December 2009
seth sent this to me and followed it up with a page on my pager that listed his number and when I called him he said, “Now you can show people how you feel inside”
November 2009
“Historically, young women and men who sought to thrive in publishing made their...”
– David Carr on his blog
[@tomelko]
No names, no links: Writers give themselves a pass...
jayrosen:
Mark Cuban: Rupert Murdoch to Block Google = Smart
I love to tweak all the internet information must be free bigots. They get so damn religious about information on the net that they lose what little objectivity and awareness of the real world they had in the first place
Wherever it’s found, bigotry deserves to be called out— say, with a link? Plus, tweaking people you ID is...
“Consider this: as media companies scramble to identify new and innovative ways...”
– saw another link to Alisa Leonard-Hansen’s guest post at ReadWriteWeb; you should check it out if you haven’t seen it yet
“If this is her game of Scrabble, you can only imagine what her foreign policy...”
– Tyler Cowen breaks down Sarah Palin’s scrabble strategy, as revealed in “Going Rogue.” Marginal Revolution (via somethingchanged) (via wearethedigitalkids)
Are Banks Terrorists? →
The logic of terrorism is simple. To intimidate a state into action or inaction. If you don’t give us what we want, we’ll blow something up. Do it - or else. Exactly the same logic has been at work throughout the financial crisis. The state has been terrorized into action - and inaction. Too big to fail is a weapon of economic intimidation - just like a bomb threat. If you don’t...
“Why do we Tumbl? In the end, we use Tumblr not because it’s a great way to...”
– Newsweek: Why We Tumbl | meaghano | soupsoup | wearethedigitalkids
here’s a shout to all the awesome Twincy tumblrs out there.
“The first group of young men is thought to have left Minneapolis in 2007. Other...”
– FBI To Unveil Details Of Missing Somalis Terror Case
this is the most important story in Twincy right now.
Sextortion at Eisenhower High →
givemesomethingtoread:
Last year, an awkward high school senior in Wisconsin went online, passed himself off as a flirtatious female student, and conned dozens of his male classmates into e-mailing him sexually explicit images of themselves. What he did next will likely send him to jail for a very long time
“Well, I have worked with a lot of designers in my day and I am of the opinion...”
– Clients From Hell | marrina
This site really, really speaks to me
Social media, search engines, PageShare
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This is a really big deal, and will be a huge topic at interactive marketing meetings towards the end of 2010.
Can you tell the difference between Sarah Palin’s...
Take the DailyBeast quiz.
1. A. I was better at basketball, but thought soccer was more fun. B. My friends and I lived for basketball, and at the beginning of my senior year, we counted down the days until the season began.
2. A. I am the first to say, “Buck up or stay in the truck.” B. “I’ll be camping out in a truck, and sleeping standing up.”
This thing is unreal. More Qs and the As.
Thoughts from #tfon
That’s a pic from Chuckumentary at today’s MPR conference entitled “The Future of News”, which I watched on the conference livestream and attended during the afternoon.
The panels were stocked with the biggest names of the Twin Cities major media — MPR, STrib, KARE — so as you can imagine, the majority of time was spent talking about the notable moments of...
Data sets, social media, and the news
Malcolm Gladwell recently said that if he were trying to break into journalism today, he would stat by getting a master’s degree in statistics. The Hardvard psychologist Steven Pinker, who revieces Gladwell’s “What the Dog Saw” on this week’s cover, might second this advice.
~ the Editor’s note at the front of this week’s NYTimes book review
Just a...
Poll: Most Minnesotans would not vote Pawlenty for... →
bringmethenews
Hey tumblr folks - and other folks, too, I guess - Tom put our RSS feed into a tumblog so you can follow bmtn on tumblr, and if you want to share a link, reblog with ease and efficiency.