January 2009
27 posts
“I also enjoyed the fact that he had no real reason for doing something so...”
– Jared Hutchings on Man on Wire
“Don’t blame the industry. Blame your boss.”
– Twitter / mediaisthriving
“I also think that a LOT of internet people have no concept of just how much...”
– Rick Webb
adamvarga:
http://twitpic.com/18ggh - just synced up Musebin reviews to my GMail Web Clips bar… and so can you
“People are often successful not despite their dysfunctions but because of them....”
– Peter Bregman (via entrepreneurwisdom)
“As I said in my last post about Shorty Awards I began the nominated process with...”
– Verba @ McAWilliams.com
“Our government’s current operating principle seems to be bailing out...”
– Dan Gillmor
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Cool Musebin integration
8tracks:
We integrated with fellow NYC-based music startup Musebin a couple of weeks ago. Musebin allows people write short album reviews (140 characters or less, of course : ) ) that can be posted to one’s followers on Twitter.
If you register on Musebin, go to your Settings > Sidebar settings, and select the 8tracks “related mixes” widget from the top dropdown. Then, as you browse...
“If you have or are getting a Facebook page, leave blank the section that asks...”
– Poynter Online - New York Times’ Policy on Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites
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“A hazard of social networking is people will read what you write.”
– A Fedex employee who’s offended by a remark made on Twitter by an exec from their agency
“I followed Rove. The next day, he followed me back…and I liked it.”
– Rachel Sklar
“Musebin is another proof for the theory that brief doesn’t have to mean bad....”
– ‘Nibby’ blogs transmit basic information, nice and tersely | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog
africanheroes:
Ukoo Flani Maumau, from Kenya, in...
“Sounds like: naked electric people jumping around the wilderness, wildly...”
– Pullscraps’ Musebin review of Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
“Expected musebin to consist of ‘suckz!’ or ‘u rock!’ but...”
– Chris McCarley
“Food fans who don’t already follow any so-called tweets (Twitter text-only...”
– The Epi-Log on Epicurious.com: The Shorty Awards, Twitter, and You
“Companies who can build authentic, honest, open, collaborative relationships...”
– Umair Haque
“I was trying to write serious short stories. But people would tell me they were...”
– John Hodgman
“Why didn’t Hank Paulson think of that?”
– Stephen Moore in ‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years - WSJ.com
“Now, thanks to the just-launched, Twitter-ific review site Musebin, the days of...”
– MTV News
“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in...”
– Judge Gideon J. Tucker
“This is amazingly pretentious. I love it.”
– Reddit user on Musebin
Musebin's 140-Character Reviews Go Live, Power... →
“Created to protect investors from financial predators, the [SEC] has somehow...”
– Michael Lewis and David Einhorn