Why We Title Things The Way We Do – YouTube
“The internet is full of shit and that’s making us all stupid.” via Why We Title Things The Way We Do – YouTube.
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Today Stocks Were Way Up Because the Stock Market Is Pure Fantasy
After the biggest drop since the Great Recession on Monday, U.S. stocks today posted their biggest gain in four years, because the stock market is driven mainly by bullshit. http://gawker.com/is-the-stock-m… What happened between Monday morning—when investors around the world were selling stocks as fast as possible—and today, when investors around the world were buying so…
Harrisburg mayor hopes to dissolve National Civil War Museum – Washington Times
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse said the city’s National Civil War Museum is “a monument to corruption” that should be shut down in the wake of a long list of criminal charges filed against the former mayor who was the moving force behind it. But the board chairman of the nonprofit that…
The New York Times sells out artists: Shallow data paints a too-rosy picture of “thriving” creative class in the digital age – Salon.com
Musicians, writers, and other creative folk are still scratching their heads over the cover story in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine: “The New Making It” — packaged online as “The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t” — looked at how the Internet economy, instead of destroying creative careers, had redrawn them in “complicated and unexpected ways.” The story’s…
The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t – The New York Times
On July 11, 2000, in one of the more unlikely moments in the history of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Orrin Hatch handed the microphone to Metallica’s drummer, Lars Ulrich, to hear his thoughts on art in the age of digital reproduction. Ulrich’s primary concern was a new online service called Napster, which had debuted…
Archive Corps, A Volunteer Collective To Help Quickly Save Physical Archives Before They Are Lost
After rescuing over 50,000 manuals from destruction in a Maryland warehouse with a lot of help from volunteers, some of whom responded to a call on Twitter, the tenacious Jason Scott, filmmaker, archiver and good friend of Laughing Squid, has announced his new project Archive Corps, a volunteer collective that helps quickly save physical archives…
Mobile Readers Abound; the Ads, Not So Much – CMO Today – WSJ
article start Traditional and online publishers are struggling to cash in on their surging mobile traffic, raising questions about their future growth as consumers increasingly turn to smartphones and tablets for media. News and information outlets ranging from the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to Business Insider and About.com all can point…
The Trucks Are Killing Us – The New York Times
Photo Credit Harry Campbell ACCIDENTS like the one that critically injured the comedian Tracy Morgan, killed his friend and fellow comedian James McNair, known as Jimmy Mack, and hurt eight others on the New Jersey Turnpike last year are going to continue to happen unless Congress stops coddling the trucking industry. More people will be…
Work Hard, Live Well — Medium
Last week, I spoke to an ambitious group of high school students at SPARC in Berkeley. Several of them asked me about things I wish I had done or learned earlier in life, or regrets I had from earlier in my career. Again and again, I came back to the idea that I wish I…
The ethics of modern web ad-blocking – Marco.org
More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness, web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads. People hated pop-up ads. We tolerated in-page banners as an acceptable cost of browsing free websites, but pop-ups were over the line: they were too annoying and intrusive. Many website publishers claimed helplessness in…