Tim Murtaugh's Excuse for a Blog
“One issue of T Magazine … pays for an entire NYT European bureau.
Matthew Yglesias
(July 18, 2008) - The Business
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(July 18, 2008) - The Business
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“I think that magazines are about nurturing a community … But if you tell people in the publishing industry that they’re really in the community business, they’ll say “shut up, hippy” and go back to monetizing their audience metrics.
POD Opens Door to Magazine Experiments and Customization - Tools of Change for Publishing
Hang in there McCain...
His campaign is being managed so poorly, and the candidate is presenting himself so badly, that both Daily Kos and Keith Olbermann have publicly speculated whether McCain is going to make it to the republican convention or not.
Hang in there John boy. We can’t have you replaced with a decent candidate, there’s too much at stake.
“The New Left [of the 1960s] occupied universities to protest against the bureaucratic hollowness of examination rituals and grading rationales. Now its children complete the attack on the authority of teachers, who are simply annexed to the management of student careers, drawn into a tacit agreement between corporation and client in which failure is not an option.
Times Higher Education - All the privileged must have prizes
How to Walk in New York: The Unwritten Rules
On a New York sidewalk, there are two kinds of walkers: those who walk faster than the flow of traffic and those who don’t.
Rule 1. If you’re a fast walker, watch where you’re going. It’s up to you not to bump into anyone.
Rule 2. If you’re a slow walker, walk a predictable line. Meandering across the sidewalk will get you either hit from behind, or cursed silently.
Trap-Jaw Ants (via fransvandam1978)
Report: 81.5 percent of all e-mails sent in June were spam
Seriously — what’s the argument against charging internet users a fraction of a cent to send an email? That would knock down spam numbers in a big way.
“I don’t understand the problem. You take good pictures of hamburgers and then you crop the hell out of them.
I Was a Mad Man — Design Observer