google Centralizes Haiti People Finder; News Sites... →
Others were thinking of a single, centralized site as well, including designer Tim Schwartz, who created Haitianquake.com, a registry for tracking missing persons.
“I realized immediately that in our Web 2.0 environment, with tons of social networking sites, that missing people information was going to go everywhere on the Internet, and it would be very hard to actually find people and...
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Today In Domain Squatting
Bloggingheads.tv purchases Bigthink.tv - NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH BIGTHINK.COM
(via cats/bags)
This IS the Huffington Post Investigative Fund! →
“Every reader wants certain kinds of information, and we’ve figured out a way to put that together,” he explained. “For example, my friends who work on Wall Street, they can’t go to the office unless they’ve read Page Six. We let people read a story on Afghanistan, then a big entertainment piece, then sports. People have a variety of interests. We’ve...
@NiemanLab:
HuffPo credits Facebook, SEO and a news/entertainment blend for increasing traffic by 6 million users. j.mp/4qWt7F
It took years of research and testing to produce ”Golden Globes Breast Dressed: Who Wore Cleavage Best? (PHOTOS)”
@peretti:
Murdoch should announce expanded national coverage and the end of the WSJ pay wall the same day the NYT starts charging.
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