May 2010
45 posts
youngmanhattanite:
The thing about those debilitating “I’ll never drink again” hangovers that take a full 24 hours to recover is the day after the day after you feel so on top of the world again that you want to celebrate with a drink.
And there I was last night, cradling another scotch and soda in my hands, sing-songingly thinking, “You couldn’t get me.”
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I think it’s a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better...
– Martin Amis
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Actually, plenty of business is like show business.
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List of fictional dinosaurs →
(via david)
Dinosaurs only read books when they feel like it. Rarararar, they read carefully, until their eyes grow heavy and they fall asleep.
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Why Twitter looks like a social network but feels... →
soupsoup:
Twitter isn’t a social network, but something more akin to traditional news media.
Why isn’t Twitter a social network? The researchers noted that Twitter relationships don’t have to be reciprocal — there’s no need to follow someone back who is following you, while Facebook relationships are two-way “friendships.” (Though that’s changing with the capability to “like” something.) Only...
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"You have to let it die."
"I'm -going- to let it die."
"Good. Let it die."
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Working in social media means your blog is not a big secret, which is pretty...
– (via Losing Weight in the City)
Wasn’t it obvious when one played with the WSJ and Time apps that the apps were...
– Nick Denton (via soupsoup)
Wow. That Brand-Advertising Stuff Really Does Work
newsweek:
The other day we were sitting around the office, wondering idly how BP, the company that always seemed so responsible and environmentally friendly, could find itself in this situation; we started to look into doing a story on the company’s branding efforts.
But, it turns out, there was no need! FP beat us to it, with this nice piece. Excerpts:
A decade ago, the company then known...
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