October 2010
38 posts
September 2010
65 posts
I really want to share a video of this really great sketch but it might be the least Googleable thing ever — the sketch is called “And”, and it’s by The State.
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My short personal anecdote about TechCrunch.
So earlier this year I used to write this blog about Twitter for Slate’s business site, The Big Money, and I just spent all my time tracking down business deals and bugs and just anything that had anything to do with Twitter, and sometimes that meant watching TechCrunch for the stories that they had the money and the reporter-power to track down before anyone else.
But this one time I had...
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AOL & TechCrunch deserve each other.
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Addendum to previous post.
Other things found while Googling (do we capitalize “Googling”?) internet acronyms:
This list of text message acronyms is ridiculous. For example, did you know that an exclamation mark (‘!’) means “I have a comment”?! I have had a lot of comments in that case!
Also, apparently there are people out there using “banana” as short for...
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LWC*: 3-letter internet acronyms (worst to best)
18. FTW
17. NMU
16. EOM
15. GR8
14. SK8
13. BFF
12. IDK
11. NBD
10. BRB
9. ATM
8. FYI
7. IMO
6. BTW
5. IRL
4. WTH
3. WTF
1 (tie). LOL
1 (tie). SMH
*Listicle Without Commentary, duh.
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This is now a food blog (or "flog") (no it isn't)
This evening I took all the extra energy I had from being cooped up in my apartment for two months or so and decided to get some big ol’ thoughts and opinions off my chest! It was exhilarating!
So then I took all the new extra energy I had from and made roquefort-stuffed pork chops. I added some apples and deglazed the pan with beer, but other than that followed the recipe nearly...
I'm a little worried about my generation.
I’m having a hard time putting my finger on it, but there’s something that’s really starting to bother me re: the way my generation is working really hard to present itself, specifically on the internet.
So, this morning or sometime last night I guess, Millennials Magazine launched with its first “issue.” The writing is uniformly good/great (lots of current &...
What should I do?
A couple of months ago (OK, a lot of months ago, like maybe April) I wrote a ~3000 word businessy profile of Tumblr. It was fun to report and try to work out their mysterious business model, etc. and I think the final product is “pretty good.” Maybe a little boring, but basically anything that long that focuses on business is pretty boring.
It was supposed to run in Slate’s The...
“The man said he made six gallons at a time in a big plastic water cooler jug,...”
– In Harlem, Nutcracker Drink Is Popular but Risky - NYTimes.com (via americandrink)
In which us white folks learn about nutcracker. LOLing.
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Let’s start a band!
Free marketing idea that i have never tried but i...
1. Order DVDs from Netflix that people who like your product would like to watch.
2. Open them up and use a sharpie to write your URL on the top of the discs. No harm, no foul.
3. Send back and wait for the mad hits.
4. Repeat.
5. OK it’s not free, it costs whatever a netflix subscription does, but you can use the instant streaming, which is awesome.
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Followup: guess how many times the word “video” appears in the Wikipedia article for OK Go.
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Get these three in a room together and then I’ll believe they’re not one person.
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That blog analyzer thing said I was a happy 13-17 year old with an academic tone this morning. Lol.
Then right now when I tried to reproduce the results it said I’m a 66-100 year old. Guess I’ve been really skewing old this morning.
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Max joins Tumblr, learns new memes, wants to make a face replace.
World keeps spinning.
List of albums that were inestimably important to...
Solange Knowles - Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams
The Walkmen - You & Me
Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow, and Blue
Movies that came out this year that I will...
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
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“Peggle is considered to be an addictive game.[32] The game is stated to have a...”
– You don’t say.
#FF
My friends’ podcast a little while ago featured a brief discussion of this great tumblr:
What’s on Steve Buscemi’s Stoop?
Posts are infrequent, but the concept is worth it. Some dude in Park Slope (I think that’s where Steve Buscemi lives) takes pictures of Steve Buscemi’s stoop every time there’s something unusual on it. FOLLOWED!
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