January 2012
34 posts
Hero →
cameronmoll:
This is a really fantastic, well-shot piece. And the resulting portrait definitely wasn’t what I was anticipating.
Amazing.
“Do I want the future of education to be tied to Stanford, Harvard, etc.?...”
– Educational Disintermediation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty (via felixsalmon)
WatchRegarding the Pain of Others - a short animation, narrated by Susan Sontag, on her book of the same name.
Then vs. Now
2010:
2012:
(New foursquare intro video distances them from the check-in - About Foursquare | via @morganmissen)
“I want to live and work in a world where we are actively engaged with our...”
– tashwong: ‘Exploiting Users’ (via garychou)
“We care about what happened,” says Aoun, “We don’t care whether the SAP...”
– Wrong. No one, save maybe a handful of hardcore enterprise software fanatics, read that article because SAP acquired SuccessFactors. We read it because Alexia said it was the most boring acquisition ever.
(News Aggregator Wavii Wants To “Make Facebook Out Of Google,” Bring Relevant Content To You -...
““I wouldn’t even finish my sentence, and they’d say I should be a nonprofit,”...”
– I actually don’t mind quite like most of this article, except for the lede. Not believing in your business as a venture fundable business ≠ gender discrimination.
(Golden ladies of NYC: Female entrepreneurs find funding, community in New York - NY Daily News)
“As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this...”
– President Obama’s statement on the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via barackobama)
“But my greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While...”
– (Barbara Corcoran’s Favorite Mistake: Believing She Was Stupid - The Daily Beast)
“You want a job, a vacation, heath insurance, validation, a back rub, a scalp...”
– The more histrionic parts of this aren’t particularly true, but some of it still, I must say, is. Haha. Oh, Thought Catalog.
(What 20-somethings want - Thought Catalog)
“Someone should make a list of every jackass tech site that took these Color...”
– (Color Hopes You’ll Want to Broadcast Your Makeout Sessions and Illegal Pool Parties to Facebook - Daring Fireball)
John Gruber. Boss.
Research notes: A completely arbitrary list of... →
mattwaite:
Students are told from even before they walk on campus that being a journalist means Being a Good Writer, Being a Good Editor, Being a Good Photographer. No one is telling them they could be an application developer, or a data journalist, or a media entrepreneur. Or if they have heard it, that voice is getting drown out by traditionalists. A disturbing amount of time, the...
Things That Scare Lauren Leto: A Big Mouth →
thingsthatscarelaurenleto:
I realized that these daily exchanges — quips with coworkers, questions from kids, inside jokes with friends — carry with them just as many memories as photographs and videos. And they deserve to be saved.
“To C.K., true success means having to kiss zero asses. 2011 has been his...”
– I summarized, but a quote from the Vanity Fair story on Louis C.K. last month. Very much worth a read if only because you don’t often finish a profile and want to give the subject, very specifically, a high five.
(The man who loves to hate himself - Jonah Weiner)
Midday Latte: Today I'm joining Codecademy as Lead... →
middaylatte:
This beautiful little papercraft NYC was on my desk when I arrived!
Congratulations to the very wonderful Allison House!
Can’t wait to one day build a team as fantastic as this one is shaping up to be — and to see more of Bouncy herself.
:)
“‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are...”
– “Meryl Streep: Force of Nature,” Vogue (via detectivejane)
There are lots of things I like about this, including but not limited to: early American history, a discussion of how history is taught in elementary schools, the role women should play in historical narrative, and, you know, Meryl Streep.
“Piano Bar Partners was founded by a group of friends who would gather annually...”
– About Us | Piano Bar Partners
This is not a spoof.
(via felixsalmon)
*eyes rolling*
Code Year →
parislemon:
Back in October, I wrote about Codecademy, a CrunchFund investment. Love the concept, yadda yadda. Now they have a new initiative called Code Year which is pushing for people to learn to code for their New Years resolution.
When I tweeted about it yesterday, I think it got more retweets than any tweet I’ve ever tweeted before. So there’s clearly some interest.
As such, find the...
“THEY DON’T FAVOR WOMEN
Hard-core feminists might call the FORTUNE Seven queen...”
– From Pattie Sellers’ 1996 FORTUNE piece “Women, Sex, and Power.”
(WOMEN, SEX, AND POWER - Fortune.com)
How quickly things change, and also not. I still wish that more people had this philosophy:
As Jill Barad says, “To get the best person, your approach has to be gender-free.”
December 2011
36 posts
“We’ve got a pretty massive vision for where this goes, but we’re starting out...”
– Matt Galligan, on his new project Circa
(Meet Circa, The Stealthy ‘News Experience’ Startup From Ben Huh And SimpleGeo Founder Matt Galligan - TechCrunch)
So I’m actually pretty ambivalent about this guns-blazing, change-the-world, quintessentially startup-style pitch for a news/journalism...
“For a time in the 1980s, he, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and I lived together in...”
– Neal Pollack, satirizing the Hitchens encomia. (via washingtonpoststyle)
BRYCE DOT VC: A Reluctant Twitter Experiment →
brycedotvc:
It’s not the stuff that everybody else is talking about that gives me any information advantage as an investor or friend. It’s those gems that are tucked under rocks and wrapped in obscurity that tend to be loaded with meaning and insight. It’s stumbling across a conversation between people I follow that I didn’t know knew each other.
“It’s very clear that dropping a blogger into a traditional news organization and...”
– Matt Thompson, director of NPR’s Argo Project
(12 reasons the Argo Project will sail on — and some things NPR learned from the pilot - Nieman Lab)
“Unlimited play potential
For girls and for boys
Fun for every age
Year-round...”
– LEGO’s ten product characteristics, presented to the company by Godfred Kirk Christiansen in 1963.
(About Us - LEGO)
“Perreti insists that the web is a fundamentally different place today than it...”
– The Mystery Team That Recruited Ben Smith to BuzzFeed - Business - The Atlantic Wire (via felixsalmon)
