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I guess take patriotism where you can find it? I'll stick with eagles and bottomless cups of coffee. (via Hi Lo Brow).
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Business Week interview with Tyler Brule on his Monocle Magazine and its unlikely success
Someone making magazines profitable in 2010. I could learn a lot from this fellow. (via All About George.com).
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Why Intelligent People Fail: Same reasons everyone else does
Scary and still great reading (via kottke.org).
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Finland makes broadband a 'legal right': BBC News
on the next Jetson's tube for Helsinki. (via Arts Journal.com).
July 05, 2010
Required Reading: "Ty Cobb, Monocle Magazine, and Failing as a Smart Person"
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Technorati Tags: baseball, comics, failure, family, intelligence, journalism, journalism, magazines, media, monoclemagazines, murder, patriotism, superheroes, tycobb
June 11, 2010
Required Reading: "Arts Funding, David Foster Wallace Commencement Address and Xerox Machines."
- Is network TV actually doing better than we thought? This year's upfronts suggest so. I'd like to know if "upfronts" have been recalculated based on ads skipped by Tivos and the like. Also, do products placements count in this total?
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Perhaps everything we thought about arts funding needs to change.
“The real problem is the narrowness of the frame within which we think and talk about culture,” Exactly. (via Arts Journal) -
The Atlantic profiles the first Xerox Machine, "the device that birthed the Information Age." Just why I read this magazine.
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Legendary David Foster Wallace commencement address now available on iTunes.
Just downloaded and listened. Required for anyone who feels constantly annoyed and frustrated by the daily travails of life. (via kottke.org)
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Book owners have smarter kids: Salon.com Well duh. Now stand aside and let the sanctimony fly.
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You said it!
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Technorati Tags: advertising, arts, books, business, children, culture, davidfosterwallace, design, dfw, funding, hotels, intelligence, parents, television, upfronts, xerox
May 18, 2010
Required Reading: "Nina Simone, CEOs and The Economics of Creativity"
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Looks amazing...
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I need to read this(tags: leadership business)
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0$ is a possibility (via Arts Journal)
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Technorati Tags: business, businessweek, CEOs, creativity, design, economics, Firstaid
April 20, 2010
Required Reading: "Celebrity Sex Tapes, Sex and the City 2 and Other Great Jobs"
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Perhaps...(via Book Forum)
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or 1/8 a pair of Manolo Blahniks...
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A must read...
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I'll be in here someday... (via Arts Journal)
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via Arts Journal
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Technorati Tags: advertising, ageofpersuasion, arts, book, celebrity, cities, culture, employment, fame, film, ipad, literature, marketing, movie, sexandthecity, twitter, work
March 20, 2010
Required Reading: "Collective Ventures, Real Authors and Healthy Garlic"
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Now that is way cool...
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I never thought I'd see the day...(tags: movietheaters sanfrancisco)
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...is a blog about brands and advertising..
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via BookForum
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I have learned this the hard way (via 43 folders).
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I knew this but it still makes me happy
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via AL Daily
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Technorati Tags: andyspade, backup, baratunde, blog, brands, chinatown, cinema, diversity, film, garlic, movietheater, race, sanfrancisco, vc, venturecapital, work, zadiesmith
February 05, 2010
Required Reading: "Sledding Tigers, Self-propagating Magazines and Talking Zoo Keys"
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Welcome back.
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a must read on evolution of the arts (via Salon97)
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Self-explanatory and a great name for a band
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The hippocratc oath of creativity (via girlwonder.com)
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Intriguing. Tasty? (via BookForum)
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Ironically from the now closed Folio Magazine (via BookForum)
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Technorati Tags: billwatterson, calvinandhobbes, classicalmusic, comics, futureof, magazines, music, mymag, predictions, samsheppard, trends, work
February 01, 2010
Required Reading: "A Girl Named Drive, A Game Named Zelda, A Fall At 35,000 Feet"
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via The Awl
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I'm getting mopey with joy.
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I'd like to see them try...
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As am I...
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Great blogs (via Subtraction)
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No argument here (via Buzz Anderson)
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Quivering...
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Technorati Tags: amusementpark, chocolate, concerts, design, falling, feminism, games, gender, girldrive, health, lifehacks, livenation, merger, movies, netflix, nostaliga, organizations, pepsi, spaceland, spd, ticketmaster, venues, videogames, zelda
January 23, 2010
Required Reading: "Metered Models, Branded Dummies and Untrained DJs"
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I'm cautiously optimistic... (via Tigerbeat)
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Fascinating instead of complainy...
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Please check out LBJ talking to his tailor.
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via Arts Journal
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Killer! (via Culturebot)
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Sad, haunting (via Cinema Treasures)
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I'd have to read them to tell you...
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This web-only publication by The Economist can do no wrong.
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Like ice cream that looks like buildings. Hmmm
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Must get immediately *scratch* *scratch* (via Danger is My First Name)
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Only one thing? (via All About George.com)
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Technorati Tags: audiences, business, culture, djay, dummies, government, music, newspapers, ontheboardstv, publishing, whitehouse, whitehousetapes
December 31, 2009
Required Reading: "Things Killed by the Internet, Make Worse by Booze, and Make More Complicated by Technology"
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You can say that again (via Arts Journal)
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Works on me. (via All About George)
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Finality. Yum. (via The Elegant Variation)
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How to "Thumbs Down" while keeping both hands on the wheel? (via Hear 2.0)
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Now 23% more organic...
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Sorry needed, probably neglected (via Kimberly Blessing)
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We all need to strive for something (via Fark)
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I for one welcome our comfort food overlords.
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An old saw but a servicable one (via MediaBistro)
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Technorati Tags: alcohol, books, cars, culture, food, future, internet, menus, music, pandora, profile, restaurants, technology, trends, wholefoods
December 21, 2009
Required Reading: "Indie Sweethearts, Why the Simpsons No Longer Matter and the Death of RSS"
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Thawoop! Bang!
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Growling expected... (via Largehearted Boy)
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via Kottke.org
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Too few of them, to be sure.
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File under "who cares?"
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hmmmm...
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The answer will surprise you (via Arts Journal)
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Sad but probably true...
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One hopes...
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Technorati Tags: books, commercials, culture, economics, economy, indie, manufacturing, mba, productivity, reading, rss, sellingout, technology, television, thesimpsons, time, tv
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