June 2011
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A Massive Solar Flare Of Activity Pushes Tumblr To... →
soupsoup:
It turns out, there was a bit of a bug in Tumblr’s data previously — one that led Quantcast to undercount pageview data. ”Last week we noticed a growing discrepancy between our Google Analytics and Quantcast numbers. It turns out that we broke our Quantcast tracking code a few weeks ago and were no longer reporting any impressions past page one of the Dashboard. We fixed it and...
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The Kooks - The Sabatour
I <3 The Kooks, so...
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“History is just one damned thing after another.”
– Winston Churchill (attributed to him among others)
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Professional Video Editors Weigh In on Final Cut... →
shaneguiter:
The Bottom Line: Apple has followed the typical Apple sequence: (1) throw out something that’s popular and comfortable but increasingly ancient, (2) replace it with something that’s slick and modern and forward-looking and incomplete, (3) spend another year finishing it up, restoring missing pieces.
Professional editors should (1) learn to tell what’s really missing from what’s...
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Audio: The Weeknd - Trust Issues
some nice canada music - with swears, though.
The Weeknd version of the Drake song that sounded a lot like The Weeknd in the first place.
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10 brands that won't be around in 2012 →
Someone’s TOTALLY MEAN! MEANIES!
24/7 Wall St. has created a new list of brands that will disappear, which includes Sears, Sony Pictures, American Apparel, Nokia, Saab, A&W All-American Foods Restaurants, Soap Opera Digest, Sony Ericsson, MySpace, and Kellog’s Corn Pops.
Each year, 24/7 Wall St. regularly compiles a list of brands that are going to disappear in the near-term. Last...
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WatchLOVE>
tangentsandthe:
TANGENTS & THE TIMES: EPISODE ONE. “MARISSA MAKES A DECISION” Over a clandestine liquid brunch, Marissa confides in her BFF Alexis that she plans on trying to take her career seriously by moving to New York to start anew — which goes over poorly. Then, Marissa’s ex shows up.
Breaking: LulzSec leaks Arizona law enforcement... →
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second most arrogant email ever →
This is an email sent from a BMW intern to his former employer, the local pool. Amazeballs. (aka what a douche)
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“shit, son. is it too late to take that pic of me + beer bong from 1998 down?”
– Sarah Slobin, Graphics Editor, Wall Street Journal. The Future of Infographics. (via futurejournalismproject)
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oh. my. god.
Bon Iver - I Can’t Make You...
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The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In... →
downlo:
A sampling:
13. Gore Vidal on Truman Capote
“He’s a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.”
9. Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac
“That’s not writing, that’s typing.”
15. William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
14. Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really...
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launching a website
has been the most humbling experience of my life.
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The Frenemy.: Signs I Like You →
thefrenemy:
I mean, I wouldn’t go Vanessa Carlton on your ass and walk 1,000 miles, which is a total crock of shit because that bitch was parked on her little piano that whole music video. But if I were wearing good shoes that didn’t give me blisters, and my I-Pod was fully charged, and I could maybe get a…
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Watch(Had to take video down because it annoyingly auto-played !)
An interesting web series by Vice Style - in this episode, Diane Pernet. I met her in London last year when I was managing the Young Creative Entrepreneur Fashion award. She was one of our judges.
(I don’t think Not Just a Label gets 16m uniques a month, though!)
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4 ways content management systems are evolving &... →
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Top 100 words and phrases to avoid →
soupsoup:
via nevver
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“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what...”
– Douglas Adams. (via howlingforever)
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Mathew Ingram : What Media Companies Need To Learn From Startups
In a recent blog post, Activate Media partner and Expert Labs founder Anil Dash has some advice for media companies that boils down to: disrupt yourselves before others disrupt you. For some mainstream players, it may already be too late.
Dash says he put his presentation together to try and help the media companies...
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via bookmania) 