February 2012
7 posts
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Paying good money for free television
Completely amusing:
At my house, we recently upgraded to the Netflix plan that involves both DVDs and unlimited streaming. We also picked up a new DVD player (Blu-Ray, bluray, Boo Boo Ray, what is this I don’t even) with built in wireless Internets, too, so we can hook up the machines to the Netflix and watch the shows on the old 4:3 TV in the living room.
OK, that’s not the...
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While Gunfire Echoes Inside Syria, A Cry For Help... →
Did you hear this on Morning Edition today? I’m sure I’ve heard reporters introduced as “citizen journalist and blogger” before, but (maybe) not as the sole reporter on the ground.
It’s the natural progression of things, but that attribution caught my ear today. Felt like a milestone.
Related to the last
OLD FRIEND YESTERDAY: i'm enjoying your new teenage girl blog persona
ME: OMG.
ME: great.
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This is what happens when you browse your alma...
A series of events last night:
Was messing around on Tumblr for a few minutes before watching an episode of Downton Abbey on Netflix.
Clicked on the “steenbeck” tag I had saved previously.
They all reminded me of editing rooms back in college at NYU.
Clicked on the first NYU tag I see.
Scrolled through a series of posts most often authored by high school kids dreaming of going to...
“2:50 — Twitter has already blown up about Blake’s dunk. @Jose3030 gets the...”
– Person of Interest, the Los Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin - Grantland
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January 2012
19 posts
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In which I cite the works of N.W.A. to prove a...
In a recent blog post that’s been making the proverbial rounds, murkavenue claims to have identified the “Good Day” Ice Cube told us all about in a 1992 single. You might recall that Cube didn’t have to use his AK.
This “clue” from the aforementioned post has been driving me insane:
“…beepers weren’t adopted by mobile phone companies until the...
“It’s gotta be a topless bar!” he cried. “This is the greatest...”
– The real story of ‘Headless Body in Topless Bar,’ as argued by veterans of the ‘Post’
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It was the most money I had been paid to work in...
I had a story in my head this morning, something from my days working on movies, except like many of these stories, it’s a weird edge case, a thing that happened once and never again.
I think I was filling in for a union grip on a pre-rig for some sort of movie out in Long Island. No memory of what it was called or who was in it, and I don’t think we saw the D.P. at all that day. And...
LAPD cracks down on drone aircraft use by real... →
Hey guys, what year was Blade Runner set in again?
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@1812PLUS200 →
I’m 11 tweets deep into authoring a completely ridiculous Twitter account that chronicles the War of 1812, 200 years after the fact.
It’s been remarkably difficult so far, due to the fact that things don’t really heat up in 1812 until winter ends.
We don’t start declaring anything resembling a war until June.
And I don’t get to livetweet Dolley Madison saving that...
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These are my worst Instagram photos
Much like the poetry I wrote in high school, I’ve classified some of my Lomo, Holga, and now Instagram-powered photography over the past, say, 12 years, as “bad on purpose,” as if there were some sort of meta-narrative about photography in play.
In reality, the pictures I make just sometimes suck. As did the poems.
It’s not that I’m not trying, it’s that I...
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Pinterest gains 55 percent more visitors in one... →
Anyone want to take a guess as to why?
“As more work-related activities become represented on the social graph, the...”
– Is the 90/9/1 rule still relevant on an Enterprise Collaboration Platform?
The "Steenbeck" tag on Tumblr →
Since we’re talking about a 16mm editing table, and Tumblr, I think most of the people using this tag are NYU Film students.
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A Q&A with a 'Daily News' Crime Reporter →
Notes on the importance of appearance from an old-school-sounding, but not really that old crime beat reporter in New York City:
“And dress shoes. Always wear dress shoes. People look at your shoes. Dress shoes say you’re important. They say you’re official. They say you’re employed. People respond to that. I’m nobody special; I just happened to be the dude in the...
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Research notes: A completely arbitrary list of... →
mattwaite:
The number of students I have seen who are budding journalist-developers ready to start busting out apps in your shop: 0. Why? Comes down to passion. I haven’t seen that student take what we talked about in class and run off on their own. It seems they’re still waiting for something. I don’t know what that is.
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
3 posts
September 2011
9 posts
"Syndication" and the Shoddy Currency of Linkage →
Should you launch at a conference? →
What Replaces Newspapers (Literally) →
Sigh.
Film School or No Film School? →
The best part about this? It inspired me to search YouTube for “NYU Sight and Sound Film,” which is a bit of a rabbit hole.
Man Angry At Paper →
Rumsfeld v. New York Times
Some Americans Then and Now, 1941 - 2011 →
A brief view of self-doubt in America, on Dec. 7, 1951: “When the American people woke up on Dec. 7, 1941, they were living in an age in which there still lingered some of the easy-going optimism of the nineteenth century. They still believed that without too much effort and too much pain things might be made to turn out all right. They knew about Hitler but many of them didn’t quite...
Data-ish job openings →
Pushbutton pipes →
This is a test of ifttt. If you’re reading this on my Tumblr, mash the link and be amazed.
August 2011
5 posts
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
6 posts
