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theinternetaccordingtoadrian: ronworkman: Recognize bitches…

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:01:40 -0800

theinternetaccordingtoadrian:

ronworkman:

Recognize bitches…

Holy crap this is weird. Weird awesome! (via undefeated)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:43:22 -0800

Holy crap this is weird. Weird awesome! (via undefeated)

The Blizzard Man warrants re-posting!

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:38:38 -0800

The Blizzard Man warrants re-posting!

Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:55:50 -0800

Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey:

I really don’t know why people think his work is interesting to begin with….

Wow. Um, wow. newsweek: brooklynmutt: YEAAAAH...

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:31:58 -0800

Wow. Um, wow.

newsweek:

brooklynmutt:

YEAAAAH BOOOOOYYYY

Ha.

"As she prepared her daughter for college, Anne Sweeney insisted that a television be among the dorm..."

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:22:10 -0800

“As she prepared her daughter for college, Anne Sweeney insisted that a television be among the dorm room accessories. “Mom, you don’t understand. I don’t need it,” her 19-year-old responded, saying she could watch whatever she wanted on her computer, at no charge. That flustered Ms. Sweeney, who happens to be the president of the Disney-ABC Television Group. “You’re going to have a television if I have to nail it to your wall,” she told her daughter, according to comments she made at a Reuters event this week. “You have to have one.””

- Web-TV Divide Is Back in Focus With NBC Sale - NYTimes.com

The headline on this article might as well be “more proof that media executives are out of touch and overpaid.” My wife’s 20 year old cousins have never even heard of 90% of the TV shows I watch.

Ms. Sweeney missed an opportunity to learn something from her daughter: the networks are not entitled to their audiences.

415. The pleats on a cummerbund face up.

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:36:57 -0800

That’s why my brother calls it a “crumb-er-bund” so he can remember

(via rulesformyunbornson)

Dear 24/7 Wall St.: We'll Dance on Your Graves. Sincerely, Newsweek

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:27:17 -0800

Dear 24/7 Wall St.: We'll Dance on Your Graves. Sincerely, Newsweek:

I love the new Newsweek. I hadn’t read a Newsweek for years until recently — and now I buy it at the newsstand every time I see it. I’m probably going to add it to my subscriptions (along with *cough* The Economist *cough*).

newsweek:

kateoplis:

(via newsweek)

OK, that’s cute. But are you actually going to refute the seven facts presented for your demise?

Sure!

FACTS ONE and TWO: “The magazine already has slashed its rate base (circulation guaranteed to advertisers) from 3.1 million to 2.5 million. It has announced further cuts that will take this figure to 1.5 million early next year.”

COMMENT: True. This, as Newsweek has said many times, is a conscious calculation to stop spending so much to maintain a high and unprofitable rate base, and concentrate on serving our core audience, who continue to support us.

THREE, FOUR, FIVE: “The New York Times reported that Newsweek’s advertising fell 29.9% through the first three quarters of 2009. According to the 10-Q for The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO), Newsweek ad revenue plunged 47% in the third quarter from the year before. The magazine has lost almost $30 million so far this year.”

COMMENT: True. And not unique to Newsweek; according to MPA, the average magazine experienced a 27.2% decline in the first three quarters of this year. And, you know, when your revenue drops that much, well, you’re going to lose some money. Also, remember that 2008 was an election year, typically a good time for magazines like Newsweek; newsmagazines, and news Websites, typically do better on newsstand and Web traffic (and draw more advertising) in big news years.

NEXT: “Newsweek had hoped to transform itself into a poor man’s version of the Economist and has largely dropped covering breaking news and reviews of the big stories of the week. The change in the editorial direction of Newsweek may have been the right thing to do, but it came much too late. Newsweek, like many other print products, hopes to rely on internet readership and advertising to improve its fortunes.”

COMMENT: These don’t sound like facts so much, and it’s a pretty lazy criticism to say “you guys should have been much smarter than everyone else a long time ago.” The fact is, we set out to make changes to our company before the recession hit, and we’re seeing a good response.

SIX: “Audience measurement firm Compete indicates that the audience of Newsweek.com has dropped 15% in the last year to 1.3 million unique visitors a month in October. Audience research firm comScore shows an even sharper decline. That is, by itself, an important indication that the public has not been attracted to the “new” Newsweek. “

COMMENT: Again, remember that 2008 was one of the biggest news years in a very long time. So we’re not sure we agree with the assessment that this is an indictment of the “new” Newsweek.

SEVEN: “The Washington Post has enough trouble with fixing problems at its flagship paper. Its online news and commentary magazine, Slate.com, had more than 3.8 million visitors in October. Slate has none of the legacy print costs of Newsweek.”

COMMENT: True. We’ll late Slate’s editor, Jacob Weisberg, have the last word: “They said NYTimes would vanish in 2009. Dumb”

Photo

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:47:10 -0800

"The idea here is not that the “ends justify the means” but that you are trying to achieve an outcome..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:48:10 -0800

“The idea here is not that the “ends justify the means” but that you are trying to achieve an outcome rather than win a debate. Insisting on a point no matter how convinced one may be about its correctness is usually not an effective way of getting people to do something. In fact it’s a no-win proposition. If you turn out to have been right, the other person will feel bad about “having been told” (even if you can supress any display of “I told you so”). If you turn out to be wrong, you look like an idiot.”

- Being Right Vs Being Effective - Continuations

I learned this (by example) from my friend Mike Phillips at Citysearch.

"While fast-growing companies have long been the main source of new jobs and innovation, this country..."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:38:37 -0800

“

While fast-growing companies have long been the main source of new jobs and innovation, this country makes it outrageously difficult for immigrants to launch new companies here. This doesn’t make any sense. After all, Google, Pfizer, Intel, Yahoo, DuPont, eBay and Procter & Gamble are all former start-ups founded by immigrants. Where would this country be today without their world-changing innovations?

Immigrants have not only founded big, well-known companies. Foreign-born residents made up just 12.5% of the U.S. population in 2008. But nearly 40% of technology company founders and 52% of founders of companies in Silicon Valley.

Yet we don’t seem to care. We send recent, foreign-born university science and engineering graduates back to their own countries after their student visas expire—unless these creative sorts are willing to spend some of the most entrepreneurial years of their lives working in a big company under an H-1B visa after they finish their studies.

”

- Paul Kedrosky and Brad Feld: Start-up Visas Can Jump-Start the Economy - WSJ.com (via fred-wilson)

Yahoo’s “Project Rushmore” Begins With Massive Facebook Connect Deployment Across Internet Giant

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:19:40 -0800

Yahoo’s “Project Rushmore” Begins With Massive Facebook Connect Deployment Across Internet Giant:

This is a win for Yahoo’s users. And Yahoo’s relevance.

Something is wrong with CNN’s priorities.

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:18:05 -0800

Something is wrong with CNN’s priorities.

This is, indeed, awesome. grapesmc: Holy shit someone made the...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:22:09 -0800

This is, indeed, awesome.

grapesmc:

Holy shit someone made the old Buck Rogers series look awesome!

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/12/sci-fi-tv-reboots/

grapesmc: Awesome photos!

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:10:32 -0800

grapesmc:

Awesome photos!

What If Steve Jobs Hadn’t Returned To Apple In 1997?

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:39:27 -0800

What If Steve Jobs Hadn’t Returned To Apple In 1997?:

Great read from @arrington

Iverson: D.B. of the century in my book

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:11:36 -0800

Iverson: D.B. of the century in my book

hiten: ianmain: thedailywhat: Life-Altering Revision To An...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:23:42 -0800

hiten:

ianmain:

thedailywhat:

Life-Altering Revision To An Existing Device of the Day: Damjan Stanković’s Eko Stoplight has a built-in timer that tells you exactly how long you have until the light turns green.

Yet another one of those specks of brilliance that make you go, What possible reason could there be for this to have taken so long to come into existence.

[via.]

Notre Dame fires Charlie Weis

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:22:07 -0800

Notre Dame fires Charlie Weis:

I was hoping they would keep him. I love winning this game every year.

dinosaurz:

Lesson: Don’t make emotional signings for idiotically long 10 year contracts.

This is super cool. iomegadrive: Which Chart Should You...

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:12:08 -0800

This is super cool.

iomegadrive:

Which Chart Should You Use?

via i.imgur.com