September 2010
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“In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing...”
– Some Newspapers Shift Coverage After Tracking Readers Online
August 2010
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“A young lady, rather good looking, and of good address, desires the acquaintance...”
– Classified ad from The New York Herald, 1860.
[via Your Money - Can Smart Money Management Be Sexy? - NYTimes.com]
July 2010
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Nice try, Foster.
April 2010
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Superchunk - “The Mine Has Been Returned To...
February 2010
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TGIF
Speaking of four months ago, what’s the sincerest form of dormancy?
January 2010
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December 2009
47 posts
Why the world is NOT ending in 2012. →
(via shelovesyounot)
Gawker's Least Popular Posts of 2009 →
2. Tentative Settlement Reached in Times vs. Globe Deathmatch — 521 views Remember how the New York Times threatened to sell or shut down the Boston Globe unless the paper’s unions agreed to massive cost-cutting? No, you probably don’t. By the time both sides reached a settlement, few wanted to click on this Cajun Boy post.
TO THE BONE.
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formspring.me
Who are you betting on for Douche of the Decade?
Perhaps it should have gone to Ralph Nader. Hmmm.
Ask me anything
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formspring.me
Is your peddling in celebrity gossip just easy traffic-baiting or do you actually have some kind of philosophical stance for debasing the rest of content?
All your debase are belong to us.
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formspring.me
You know that at times you’re exactly what you mock, right?
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” — Vonnegut
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formspring.me
What is FEK?
the kind of weekend editor most sites can only dream of.
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formspring.me
who runs this tumblr?
would you believe Julia Allison?
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Why is Choire such a little bitch?
He’s not. Here is his backstory, via n+1’s Carla Blumenkranz:
As it happened, Denton replaced Spiers with Choire Sicha, a young art dealer who had written for New York and gay culture sites years before Gawker started. Sicha was from Chicago and had not gone to college; he had lived on his own in San Francisco and New York for about a decade. Sicha...
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formspring.me
The?
An.
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I love you guys,
tanya77:
but the “Formspring question” post are annoying. IMO.
Ask me anything.
Then I died laughing.
TSA Employee: Do you have any areas that are sensitive to the touch?
Me: Well--
nickdouglas:
“The ones that do work well — or in ‘webspeak,’ make you LOL (laugh out loud) — are the personal, less-contrived moments that combine life with unexpected metaphors. From bcompton: ‘The face-painting at the birthday party this morning was subpar. One girl asked for Tiger and got Surprised Basketball instead.’” — Twitter Wit - The China Post
brianvan:
“Who’d have known Wilford Brimley would outlive Brittany Murphy?” -Carolyn
“Death don’t have no mercy in this...
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"Cuteness has been an ever-increasing problem...
alexbalk:
choire
I misread the first word and stared at this for an awfully long time before realizing.
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brianvan:
What exactly does Rex Sorgatz do?
I wish not to answer specifically, I leave that to him. But in the interest of providing fascinating information to the masses: he does have an actual career and it is fascinating stuff. And while we’re here being sincere about Rex: he is such a good sport about all of the remarks about him, provoked or not, that many of you don’t deserve to have him. ...
fimoculous:
Me: You realize that your people stole the whole Hanukkah card idea from us, right? Her: Fuck that, you stole a whole testament!
How to restore (or improve) your Facebook privacy... →
peterfeld:
Super useful (and an extra point to Ryan Tate for reviving the “not afraid to be servicey” franchise).
sheilamcclear:
Matt and I went to Michigan to omg-visit-my-folks, and detoured through Highland Park, where the American Dream died first. It was only minutes before Motown singer Barry Gordy’s nephew drove up next to us and started a conversation, while swigging from something held in his lap. Matt’s resulting article:
“If you want directions to see happened to the American Dream in the age...
doree:
Hee:
Choire: *Gets off soapbox* Tom: Don’t get off your soapbox yet! Choire: I was just making room for you up here!
There’s so much other goodness in this edition of The Shadow Editors, but this little aside made me chuckle, so.
nickdouglas:
“A couple of Twitter-related titles are aiming for stocking-stuffer status this season. “Twitter Wit,” edited by Nick Douglas, collects aspiring postmodern bathroom wisdom from the likes of Diablo Cody, Stephen Fry and Ashton Kutcher, and of various civilians. (Here’s Kutcher: “I really wish customs agents would stop trying to punk me.”)”
— Oh and the New York Times put...
icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse:
Brother: So, your friends all live in Brooklyn? Me: No, just the one. Brother: Really, they all look like they’re from Brooklyn. Me: Hah, no they don’t. Brother: I don’t know, those were some pretty thick rimmed glasses.
