November 2011
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New doodads and hoohahs at Nieman Lab →
A few new things in the sidebars of Nieman Lab article pages — a zen mode that whisks you away to Fake Instapaper Land, and a floating, faded-until-hover next-article teaser floaty thing.
Nov 29th
“Where he was once highlight reel and championship celebration, he was now...”
– Smart Jay Caspian Kang piece at Grantland on how player marketability in an age of Twitter impacts labor relations in the NFL and NBA.
Nov 28th
“How on earth can abundance damage anything for anyone, unless what’s damaged is...”
– Jonathan Lethem on the joys of overproduction in “Rushmore Versus Abundance,” in The Ecstasy of Influence, reviewed by Robert Christgau in the NYT.
Nov 28th
WatchWatch
Trailer for “Ages and Stages,” a doc about The Meligrove Band, a totally underrated Toronto band. In some alternative universe, Planets Conspire is a classical album.
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February 2011
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January 2011
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Cultural Common Ground Gets Harder To Come By :... →
Another in the unending series of pieces on how we have no shared culture any more because we don’t all watch “The Cosby Show” on Thursday nights. Seriously: What makes us laugh on TV isn’t as broad-based as it once was. At its peak in the mid-1980s, The Cosby Show had 30 million viewers. Today’s top-rated sitcom, Two and a Half Men, gets more like 15 million. Since...
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Former LA Gov. Edwin Edwards released from prison... →
Free Edwin! The Cajun Prince rides (semi-)free again!
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Jan 11th
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“Un ex empleado de WikiLeaks amenaza con crear un portal rival y resta por verse...”
– Me in Spanish! ¿La primera guerra cibernética?, Diario El Día, La Plata, Argentina
Jan 11th
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Superheated Rhetoric in the Social Media World |... →
Me on the radio a few minutes ago. (Audio to come at that link.)
Jan 11th
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Pitchfork: Album Reviews: The Dismemberment Plan:... →
This came out in 1999, but to me, Emergency & I is all about summer 2000: leaving my first job, moving to Dallas, driving around town in a rental car looking for an apartment and putting “Memory Machine” on repeat. Travis Morrison was my hero. Thrilled to be seeing them again in a couple weeks, and happy this got a 10.0.
Jan 11th
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“Coupland, who has written at length on and for the Internet, does not belabor...”
– NYT’s David Carr, reviewing Douglas Coupland’s new bio of Marshall McLuhan. “For the Internet” sounds like it’s a machine to be fed, no?
Jan 10th