February 2012
“I have a talk about a tech/music/community project I founded scheduled at...”
– On being harassed: a little GF history and some current events | Geek Feminism Blog
Mandatory reading. The rest is there, go now.
On advertising: Banksy vs. Gossage
austinkleon:
This Banksy quote from Cut It Out has been making the rounds:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on...
“The phrase “timing is everything” should be the mantra for all...”
– Facebook is not your website (no matter how much you wish it was) – The Bazaarvoice Social Commerce Blog
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Fanma.de Tumblr Music Survey #1
blurintofocus:
allfanmade:
We are running a survey on Tumblr and Music for our upcoming SXSW Panel — Reblog Culture: Tumblr and Social Music Fandom. Won’t you fill it out please? Pass it around! We’re excited to hear about how you use Tumblr! (If you’re looking on your dash, click click, or the survey is embedded below.)
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IMPORTANT. Come take our survey so we can talk about...
“There’s some sort of disgrace to being a reader, or a viewer, or just absorbing...”
– The Chimerist: How We Will Read: Laura Miller and Maud Newton
The power of the fan: consumption is creative.
(via allfanmade)
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“The next time you take a swipe at Social Media Experts, imagine you had just...”
– Lay off the Social Media Experts by Rick Webb (via nickdouglas)
Being paid to be a Social Media Expert would be amazing. So, I guess to any Social Media Expert upset by “people insinuating that you have no skill” I have to say: Wahhhhh
(via thenewhotness)
Haha dude, I am not a social media...
NBC and 'Community' Launching 'Inspector... →
amypop:
popculturebrain:
hulu:
Turns out the question really is when. 4 awesome words say it all: Inspector Spacetime web series.
From i09:
Word out of the Gallifrey One Doctor Whoconvention is that there is going to be a web series of Community’s Who-parody showInspector Spacetime. It sounds like it won’t be Donald Glover and Danny Pudi in the starring roles, however. Travis Richey,...
The Comedians, The Mob and the American Supperclub... →
betheboy:
Back in 1933, when President Roosevelt gave Americans the okay to get drunk, speakeasy proprietors scrambled to stave off irrelevance. The bootleg profits amassed during the dry years gave rise to the Mob. When the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed, the Mob was left with hundreds of useless venues furnished with every conceivable liquor serving accoutrement. They salvaged their...
“Consumers going through major life events often don’t notice, or care, that...”
– How Companies Learn Your Secrets - NYTimes.com
“Every time a man writes that Pinterest is successful because...”
– HOW TO STOP BEING A PINTEREST SEXIST | Clever Girls Collective
I am so fucking glad someone finally wrote this article.
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“Consider the declining appeal of homeownership. The idea that a couple should...”
– Adulthood, Delayed: What Has the Recession Done to Millennials? - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic
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But you? You are not Steve Jobs.
The saddest thing about the Steve Jobs hagiography is all the young “incubator twerps” strutting around Mountain View deliberately cultivating their worst personality traits because they imagine that’s what made Steve Jobs a design genius. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, young twerp.
A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky
“Speaking of which, educated wives also get better sex, whatever their partner’s...”
– - Stephanie Coontz, killing it (via morninggloria)
BAMF.
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John Scalzi on the Komen Debacle
pagent:
“Leaving out any direct issues of morality or politics (I know, I know, go with me for a minute here), what’s basically happened is that on account of $700,000 worth of grants, the Susan G. Komen Foundation in just one week wrecked a billion-dollar brand identity that took decades to develop. Solely from the point of view of policy and brand strategy, it’s impressive in an entirely...
“Across most of the 83 product categories, we found that consumers’ loyalty now...”
– MediaPost Publications Brand Experience, Values Increasingly Drive Loyalty 02/06/2012
AKA, you can’t just be the best product, you need an emotional hook.
this video did not go viral →
hungryjughead:
Not the first time I’ve heard someone’s head nearly explode over the much-abused term ‘viral video,’ which makes complete sense if you imagine what a VIRAL video would actually be:
Here’s what a viral video would actually be: I receive a link from a friend to watch a hilarious YouTube video of a cat walking on a birthday cake. I click said link. Some malicious code on the page...
Granite: Why every homeowner wants a piece of the... →
bronwen:
“People wanting granite countertops is people wanting to sound like they know what they’re talking about,” Carino says. “It’s like listening to two guys talk about hot-rod cars.”
DRINK
Seize it. Seize the countertop.
Bring it home and install it. Styles may fade, but it would take eons and eons for the granite to crumble, returning to the elements from whence it came. Have...
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“According to Miss Representation, the organization that launched the...”
– Twitter Talks Back to Sexist Super Bowl Ads | Mother Jones
This is largely what confuses me about sexist advertising. When you want someone’s money why would you silence or ignore them?
Also read: Ten Lady Innovators Best Buy Could’ve Put in Its Super Bowl Ad
nonmodernist:
‘I don’t read novels,’ Tietjens answered. ‘I know what’s in ‘em. There has been nothing worth reading written in England since the eighteenth century except by a woman…But it’s natural for your enamel splashers to want to see themselves in a bright and variegated literature. Why shouldn’t they? It’s a healthy, human desire, and now that printing and paper are cheap they get it...
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Facebook's Culture of Fast Innovation
thoughtyoushouldseethis:
I’m not going to delve into Facebook’s S-1 IPO filing, given that the world’s press has done a pretty thorough job of that already. (As TechCrunch writer, Alexia Tsotsis, put it: “This Facebook S-1 is like an animal carcass and us bloggers are like a pack of rabid wolves.”)
But it’s here, if you do want to read it. And it *is* pretty fascinating. This phrase stuck out...
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The Downton Abbey Cocktail
bijou156:
clairiere:
whimsandfancythings:
Half a lime, squeezed, 3 parts Hendricks gin to 2 parts St Germaine, topped with Champagne.
Wonder if this is where they serve(d) it:
Heheh I wonder if they will all have a Downton cocktail on the premier night? lol They all look smart and chic!
Things, in list format:
Dan Stevens apparently tweeted about the Downton Abbey cocktail —...
Social media slang
digitalslurp:
The growing popularity of Pinterest got me thinking today. So I made up a bit of social media slang for you to insert into your everyday lives. Enjoy.
Pinterested (adj): I’m kinda pinteresed in that.
Pinteresting (adj): Your house is very pinteresting.
Unpinterested (adj): I’ve become unpinterested with this campaign.
Unpinteresting (adj): I find this blog to be...