February 2010
Now we head to the after party.
January 2010
I am about to crash harder than I've crashed since...
meaghano:
meganwest:
After months and months of planning and worrying and working and - I can’t think of the right verbs. Months of everything. After months of my life spent getting the Academy to talk about social media in not just a relevant way but a way that pushes at the music industry I am going to sleep the sleep of the accomplished.
We don’t often get to have a voice, those of us who...
“Does anyone know if AAA covers golf carts?”
I am about to crash harder than I've crashed since...
After months and months of planning and worrying and working and - I can’t think of the right verbs. Months of everything. After months of my life spent getting the Academy to talk about social media in not just a relevant way but a way that pushes at the music industry I am going to sleep the sleep of the accomplished.
We don’t often get to have a voice, those of us who work behind...
“In a possibly insane move—for those that have to staff it—GRAMMY Live! kicks off...”
– Grammys Kick Off 72 Hours of Live Online Coverage
I am going to start referring to everything our digital teams do as a POSSIBLY INSANE MOVE.
shananaomi:
dear @ricksanchezcnn: if you want to know how women use social media, MAYBE YOU SHOULD ASK SOME INSTEAD OF TALKING OVER THEM.
Yep.
Quick thought that deserves more brain meat later
Bolding the awesomeness.
lizlet:
So, last night I watched The Late Shift, which dramatized Jay Leno’s takeover of The Tonight Show in the early 90s, but beyond all the back room dealings it’s really the story of David Letterman walking away from his dream of following in Johnny Carson’s footsteps to instead create his own show. And this morning, The Wrap posted Miramax’s obituary, which gave...
“Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over...”
– Howard Zinn, “The Problem is Civil Disobedience” speech at Johns Hopkins University, November 1970
RIP
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“All these iPad jokes are giving me a flashback to the day the Wii was announced.”
“Growing consumer resistance to HFCS is the likely explanation for a recent...”
– It ends up that “Agave Nectar” is made almost exactly like high fructose corn syrup - converting starch to “manmade chemical fructose.” Great.
Agave Nectar: Worse Than We Thought
But the real question is whether HFCS is actually worse for you—more depleting and more...
“To put yourself forward as someone good enough to do interesting things is, by...”
– A Rant About Women « Clay Shirky (via jaybushman)
Wondering how on earth the above quote was related to a rant on women I found a delightful and truthful rant with this opening summary:
It’s just that until women have role models who are willing to risk incarceration to get ahead, they’ll...
“Reading through these wealthy, powerful people’s glib statements on...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Other people’s privacy
Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With Full...
doctorswithoutborders:
Port-au-Prince/Paris /New York, 17 January 2009—Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations. Priority must be given immediately to planes carrying lifesaving equipment and...
Talking a great game is light years away from having (or being, I’m flexible) what you’ve talked about. The internet is where the gap between talk and action is most obvious, where it becomes clear you either know what you’re talking about or you don’t. You can lie to the internet, I’m not saying you can’t, the internet has perfected new forms of lying;...
“…no critic was prepared for “West Wing” alum Bradley Whitford to turn up onstage...”
– More on Bradley Whitford and ‘Stache-gate | Alan Sepinwall on TV (via jayandbronwenwatchtv)
That is some method acting shit right there.
“The schedule for putting together Saturday Night Live was made back in the...”
– Jay Mohr, Gasping for Airtime (53). (via factsarenothing)
When I go to Canada I’m going to do some reading. As I look through Jess’s library I’ll look back through her Tumblr for where to start.
I am wholesale taking this from Ev Williams
In Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky explains one of the biggest reasons people continue to misunderstand online sharing:
“Most user-generated content is created as communication in small groups, but since we’re so unused to communications media and broadcast media being mixed together, we think that everyone is now broadcasting. This is a mistake. If we listened in on other...
is a dream a lie if it don’t come true / or is it... →
headphonesnotrequired:
lizlet:
Even if you’re not passionate about trans rights, this story is simultaneously horrifying and fascinating and then right back to horrifying again. Short version: trans woman gets in an accident, ends up in a coma, and her family, under the guise of trying to help her, well…
I’m just… floored. Horrified and heartbroken and floored.
I’m reblogging but...
“Do they really expect us to believe that the popularity of reality TV is...”
– Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over
Remember back in 2005 when the common defense used by college kids was that being lax about Facebook privacy was justifiable since only other college kids could see it? I mean, they were wrong, anyone with a .edu address could get an...
“I would love it if you could Tumblr search by who reblogged you.”
The five most throwing-things-worthy bits of that... →
Awesome rebuttal to a baffling article and trend. If nothing else READ NUMBER FIVE BECAUSE OMG TRUE!
maura:
1. “The 50 lanes will be separated into six themed areas. The Chinatown section will feature a gong to bang when you get a strike. To select the food, Mr. Shannon said he was negotiating with a ‘celebrity chef.’” Why can’t people just go bowling to bowl? Why do they have to go bowling to...