November 2011
4 posts
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.
“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.
“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.
WatchTrailer 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.