July 2010
21 posts
The Best Magazine Articles Ever →
“It occurred to me, as I sat there watching an interracial couple banging, that...”
– Michael Hastings – Hack, GQ (October 2008)
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Uniques
All this talk of uniques overtaking page-views as the defining metric for online success has me worried about one thing: alienating readers. If the new edict is simply to get fresh eyeballs onto sensationalist stories, so be it. Originality is a must and it’s the only surefire way to grow readership and increase credibility. But at the same time, the relentless push for uniques has the...
“Rather than train journalists to dismiss their own experiences, what if we...”
– Look at Me! - Maureen Tkacik, Columbia Journalism Review
June 2010
20 posts
“This weekend, msnbc.com launched a sweeping redesign of the most important part...”
– Another Nail in the Pageview Coffin - Mike Industries
24 hours. 1 man, making 1 mixtape. All live... →
“He has no wife, no children, and a job requiring just 20 hours a week. He...”
– Boston Globe piece on the world of online commenters. (via newsweek)
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“Gasoline fuel injection, first pioneered on the 300 SL, will give the internal...”
– From Sports Cars Illustrated’s 1956 review of the Mercedes-Benz 300SL.
“Pat is a passionista, just like Jimmy Toback or John Milius. These are guys who...”
– One of many choice quotes from Evan Wright’s bio of Pat Dollard in Vanity Fair.
WatchRichard Meaden makes an epic save at 1:25. I would’ve embedded EVO’s own video, but their auto-play system is rubbish.
“I don’t want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers… I think we...”
– Never mind that Jobs was speaking at a conference hosted by a technology blog.
May 2010
31 posts
Automakers Grapple with New-Age Dilemma: Software... →
It’s a worthwhile read, despite the author barely skimming the surface of the technology and implementation involved. There’s also a faint whiff of Grandpa Simpson-style bah-humbuggery, which I guess you’d expect from AO.
WatchDownloading the future (or something) now. And it’s taking entirely too long.
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My Instapaper queue is bursting at the seams with Longform.org stories, vintage auto reviews and a random assortment of general interest content that I may never get to. I need a really long flight. Until that happens, here’s an assortment of what’s passed through my eyeholes in the last few hours.
Brain Gain: The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs - Margaret Talbot, The...