September 2010
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What's the very last song you listened to?
That is a great question. I have been listening to my iPhone iPod in alphabetical order by song for about 2 weeks, starting with “Nothing Compares 2 U” two weekends ago. I’m up to “P.” So the last song I listened to was “Plans” by Dinosaur Jr, and right before that were “Plainsong” by the Cure and “Plain Gold Ring (Live)” by Nick...
August 2010
“In all my years in business, I have yet to hear someone say: “I love corporate...”
– How to Minimize Politics in Your Company // ben’s blog
This is a great article about managing office politics. (via Fred Wilson)
The average freelancer in NY is owed $12,000 by... →
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Scary. (via nymag)
Wow. Jerks.
Okay, I know I’m risking getting jumped on for being a capitalist again - and just to clear the air I did a quick calculation of our AP to freelancers and it’s about half of this with the majority being under 30 days past due. But the thing is, this is not entirely fair in my business. I mean I guess with journalists...
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Awesome TechCrunch plug. Congrats Brooke!
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If you had to give a speech in front of 1,000...
They pretty much tell you the topic, generally, when you speak in front of that many people. They pretty much always ask me to speak about the same stuff (marketers, the future of agency models, etc. etc.)
If I had my druthers I’d probably speak about Anaïs Nin’s cuckolded first husband’s extramarital love life.
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“The magic age is people born after 1981,” said Sam Altman in a New York Times...”
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i’ve always said that the dividing line between internet natives and their elder generations is whether or not you had sex or the internet first.
People born after 1981 have lower privacy standards
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but what about sex ON the internet?
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The...
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Young Manhattanite: rickwebb: ... You give up the... →
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You give up the game right here: “by a pretty disgusting company.”
The other big thing in my Tumblr yesterday was this - nearly 2,000 people liking that some guy drew a three mile long paint tag across manhattan. What is the difference? One is a hip tagging artist and one…
Two quick points: First, Just to be clear, I don’t think working at an ad agency is some...
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how is your sunday going so far?
My sunday is going awesome! I am doing nothing! It rules! YAY INTERNET!
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how has your weekend been so far?
Friday was a nice date night with my girl, and last night I hosted a party for Alice Tiara and it was AWESOME.
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Young Manhattanite: nycthe: ... Some people care... →
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Some people care about the community they live in, Rick.
OH NO! Makes you wish you hadn’t bothered looking at Tumblr almost EVER?? Pretty severe, dude. Where’d you get the ounce of outrage to think that? And congratulations on the most asinine defense for littering and vandalism…
You give up the game right here: “by a pretty disgusting company.”
The other...
For once I'm agreeing with Micheal Arrington. →
sarahkunst:
“I will say this. The next time you women want to start pointing the finger at me when discussing the problem of too few women in tech, just stop. Look in the mirror. And realize this – there are women like Sklar who complain about how there are too few women in tech, and then there are women just who go out and start companies (like this one). Let’s have less of the former and more...
WatchInto the Trees, Landscape study 04 (by flight404)
the michael galpert experience: Behaviour Guide by... →
(In order to avoid mere survival) Intended for younger generations
1. Although appearance shows quite the reverse, the natural trend of the system is to turn you into a slave. Your mission is to remain erect, and never crawl.
I think perhaps the universe isn’t trying to make us slaves, it’s offering us tough love. We will never be free and independent until we’ve survived...
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Who would play you in a movie about your life?
Chris Farley! oh wait.
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Life is hard. Here is someone.: lovestampede: ...... →
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Okay I love you and I don’t know what succotash is either but we need to talk about this as I have been developing a similar obsession with this awareness that some people do errands all the time and probably do them on the day they think of them—and then I think, my GOD you…
I had a roommate back in “the nineties,” a trust fund girl, and all she ever...
Copycats vs. Copyrights - Newsweek →
This was a mildly interesting article, even if it was written from that default anti-copyright bent that the kids love so much, left out the whole World Intellectual Property Organization findings around fashion copyrights and made it seem like it was some random lark of Schumer’s, and rather dubiously claimed “billions of dollars of profit” for “the largest fashion...
Caroline McCarthy: A Hack's Life →
Some thoughts on the odd social position of the journalist, which I’ve been thinking of putting together for some time now:
As a young business reporter, particularly one covering an industry staffed with interesting and often like-minded people from your set of peers, you need to be an…
This was fascinating I’ve actually always wondered about this with Caroline. It also reminds...
“it’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to...”
– Clayton Christensen
How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review
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I don’t think I can disagree with this vehemently enough.
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I’m curious as to why and what aspects? Is it the overall idea or the phrase ”...
“it’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to...”
– Clayton Christensen
How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review
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I don’t think I can disagree with this vehemently enough.
“I wrote on the Crass Facebook how ironic it is that the intergalactic anarchists...”
– Steve Ignorant, in ANARCHY AND PEACE, LITIGATED - A Brief History of the Idealistic Punk Icons Crass, and Why in 2010 They Are Going to Court Over Some Total Bullshit - Vice Magazine
Crass has a “Facebook”? That just seems so amazing.
“But the idea that an uptick in angel-backed companies will result in fewer huge...”
– Do tech entrepreneurs need VCs? | Analysis & Opinion |
Haha. Yeah. That would be awesome. But that does not seem to happen. So far as I can tell is that the new investors basically invest in the company, take a shit ton of equity, dilute the angel’s share, and tie the angel to their...
“Technically, [Wyclef Jean] shouldn’t be eligible because he hasn’t...”
– Pitchfork: Echo Chamber: Win Butler on Wyclef
My favorite part of this is thinking of Haiti’s government as a “really complex government.” I’m not really convinced it’s THAT complex, as governments go. ;)
Watchsciencevsromance:
I am so excited that Vincent Moon is coming to Seattle for a whole week at the Northwest Film Forum [nwff]. I love many of them, but this is maybe my favorite takeaway show. The moment where Zach Condon sits down at the cafe table full of brass instruments after strumming alone in front of the boulangerie is just so indelible and perfect. It gets me every time. (Beirut - LA...
