May 2008
52 posts
Rachael Ray may be a terrorist, but it has... →
gordonramsay: People are overreacting. To the scarf, not Rachael Ray. It seems Dunkin Donuts pulled an ad that featured Rachael Ray donning a scarf that resembled a keffiyeh, a certain type of headdress that…
Behind the Grammar →
Mignon Fogarty, the voice of the popular Grammar Girl podcast, just started blogging about business. Having worked with her I can say she’s got one of the best attitudes in the podcast business about creating content, encouraging new talent, and making a living doing it. Subscribed!
caro: The verb “curate” is gradually climbing its way up into the upper ranks of my Big List of Overused Industry Terms That Should Die. Amen! “Monetization” is at the top of my list. What happened to “making money”?
“It’s a community that’s so inbred it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.”
– Barry Diller taking about Hollywood (via rickyv)
“But the truth is George and I do have a funny relationship. He propagated rumors...”
– John McCain on News Groper (via streamrunningover)
Not Jared Neumark
So Adam (News Groper’s COO) set up a Twitter account on behalf of Jared Neumark (News Groper’s editor who has never used Twitter) without his knowledge or consent. Once Jared found out, he filled out Twitter’s complaint form jokingly. Here’s the result: From: Twitter Support support@twitter.com> Date: May 28, 2008 11:27:16 PM EDT To: futurejared@newsgroper.com...
“I’m dissatisfied with every record the Beatles ever fucking made. There ain’t...”
– John Lennon, Playboy Interview, 1980 (via mikehudack)
Still here.
alexbalk living the good life: Every morning I rise before dawn, stumbled bleary-eyed to the shower, get dressed, take my “vitamins,” ride a shockingly overcrowded train up to Grand Central (it’s 6:30, where the hell are all you people coming from?), walk over to the office, smoke a couple of cigarettes under the scaffolding while trying to read the Times, lumber into the elevator, open the...
“Content just isn’t enough and readers prefer to get their news online from...”
– John Byrne
Blogging Stuff Is So Quaint →
(via johncarney)
“I’ve always wanted to blog as Jesus and make everyone feel guilty about...”
– A News Groper writer
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“Every ounce of our being wishes this Gordon Ramsay rant was real.”
– Eater on Ramsay’s “Fuck L.A. and fuck their cupcakes”
“You traitorous bastard. So that’s how it is. We Southerners take you in,...”
– My friend Patrick’s reaction to me giving up my Atlanta area code cell phone number (that I got during my college and CNN.com days) for a NYC area code
“Are we content? I suppose we could ask the psychiatrists and counselors we...”
– Susan Brown (via Jeff Cornwall)
“Busy is worn as badge of honour. There is a degree of smugness accompanying the...”
– do you speak-a my language blog. (via jessicalouise) What if people instead said “I’m not delegating enough”, “I’ve taken on more than I can handle” or “I’m really bad at time management”? I’ve found some of the most successful people...
“We’re on a mission from God.”
– The Blues Brothers
“The Spitting Image parodies reached a status not unlike that of Mad magazine in...”
– The Museum of Broadcast Communications
“Nope but I saw a commercial for it on NBC last night while flipping past SNL and...”
– Avi Schwartz on Baglefuls ads
“If you’ve given up on life, be sure to try one of these delicious...”
– Ben Popken
Yogurtland (5/5) on Yelp.com →
The West Village has suffered a devastating lack of good ice cream and frozen yogurt. Great places like Mary’s Dairy have closed up, Carvels are nowhere to be found, and instead we’re infected with…
African Heroes: stories of brave badasses →
I just helped my friend Emily Meehan set up a tumblr blog. She’s a former WSJ reporter who’s now an independent journalist in Africa. Read it, and if you have a couple extra bucks, donate to her cause.
“Books can now be left to big thoughts instead of drawn-out ideas that are really...”
– Joel Stein
“I love Tumblr, it’s like cheating on your blog.”
– Paul Scheer
“If you were a firm looking to enter the market for video rental in the late...”
– Going Private