August 2009
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How ingrateful can you be when you're signed to a...
This is a draft essay to be published on Tunebinder.com.au.
“People will always say nasty things. But you don’t stop making music because some people don’t like you,” says Charlie Thorpe, 19, aka Dash. “You don’t Google yourself unless you’re ready to read horrible things about yourself.”
A Dash Of Pop - Nui Te Koha, Page 8, Play supplement,...
Is "Good Enough" the Future of... →
himitsu writes “In an article titled ‘The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine,’ Wired claims that the future of technology, warfare and medicine will be filled with ‘good…
Hotel With Glass Windows Overlooking A Park... →
The High Line in NYC is a former railroad line that has been converted into a park, but visitors are getting a little more of a view than they bargained for. The Standard Hotel overlooks…
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Microsoft Poland Demonstrates Hilariously Bad... →
Apparently, some geniuses at Microsoft decided that an Asian man, a black guy, and a white woman wasn’t the best way to sell Microsoft’s Business Productivity tools in Poland. So they swapped…
Twitter: A Sad Replacement for Your Aging Social... →
Young people are indifferent to Twitter, a hot topic the New York Times is mulling today. But no one’s really figured out why. Our theory: Young people have lives, and Twitter is for…
The Internet is about to change →
The internet has been dead and boring for a while now. It has reached a point of stability where flashes of technological creativity are rare, but every now and then some new technology can…
Now You Too Can Dress Like a TV Newsperson [As... →
Looking for pants “custom made for a primary anchor in a top 5 market”? Or how about a sports suit worn on air “by a play-by-play announcer for a regional sports network”? Look no further. …
Broke Consumers Are Filling Up Carts And Leaving... →
This is a depressing phenomenon, if it’s real. According to the Associated Press, consumers are ditching items before they buy them. They’ve always done this, of course, but now they are…
“Skanks in NYC” blogger Rosemary Port now suing…... →
… for $15m. Seriously.
Port, 27, is displeased at being outed to the press and her accusers as the woman behind the catty “Skanks in NYC” blog, which was hosted on Google’s free Blogger…
Lifestyle to produce local Come Dine with Me →
2009 continues to be the year of food.
The LifeStyle Channel has acquired format rights to UK series Come Dine with Me and commissioned Granada to produce the show for Australia.
The…
America to remake Skins →
Oh no. America is getting its greedy mitts onto Skins.
MTV will create a US version of the show to be set in Baltimore, Maryland (same setting for The Wire).
Co-creator Brian Elsley will…
Selling Potatoes →
As entrepreneurs the natural temptation is on inventing new markets. Creating dramatic change and going for the trophy ideas. This stuff is incredibly difficult, which is why when we do it well…
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Newspapers should not have comments
somethingchanged:
This amazing WSJ article that everyone’s talking about, A Manifesto for Slow Communications, has only three comments - all pretty lame ones. People are discussing it on their blogs, via Twitter, in real life. But the three comments sit there wrongly representing the success of the article, newspaper readers’ engagement, the WSJ’s “digital strategy,” and the importance of reader...
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“I dreamt last night we met at a food expo (whatever that is). You were kind and...”
– The comments on Anthony Bourdain’s Travel Channel blog sure are creepy.
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A Steve Jobs Confession, a Fanboy Shock →
Yes, Steve Jobs is that evil. Silicon Valley spent the past month convincing itself AT&T just absolutely had to be responsible for kicking the useful Google Voice application off…
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Cabela's Gets The Wii Light Gun Just Right →
As distasteful as you may find Cabela’s Big Buck Hunt - or indeed the people who play it - you’ve got admit there’s something shamefully satisfying about the game’s plastic peripherals.
So…
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KFC Has A Bacon Sandwich That Uses Fried Chicken... →
This is perhaps man’s greatest achievement or evidence of our civilization’s impending doom. Maybe it’s both.
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Southwest Customer Exposes Self, Punches Another... →
Here’s an issue you probably didn’t expect to run into on your flight from Oakland to Las Vegas. According to the SF Chronicle, a man exposed himself, then punched a passenger who screamed….
Who to Blame When Your Terrible Movie Flops?... →
Hollywood studios failed to hoodwink the moviegoing public into seeing recent stinkers like G.I. Joe and Brüno. But don’t blame overpaid movie executives. Blame Twitter! The microblogging…
Airplane Perv Punches People, Strips Naked →
New York has its subway flashers; in Oakland, the pervs are airborne. Witness the large fellow just arrested for exposing himself and rampaging through the cabin of a flight bound for Las…
The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t... →
I’ve come to the conclusion that there are four key parts to news stories, and we typically only get one of them, even though journalists possess all four, and the other three are arguably more…
If You Buy A “Kanye Is A Whiny Bitch” Shirt With... →
I mean, I was always taught that whining about whining just added up to a hell of a lot more whine noise out there. But you can feel free to disagree, and you can certainly spend the $25 or so…
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Australia's Dotcom Pioneers - Where Are They Now? →
Janet Street-Porter Calls Stephen Fry Twat. Film... →
Janet Street-Parker, Editor-at-Large for The Independent, has hit out at the popular microblogging platform Twitter calling every person using the 140-character platform Twat in the same…
Waah: Liskula Cohen goes after blogging because... →
And she’s not gonna take that lying down.
Liskula Cohen, a NYC party girl who dabbled in modeling before her face was disfigured in a 2007 attack with a broken bottle, won a ruling to…
Can't Get A Girlfriend? How About A Pillow? [Body... →
Last month, the New York Times Magazine ran a fascinating story by Lisa Katayama about the popularity of body-pillow girlfriends in Japan. Apparently, an unknown fraction of men - a subculture…
Man Tries To Sell Tarted Up Oven Door As $100 HDTV... →
This $100 flat-screen TV this random dude is selling out of his car in a Walmart parking lot is a steal! Specifically, he is stealing your money by substituting a sticker-covered oven door for…
Are we all watching the world’s biggest game of... →
The newspaper world is changing and struggling to find its way online in a fashion that will see the leaders of the conglomerates that own them maintain their wealth and power. Zachary…
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Arlo Guthrie - Coming Into Los Angeles (Live at...
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“The web seems to reward aggregation in a powerful way. Now, that’s what...”
– Bill Wyman on the Five Key Reasons Why Newspapers Are Failing, pt. 2.
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Using and assessing feedback from online... →
Your members are the most valuable asset your online community has. Therefore, it is only natural for you to seek their opinions before any changes are made to the community or the…
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If AP Can't Beat the Google Spammers, It Will Join... →
Ever clicked on some high-ranked Google result, only to land on a useless page of links, obviously created by spam software? Infuriating. Well, prepare to be maddened further; the Associated…
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Grooveshark Launches Subscription VIP Service →
Not to be outdone by recent announcements from streaming music site Spotify, Gainesville-based Grooveshark announced a $3 per month or $30 per year ad-free Grooveshark VIP service.…
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“I am your ‘nerd mate’. Ask me anything ill give friendly advice. pay...”
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A Retrospective of Woodstock Retrospectives →
…the one thing that struck us looking back over the coverage of the original concert was this: Tickets—which no one even paid for anyway—were $15 $18. Jesus.
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Thai Thai →
Shared by Mike Possibly some of the most disgusting food photography I’ve ever seen.
Thai Thai, the extra Thai is to make sure you know what cuisine it is. It’s Thai by the way.
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Database Error Costs Social Security Victims $500M →
Hugh Pickens writes “The Washington Posts reports that the Social Security Administration has agreed to pay more than $500 million in back benefits to more than 80,000 recipients whose benefits were…
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To Michael Wolff - I'm Rubber You're Glue →
I try to find solutions to problems that arent necessarily easy, but that I think are better. Even when people think the thought makes be a big fat idiot. I was a big fat idiot when I got lucky and started HDNet when no one thought HDTVs would be mainstream. When we changed up film windows with Magnolia, 2929 and Landmark Theatres, premiering movies for pay, 3 weeks prior to their theatrical...
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Justin.tv Signs Deal With Fox, Gets Serious About... →
Just as was the case with YouTube before it, the time of illegal content being hosted by a third-party provider is eventually going to disappear in a cloud of smoke. I don’t mind justin.tv’s illegal sports streams as it allows me to watch Sportscenter or Hockey Night in Canada as it airs in it’s motherland which is handy given I cannot watch them on Pay TV (let alone FTA) where I...
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Just fell 50 points on Tumblr. Not taking it well, throwing shit around the office.
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“After (French film director François) Truffaut died, I heard that Jean-Pierre...”
– Molly Ringwald on John Hughes. Just not in the above quote.
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Black Blogger Alliance Hits Talk Show Host Where... →
After Glen Beck called Barack Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people” on a Fox News show, a coalition of black bloggers went after the controversial talk show host…
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EGM/Maxim Subscription Swap Not a Hit with Moms →
Shared by Mike But men play games and men like women, what’s the problem! Twelve year old boys read EGM? Oh…
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Nine News boss: if Twitter fools highly trained... →
Dr Mumbo has to admire the pluck of Nine News boss Mark Calvert for tackling the subject of the network’s premature announcement of actor Jeff Goldblum’s death.
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Guitar Hero 5 Music Studio Impressions: Jamming... →
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“It’s called Nine because that’s how many times a week they show Two And A Half...”
– Awesome headline for a post on mUmBRELLA.