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A rare deleted scene from the making of Julie & Julia.
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A rare deleted scene from the making of Julie & Julia.
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My favorite photo in this how-to, the customization of the swing seat.
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The Obama Whitehouse may be working on leveraging technology to; bring transparency and api's to Government, lower costs of healthcare, and find ways to stop global warming but the group of pranksters that is the GOP seems bent on bringing fun times to Internet using liberals by taking user generated content to a new level with their interactive Micheal Steele solutions suite. You can upload photos and select a variety of Michael Steele photos to overlay, you can make him appear in a welcome video on the site of your choice, you can use a gop.am URL shortener, and you can even make a health care ad-lib. What will those crazy kids think of next?
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Two interesting views of tablet driven "magazines" of the future but are they really magazines? Other than being touch driven on a tablet driven what's new? Meanwhile, while I wait for a tablet that will enable me to read while in a car without getting ill as shown in the second video, back in the web and mobile based world there are obviously a huge number of interesting experiments in delivering "magazine" like experiences; panelfly, the NYT T magazine, and Orion's electronic edition, Make mag digital edition, Jonah Harris's WhaleHunt as an example of deep story telling, the Mcsweeney's iphone app It is really a silly exercise to even begin making a list as it gives credence to the idea that the idea of a future magazine doesn't exist now.
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The idea behind the partnership between Firestone and M.L.B. is to emphasize the deep roots each has in American life. “From our perspective, the tradition of Firestone and the tradition of M.L.B. go together perfectly,” said John Baratta, president of consumer tire replacement sales for Bridgestone Americas. Bridgestone, a Japanese company, owns the Firestone brand, having purchased the company in 1988.
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Even the backstory that Firestone had a ballpark for its employees is weak.
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Perfect X-Mas present for the cycling art lover in your house
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"Some bicycle purists have already dismissed the wheel as a novelty while others suggest that M.I.T. has succeeded in reinventing the wheel"
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Came across this site on a list of great looking typepad blogs. Kind of like The Sartorialist's black sheep brother.
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But then again, the internet has always been filled with crap. So the challenge has always been how you find the cream. That’s where opportunities lie. That’s what Google saw. The new question is whether Google can keep ahead of the content farms and continually find new and better ways to find better stuff. I’ll bet on Google over crap-creators. But they better get cracking...
In all of this, I caution us not to miss Demand’s key insight: that the public should assign the creators, including journalists. The public often knows what it wants to know. I learned this lesson when I consulted at About.com and saw how they monitor search queries to see where there are questions for which the don’t have answers. When that happens, they go write answers; Demand automates the process. Makes sense.
This is not how we have operated in media: We decided which questions to answer because we asked them. What hubris! Today, I teach my students to find conversations on the internet and add journalism to them in the form of answers, corrections, reporting, explanations…
What amazed me most is that Demand uses its method not only for service content but for jokes at Cracked.com. Could an algorithm and social network replace Jay Leno? Easy.
Jeff Jarvis's really interesting report on Demand Media.
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Great piece about Anomia. It is a really fun game and makes a great present. This Christmas help an aspiring publisher out buy his game.
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Zinczenko: ”The newsstand coverlines are a tool that help us reach the maximum number of guys possible, on promises we know we’ll fulfill every issue. For many magazines, certain cover subjects — from lines to celebrities — are an important part of their newsstand branding. But for the 80 percent of readers who get our subscriber copies, the lines are totally different and reflect the breadth and depth of our reporting with the 12 million readers we serve each month. Rest assured — it’s this originality and reporting rigor that’s made us the biggest men’s magazine brand in the world.”
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This is kind of brilliant by Men's Health. They really should do this every month. The covers they use in supermarkets could be the same with different models. They could probably rotate the same magazines in a 24 month cycle and no one would notice. Another thing is why is Perez Hilton reading Men's Health. He is the new Romanesko.
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“We’re doing this to preserve our industry, I can’t sit back and watch years of building authors sold off at bargain-basement prices. It’s about the future of the business.”
Correction: This move is about the past of your business.
I’m just being a historian here when I point out that language like “We’re doing this to preserve our industry” is a classic symptom of what we at Forrester loving call The Media Meltdown. I wrote a whole report on this ailment and its many symptoms, chief among them is that media businesses attempt to preserve analog business models in the digital economy, even when analog economics no longer apply. This is exactly that scenario.
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Well written piece with some nice options for publishers that are an alternative to simply pulling the digital versions of books for a few months.
I'm on a plane right now and I just watched Julie & Julia (sorry B it was the best on offer) and Mastering the Art of French Cooking got a $1500 advance from Knopf. It is now in it's 43rd printing.
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If implemented well, it could help boost the struggling publishing industry, which has been trying to find ways to bring its content to the digital world without sacrificing the magazine layouts we know and love and the ad revenue that comes with them.
The flip side is that this could fall flat—Internet users are accustomed to being able to copy and paste passages, share articles with others, and manipulate content to fit their needs. Will a "tabletized" version of a magazine layout be able to offer that kind of flexibility? Users have also become accustomed to seeing a lot of magazine content online for free. Will they want to pay extra for a digitally-recreated magazine experience? We won't know the answer to this and other questions until more details are available. One thing is certain: the online experiences—especially the missteps—of the music, television, and movie industries demonstrate the challenges of bringing an old media format to a digital medium.
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“Anything I can do for the Jewish people, I will do,” Mr. Hatch said in an interview before heading to the Senate floor to debate an abortion amendment. “Mormons believe the Jewish people are the chosen people, just like the Old Testament says.'...In short, he loves the Jews.
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I was tempted to embed the video in this post but I just can't bring myself to do it.
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RE: BPA Joint Trade Association Meeting on Communications Strategy Meeting Goal: Develop potential communication/media strategies around BPA
Discussion Topics: Consideration of available web-based communication options, including targeted geographies, as well as mainstream media response
Attending Companies: Coca-Cola, Alcoa, Crown, North American Metal Packaging Alliance, Inc., Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), American Chemistry Council, Del Monte
Summary: Attendees discussed the need to be more proactive in communications to media, legislators, and the general public to protect industries that use BPA, prolong the life of BPA, put risks from chemicals in proper prospective, and transcend the media and the blogosphere...Their “holy grail” spokesperson would be a “pregnant young mother who would be willing to speak around the country about the benefits of BPA.”
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via an excerpt in this month's offline Harper's.
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Ring ring, paging Adrian Grenier? Hit us up and we'll buy you one so you can wear it loud and proud, you cheat.
Now, next order of business: one of you single Slope boys (yes, all of five of you) has to knock me up so I can make brilliant use of that hot pink Got Kombucha? onesie.
More love for the Coop Shirts.
This is great.
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