August 2012
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“television taught me to see “white” as simply the default for “human.”
– The very white poetry of ‘Mad Men’ | Capital New York
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Lapham's Quarterly: Lapham's Quarterly is looking... →
npr:
laphamsquarterly:
We are in need of an editorial intern for the fall, from September 17th to November 23rd. The internship is ideal for someone who has finished college in the spring and is looking to put that liberal arts degree to work. You will get a say in all of our editorial meetings, you will contribute to the magazine, you will write for the website, and you will be an essential...
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fashionabecedaire replied to your video: (via Yogaslackers Present: What is Slackline yoga… Have you tried it?
Not yet.
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“So what’s so special about news sites, when every site on the internet is...”
– Hijacking the news: how hackers are manipulating the press from the inside out | The Verge
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“How does email have such staying power?
Email is still the killer app. It...”
– NextDraft’s Dave Pell on why email is still the killer app | The Verge
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“But the best explanation for Fox glam may be the channel’s largely conservative...”
– Foxy Ladies - Liza Mundy - The Atlantic
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“I am actually relieved to see these kinds of responses, because they accurately...”
– Pankaj Mishra, author of the excellent anti-imperialism book From the Ruins of Empire, responds to those criticizing his book for being “polemicist.”
A brilliant conversation between Mishra and Tabish Khair can be read here. (via mehreenkasana)
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“This is what David Carr is pointing out about the actions of Jonah Lehrer and...”
– What It Takes: Art and Manipulation
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“What the superstar phenomenon gives, it can also threaten to take away (though,...”
– top-tier public intellectals have acquired greater power than they used to possess. What they resist on occasion is the responsibility that comes with that power. All of this (and so many parallels with the fetishization of ‘foreign educated’ ‘intellectuals’ in the...
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Niall Ferguson and the Rage Against the... →
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“As a cruel trick on myself, about a month ago I installed Windows 8 on my main...”
– Go on, tell us how you really feel.
Why I’m uninstalling Windows 8 - PCGamesN
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How Come Nobody Thinks Stopping People From Moving... →
Cardiff Garcia brings us the 1864 Republican Party platform on immigration: “Resolved, That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.”
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“The smart (or jaded) money on the internet sees video (remember, video has been...”
– ‘Moving pictures will not be denied. He who controls video controls the media.’ Discuss.
HuffPost Live: a terrible debut, but don’t rule out online video | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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“Among some of the more disturbing items:
Bill Clinton is a senior statesman of...”
– More from the full, 75-item list: They can’t picture people actually carrying luggage through airports rather than rolling it. Their folks have never gazed with pride on a new set of bound encyclopedias on the bookshelf. While the iconic TV series for their older siblings was the sci-fi show Lost,...
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South Korea strikes down law requiring real name... →
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Heavy dose of hyperlinks gets defamation lawsuit... →
The sources upon which the authors rely for their conclusions are specified, and the article incorporates active links to many of the original sources—mainly Web sites and promotional material created and maintained by Redmond and his ventures… Having ready access to the same facts as the authors, readers were put in a position to draw their own conclusions about Redmond and his ventures...
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Plagiarism, defamation and the power of hyperlinks →
buzzfeed:
worry-about-the-wind:
I was scrolling through BuzzFeed, and I guess I scrolled as far as it would let me go, because suddenly the video for Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road” started playing.
Okay, BuzzFeed. Clever. Well played.
Easily the most important feature on our site.
It’s the small things.
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“Newspapers have traditionally had multiple layers of editors to filter out most...”
– Don’t blame Twitter when journos tweet stupid things; blame stupidity « The Buttry Diary
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“In the Age of Links, we still use credentials and rely on authorities. Those are...”
– 2009, ya’ll.
Joho the Blog » Transparency is the new objectivity
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“while people on Facebook tend to friend their friends, people on Twitter tend to...”
– Oh, those normal people.
Black Widow | Dustin Curtis
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“Every woman knows what I’m talking about. It’s the presumption that...”
– The Problem With Men Explaining Things | Mother Jones
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“These Gen Y’s - millennials - coming in having led these incredibly...”
– Daniel Pink on motivation
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“Calling Twitter and Branch and Quora “media companies” is a new and...”
– All of this. Should be read in tandem with another super-smart BuzzFeed piece, “The Twitter Hit List”.
Get Ready For The Great Embeddening
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“if you are traveling east, you must expose yourself to light early, advancing...”
– I’ve had good results with fasting to beat jet-lag.
A Battle Plan for Jet Lag - NYTimes.com
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“Cheating in Scrabble is rare; according to NASPA, there have been just five...”
– Scrabble cheating: The real story behind the stolen-blanks scandal at the National Scrabble Championship. - Slate Magazine
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“The problem is that much of the Web is just too overcrowded for tablet displays....”
– Should web designers should make sites for phones and tablets first?
Web design for tablets: Forget the desktop—smartphone and tablet sites should come first. - Slate Magazine
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The Rise of the CMO | Blog @ Percolate →
jamesgross:
I wrote some thoughts down on the shifting nature of the CMO and how that changes the enterprise.
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“The looking glass was now a mirror; instead of reinventing us, the web simply...”
– The Condition: Chronic Self-Disclosure | The Awl
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“we continue to see the online-equivalents of retailers and fashion brands being...”
– Groupon is not a tech company. Why was it valued like one? — Tech News and Analysis
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“it indicates how pathetic much of our web design is when our visitors...”
– Web Design Manifesto 2012 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report 