November 2011
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October 2011
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David Carr talks journalism, technology, social... →
Always fun to hear David’s take on just about anything. This NPR interview with Terry Gross does not disappoint.
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“People sometimes talk about the Internet as if it somehow supplants or replaces...”
– Matthew Yglesias
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Live cam feed of the Aurora Borealis from... →
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Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By iTunes Creator →
parislemon:
Way too much smoke gathering for there not to be some kind of fire. The real question: just how far along is this project?
Steve Jobs telling Walter Isaacson, “I finally cracked it” sure sounds promising. But in the 60 Minutes episode about the biography, Isaacson notes that the one area Jobs would have liked to transform was television — indicating that it may not happen. Of...
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Obama Admin. Approves BP’s Plans to Drill in Gulf... →
New York Times : The Obama administration on Friday took another step toward allowing BP to return to the Gulf of Mexico, approving the first oil drilling plan for the company there since the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig more than a year ago.
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“No one, least of all me, is suggesting that running a newspaper company is a...”
– David Carr gives media execs who lay off workers while lavishing bonuses on themselves the SMACKDOWN. Worth a read. (via cmonstah)
This is a really important point that doesn’t get made enough: A lot of big media’s wounds are self-inflicted. To take an example from one truck that ran out of gas,...
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Who the Heck Are the "Top 1%"?!!
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In case you missed my CNN segment on it, here are 5 things you need to know: 1. To get into the “top 1%” of Americans you don’t need to be a billionaire or millionaire or half-millionaire. The minimum wage earners in that group make about $343k/year. 2. Financial services professionals (a.k.a. “Wall Street”) average $311k/year — so they technically don’t make it into the...
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“Jobs said that the past twelve years of his life, since his return to Apple, had...”
– Walter Issacson
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For the Barbarians, A High-Seas Invite.
cjchivers:
Since returning from Afghanistan last week, I’ve been worried about a debt past due. What do I mean? Well, there’s a small story here, and it’s about this website and the other social media tools that we have been using to push news alongside the daily bread at the NYT. And the background is below:
A little more than a year back, the crew at The Barbarian Group set up this tumblr,...
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“The top earners are paying significantly less in taxes than the bottom earners....”
– The Green State
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“Seeing your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into...”
– John Le Carré via @jackshafer
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The full 60 Minutes interview with Steve Jobs... →
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Beast of Burden : The Rolling Stones
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Ryan Adams : To Be Young
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“Imagine, if you will, someone who read only the Wall Street Journal editorial...”
– David Frum : Krugman was right, I was wrong about the economy
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Get Paid for Taking Pictures with Your iPhone →
Grab five to ten minutes here or there, at the right time and the right place, to complete a massive task no one person could do on his or her own. That’s exactly what a new startup called Gigwalk is trying to do, using the power of– you guessed it– the iPhone. You download the app, enter your PayPal information and get assigned entry level “gigs” or jobs that may take just a few minutes at...
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“Listen to the god damn intro you wrote. “Don’t take that as a knock...”
– Hamilton Nolan
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Details emerge from Steve Job biography →
He called Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design chief, his “spiritual partner” at Apple. He told Isaacson that Ive had “more operation power” at Apple than anyone besides Jobs himself — that there’s no one at the company who can tell Ive what to do. That, says Jobs, is “the way I set it up.”
“To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within...”
– Andrew Sullivan
Watchjoshsternberg:
Video of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton first getting word, via Blackberry, of Gaddafi’s death edit: captured (sorry). “Wow.”
Ryan McCarthy's Brain
alexleo:
Working my way through my fabulous Reuters colleagues, here’s my take on Ryan McCarthy’s brain. See also: Felix Salmon’s brain and Anthony De Rosa’s brain.
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“The company was founded in the nineteenth century when a German immigrant named...”
– Gabriel Sherman
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