July 2011
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“Anyone interested in an online marketing gig? My team has everything from entry...”
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MIA’s “tribute” to Amy...
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“The Egyptian people have proven time and again that they are leading digital...”
– From “The Revolution is Not a Branding Opportunity”
Via OWNI
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A Note About Amy Winehouse
ladysugatits:
modernandmaterialthings replied to your post: I went to Myspace to find this blog posting.
This world is hard enough on people but its especially hard on women. You’re right she needed a friend, but mostly I think she needed to believe she deserved redemption. I’m tired of talented women dying because they’re being torn down constantly.
The above is all I can say about Amy...
The Decline and Fall of Facebook - Cringely on... →
stoweboyd:
Cringely heard a talk by Roger McNamee in which McNamee cites the now-conventional tech viewpoint: Facebook has won.
Again, I’m not saying he’s wrong, but what I took away from this speech was first an image of Microsoft as the Roman Colosseum being mined for marble after the barbarian invasion, and second a sense that while Facebook is certainly a huge social, cultural, and...
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Personal Rant of the Day
I’m over Chicagoans who act like impatient New Yorkers on the CTA. This is the Midwest. Get over it.
Sure it’s hot out but it’s not an excuse to act like an ass(hole). Also, enough with the big backpacks that take up the space of three people. Move that shit or get a smaller bag.
Rant over.
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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Human... →
This is as interesting to read as it is well-designed. It’s beautifully laid out. Note: Link points to a PDF.
Gary Small and colleagues carried out a novel study of how the brains of middle-aged and older participants respond when using an internet search engine. Compared with reading text, they found that internet searching increased activation in several regions of the brain, but only...
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The Golden Filter's "Hardest Button to Button... →
This is the best cover of this song I have ever heard. It’s just sick.
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A (Short-ish) Note About Music and Dating
Sometime ago I read one of Ryan O’Connell’s “How to Be…” pieces in Thought Catalog about the dating habits of 20 somethings. Buried in the caustic, somewhat self-effacing essay, he noted that music for some inexplicable reason matters a great deal in dating. A person’s taste in music can be a dealbreaker, a central reason that romance between two people ends or...
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“Women Are 85% Of The Consumer Market. But How Do You Reach Them?
“Approach...”
– How about like rational beings who carry checkbooks and want to make smart decisions about what they will or will not buy? When I am grocery shopping and thinking about what kind of soy milk I want, I feel very much like a wild cheetah on the plains of the Serengeti. A wild cheetah in a David Foster...
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“What you gon’ do with all that ass/ All that ass inside them jeans? … What...”
– From “A Song So Awful it Hurts”
This made my morning. Thanks to Fotzepolitic for sending me down the Black Eyed Peas tunnel!
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“The branding of the self existed long before the Internet and continues to exist...”
– From Facebook Narcissism.
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Is Shame Necessary? →
We can use computers to simulate some of the intimacy of tribal life, but we need humans to evoke the shame that leads to cooperation. The emergence of new tools— language, writing, the Internet—cannot completely replace the eyes. Face-to-face interactions, such as those outside Trader Joe’s stores, are still the most impressive form of dissent.
Read this immediately. It’s absolutely...
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“I was ticked off at Todd yesterday,” she said. “He walks into a gas station as...”
– From Sarah “Truth to Power” Palin
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“Most of narcissism’s critics, however, do not evince much concern for its...”
– From Nitsuh Abebe’s “We Must Be Superstars”
Via NY Mag
Such a Pretentious dig, but I Still Laughed at the Snooki comment.
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Watch“New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted ads in Users’ Ears”
Via The Onion
This is all kinds of hilarious, but perhaps I’m biased because I work in search marketing. I love the “There’s a Dunkin’ Donuts in .6 miles. Let’s go. C’mon, let’s go to Dunkin Donuts” line. The 911 bit is funny too.
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Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music →
An amazing (web-based) history of electronic music.
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“The agency of humans, as they interact with, as, and within technologies, is...”
– From “Structured Agency: Facebook and Google+”
To be honest, the thought of migrating over my social network to another platform exhausts me. But I readily admit that my general feelings about Facebook amount to little more than the platform serving as ‘pimped out’ email....
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Re: Netflix
I’m almost 99% sure that my Netflix queue is more aspirational than anything else. It’s a gesture toward the heady, cultured film viewer I wish to be than the consumer I am. What’s that Christina? You don’t want to watch Goddard’s Notre Musique for a third time? Shut up. Wait, what? You want to watch crappy horror movies from Netflix Instant instead? Oh girl…
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