Marissa Mayer on Yahoo’s 20-Year Love Affair With The Color Purple | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Once upon a time, circa 1995, Yahoo cofounders Jerry Yang and David Filo were setting up the company’s first office. It was a pretty drab place, so they decided to redo the walls. Filo headed out to pick up some paint. A notoriously thrifty type—his official title is “Chief Yahoo,” but his colleagues have been…

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Blaspheming BuzzFeed – The Baffler

BuzzFeed isn’t just for listicles anymore, and whoever says otherwise is regurgitating outdated folk wisdom. Or, at least, that’s the prevailing meme ping-ponging around media circles (read: people I follow on Twitter). It’s true, BuzzFeed has changed. The company has displayed the kind of hockey-stick growth that tempted investors to cut checks for $50 million…

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Vox experimented with a new format for its daily email and the audience really hated it » Nieman Journalism Lab

Vox Sentences is Vox’s evening email newsletter, designed to be a wrapup of the day’s top news — we wrote about it back in October when it entered the ever-crowding arena of news-roundup emails. Vox Sentences’ major differentiators are its timing (evening rather than morning) and its format — a series of scannable one-sentence bullet points with links….

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