January 2012
David Foster Wallace's 10 Favorite Books →
Tom Clancy, not Tom Pynchon.
Forget the Del Rey dis, the big news here is that... →
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) Will Wright Is Back. Whah! “If we had that much situational awareness about you and at the same time we were building this very high-level map of the world, and I don’t just mean where Starbuck’s is, but all sorts of things like historical footnotes and people you might want to meet. I started thinking about games that we can build...
“We must be more like Facebook and less like The Awl.”
– Choose Your Poison: Uh-oh! | Hrm! | Finally! | WTF!
December 2011
“Be as weird as you can, just so it stands out. Because who needs a new website?”
– STAY WEIRD, INTERNET!
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) Girls Trailer. In addition to that, HBO also dropped the trailer to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s comedy, Veep.
2) “I chose life instead.” On why I’m not doing the year-end lists anymore.
3) AshleyMadison.com Endorses Newt Gingrich For President. Who should OK Cupid endorse? How About We?
4) This Post about Kickstarter on The...
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong-il. THEY ALL DESERVE OSCARS. (This video will be a pervasive meme in 5… 4…)
2) WHERETHEFUCKSHOULDIGOFORDRINKS. (dot-com)
3) Distrust That Particular Flavor. William Gibson has a book of non-fiction coming out next month.
4) Rob Delaney’s new Comedy Central Show Using...
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) The Spielberg Face. Once you’ve seen it, you can never not see it.
2) The 20 Unhappiest People You Meet In The Comments Sections Of Year-End Lists. Yes.
3) WhoSay Strikes Deal With AP. The future is celebrities owning and distributing their own gossip.
4) Ebert’s Best Films of 2011. Someone kept Drive on their list!
5) Jack Shafer:...
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) 25 Most Viral People. (On the internet.)
2) VCs Predict What Will Happen In 2012.
3) CNN: A Social Media Addict Tries to Disconnect. Day 1: “I land at Antigua’s airport, where I’m greeted by warm sunshine, a long customs line and a man playing Bob Marley’s ‘Three Little Birds’ on a tin drum. All of these...
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
1) VC Memes. Well. Done.
2) All the End Of Year Stuff At Pitchfork.
3) Biz Insider Launched an Advertising Vertical Last Week. Servicey.
4) Best New Blogs of 2011.
5) P.R. Stunts in a Digital Era. “A lot of brands are seeing the value in a P.R. rep who has an online persona that can be used to magnify the brand message.” Some boner actually said that.
Spiersblr: The Riches; They Buy Things! →
spiers:
(Or at the very least, bet against it with me on the other side of the wager so I can make some money off the deal. Any takers? Rex? Felix?)
Oh god, no way. Spiers will win that one. No one kills a magazine in less than a year! Even Portfolio and Talk made it almost two years. (Oh wait, there was Radar….)
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) Klosterman on Tebow. The interesting thing here is that it seems to start as another analysis of hater culture, but then it does a few back-flips and turn-arounds and, oh christ, it’s about faith!
2) WeedMaps Acquires Marijuana.com For $4.2 Million. You missed this breaking news over Thanksgiving.
3) The yearly Hood Internet dropped.
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My New Year’s Resolution is to read the two zines that I bought this year.
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) You Say You Want a Devolution? Here’s an interesting thesis from Kurt Anderson in Vanity Fair: While there have been massive technological changes in the past 20 years, everything looks the same. That is, he suggests, if you looked at a random snapshot from 1991, the people and buildings and cultural objects would mostly look the same as today....
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) The Bitter Email Exchange between David Denby and Scott Rudin over the Review Embargo of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Rudin missed such a great opportunity to use a scathing Subject line!
2) Aaron Sorkin’s New Project: Newsroom. People who say they aren’t excited for this are lying.
3) Bjork’s Favorite Recordings.
4) The...
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) Barney Frank’s Best Insults.
2) Richard Lawson in Atlantic Wire. How fast did this become the best writing online? In just weeks, we’ve received thought pieces like When Fans Attack and movie reviews that read like the best of the New Yorker (so: Anthony Lane not David Denby), while still satisfying us in that off-hand impulsive bloggy...
WatchTeaser video of Sleigh Bells’ new forthcoming album, Reign of Terror.
It’s also LOUD.
The performance of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Maps,"... →
youngmanhattanite:
That was the last time I went to an Internet party.
You haven’t missed much. Now it’s all people with made-up names (David Shapiro, Carles) or names that sound made-up (Foster Kamer, Tao Lin) plus some old-timers with already dubious names (Lockhart Steele, Michael Bloomberg, Rex Sorgatz) lip-syncing to underground sensations (Odd Future, Taylor Swift) to...
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes...
Five things that intrigue me right now, which may or may not be “the future of content”:
1) Willie Nelson covered Coldplay’s “The Scientist” for a Chipotle commercial. All those proper nouns in the same sentence!
2) Serious Business. That’s Alex Blagg’s new “intertainment firm.” (Oh how soon they become what they parody!) His partners...
November 2011
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) Minneapolis Is A Startup Powerhouse! Sure, why not?
2) Let’s Not Party Like It’s 1999. All party reporting should be like Rick’s.
3) Marc Maron Podcast. I finally listened to this over Thanksgiving. So good.
4) Those Pics of DiCaprio as Gatsby Floating Around the Internet.
5) YouTube Innovation. For the first couple years...
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) Daughterly Nepotism. Oooooh, boy. Chelsea Clinton, Jenna Bush, and Meghan McCain now all work for work for NBC. This makes me miss the 30 Rock cafeteria!
2) The Bipolar Reactions that Lana Del Rey Elicits. Watch the video and then look at those comments!
3) Slaughterhouse 90210 Entries Like This One. She’s still got it.
4) After 17 years on...
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) This Appealing Headline. “The Atlantic’s online ad revenue exceeds print”
2) This sentence in Vanessa’s profile of Arianna Huffington. “It’s a feat — Huffington’s characteristic gift — to aggregate childbirth, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Tiger Moms, a cow, Nancy Reagan, and unconditional love into one...
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) This NYT Map of NYC Startups.
2) How I Ended Up Leaving Poynter. Jim’s highly-detailed account doesn’t make Poynter look worse, but they sure don’t look any better.
3) Betabeat’s Most Poachable Players in Tech. The best thing about this is not knowing most of these people.
4) Sylo. I love when people do creative things...
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) Reddit IAmA. Most people are pretty familiar with this amazing series on Reddit, but it’s interesting that content programming this precise and defined has emerged organically out of a user-generated platform.
2) Grantland’s YouTube Hall of Fame. On the opposite end of the spectrum is this highly programmed concept which is a goldmine of...
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) Match the DeLillo to The Cover. 10 for 10.
2) Kabletown. I’ve heard NBC employees — including executives — actually refer to Comcast as Kabletown, even at work. I’ll be surprised if this will be allowed to continue forever.
3) Sarah Silverman’s 13 Breakup Songs. I made it into a Spotify list.
4) Felix Salmon: The...
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“The intern can update the Tumblr from now on.”
– Something I’m hearing more companies say lately.
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Your 5 Favorite Things for the Next 5 Minutes
Five things that intrigue me right now:
1) This Nick Denton Quote. “The problem is the boring people online — they’re incredibly difficult to get rid of, because they’re often really nice.”
2) ThinkUp 1.0. Finally! (Sorry, Gina and Andy, but a lot of people are excited for ThinkUp, which allows you to back up all your personal/social data to a web server.)
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