July 9, 2009
The Faster Times
Another lots-of-people-writing-freebie-columns thing just launched: The Faster Times.
July 8, 2009
Just witnessed five midgets arguing with a cab driver about how many of them can legally fit in the car. NYC, I love you again.
[…blah, blah, blah…] I’ve never worked with smarter interns. Here’s one of them. He’s one of the top rated Scrabble players in America, but… but his arrows is trending down, sad.
It’s strange how giving someone your area code sometimes creates camaraderie.
Google OS
Points to Kottke for predicting the Google OS back way in 2004.
July 7, 2009
New Liberal Arts
The New Liberal Arts book is out (background). I have an essay type thing on “Reality Engineering.”
The Real Reason You Should Hate The Media (And That Includes Us)
July 6, 2009
Boo!
Next time you promise a Megan Fox red band trailer, you better deliver.
“ vampiracly [sic]

Rexy (via caro)

Never try blogging at 3am after working 16 hours.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-5)
  1. Santigold (15) 
  2. Neil Young (13) 
  3. Kid Cudi (3) 
  4. Heart (1) 
  5. Jay-Z (1) 
We launched Mediaite tonight: http://bit.ly/Gvkqu TIRED.
Mediate Launch
Today we announced the launch of Mediaite.com, a new site that covers all dimensions of the media world. I advised on it, including doing the design and development. Most of my previous launch…
July 5, 2009
The Odd Politics of Minnesota
David Carr: Al Franken and the Odd Politics of Minnesota.

My first iPhone 3GS video. It uploads directly to YouTube, and the quality is decent. And Zuki totally pinned that other chump.

But I need to remember to shoot horizontally.

July 3, 2009
Twitter Shortcuts
Twitter shortcuts. Several things in here that I had no idea about.