December 2011
2 posts
Occupy Words: “Blood-Sucking Parasites of... →
wordsofoccupy:
Rochelle Gurstein, writing in The New Republic, covered a recent event with author Chris Lehmann speaking about his new book, Rich People Things - which details the hilarious (and patently scary) ideas of the kind of one-percenters happy with being labelled “elite.” What’s fascinating is the…
Occupy Words: Occupy language →
wordsofoccupy:
Dan Gillmor, citizen journalism ninja and Silicon Valley watcher, in a widely-syndicated piece about the language of the occupy movement published last week, is hung up on the linguistic abuses of both sides of the occupy divide. He hates the euphemisms rolled out by government (‘enhanced…
November 2011
1 post
Occupy Words: Mic check catches on →
wordsofoccupy:
The Occupy movement seems to be prototyping new language and civic ritual. Fascinating to see the lexicon of dissent growing as we watch. Reuters’ Laird Harrison concludes that the ‘human mic; (or ‘mic check’) is at least a part of Occupy culture. I predict that this weird, awkward…
August 2011
3 posts
“Those public charities are a screen to cover his private iniquities.”
– Holmes on philanthropy…
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection (4 Novels and 46 Short Stories… by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“In a larger sense, the anarchists were doomed by their own contradictions. They...”
– From Crazy ‘08 by Cait N. Murphy
The story of the 1908 baseball season also has some links to our own times - I found the description of the anarchist movement of those days eerily similar to some of the rhetoric from Julian Assange and his followers, as well as Anonymous, Lulzsec and the...
June 2011
9 posts
Matt Galligan: Things I'd like to see in... →
mattgalligan:
First off, if you haven’t heard of Turntable.fm, what rock have you been hiding under? It’s the new killer music site started by Stickybits founders Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen. Basically you join a room, where up to five DJs are spinning their tracks for an audience, sometimes…
Happy 69th birthday Paul McCartney - this is my...
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April 2011
0 posts
Mad Men and Women →
For fans of Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, on temporary hiatus due to rancorous contractual disputes and John Slattery’s commitment to embarrassing “Smarter Than Luxury” Lincoln…
March 2011
5 posts
WatchSleetstorm over Manhattan
Love this tune, and here’s pretty good...
Japan Faces Nuclear Disaster
February 2011
2 posts
From Cairo to Algiers →
Instant movies on Netflix, streamed through my son’s hand-me-down xBox (he’s traded up) brought me to the teeming streets of a North African revolt a few weeks ago, in my insanely prescient…
The Revolution Will be Televised →
You won’t find it on Time Warner or FIOS or Cablevision, but Al Jazeera’s English language television service is laying claim to the viewing loyalty of vast numbers of news-hungry,…
January 2011
5 posts
RT @orbooks: We’ve done it now…we’re thrilled to announce WIKILEAKS AND THE AGE OF TRANSPARENCY by Micah L. Sifry! pre-order… http:/ …
Pablo Eisenberg: Unintended Consequences of Giving... →
Only a tiny fraction of their money is channeled to low-income oriented nonprofits, grassroots organizations, local social service groups or advocacy and activist organizations.
The Field: Tucson: An Eye for an Eye Blinds All →
…little has changed in the essence of the American character, except that technology, and in particular, media, have ramped up the echo chamber that takes a violent act in one corner (Memphis, Los Angeles, Tucson) and brings such tragedies and traumas at higher speed and reverberation to every TV room, every workplace, every school, every home, and to the inner dialogue of every lone...
“Twitter beta-tested a spine.”
– Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard | Threat Level | Wired.com (via fred-wilson)
December 2010
10 posts
Reading #wikileaks cables - frankly feeling good about paying diplomatic corps salaries - smart, committed, good at listening.
RT @dallant: Be strong, New York friends going through torrential downpour. I’m bringing you some California sun! @tomwatson @jennedeau …
Help stop hate on Long Island! http://bit.ly/gJe9tq
Stuck inside of Best Buy with those Memphis blues again
Opening the Conversation: Fiscal Future Daily http://bit.ly/fjyfbX
Negative reaction to Starbucks #Share - why? - because they line-jumped on Twitter
RT @FiscalFuture: It’s official: Deficit Commission Postpones vote until Friday http://bit.ly/e4Glh2 But stay tuned: they’ll unveil a ‘f …
Can’t help but wonder what $3.5 mil for Jumo giving platform could have done for real network innovation like @socialactions
RT @peterdaou: This is a world where a woman is sentenced to hang for “blasphemy” http://bit.ly/dXIdhT
RT @geoffliving The Zoetica Salon, a free community for NPOs on @kanter’s Facebook page http://ow.ly/3hUYC
Jumo Grabs the Hype, But What’s the Value? http://bit.ly/ffN6k9
RT @bowbrick: Gawker redesign interesting refinement but probably not “an evolution of the very blog form” http://lifehac.kr/ge8Icx #fb
Speaking to great Connecticut nonprofits next week - sign up here - it’s free! http://bit.ly/gS3wIj
November 2010
40 posts
The Jets are bragging that they topped the Patriots in Twitter folos - yet they *bought* a folo rec. Twitter is dying….
Contrarian view on #wikileaks - proof that mainstream journalism really is in dark about U.S. intel?
Yeah right, Verizon’s lame-ass #cybermonday promo is ‘trending’ ahead of Leslie Neilsen - fake trends fail
‘A rising tide has lifted all yachts’ - Warren Buffett on tax cuts for the wealthy
RT @peterdaou: OK to be morally conflicted about #Cablegate. Competing interests of transparency, privacy, diplomacy aren’t easily recon …
RT @hardaway: Twitter has suggested a “promoted” account for me to follow. No chance, Twitter. Just for that one reason.
RT @SMacLaughlin: 68% of nonprofits reported increased demand for services in the first nine months of 2010. http://ow.ly/3gM01 #nptrends
RT @NobueIto: @tomwatson Twitter kept suggesting I should follow them. I don’t have any need to follow a vacuum cleaner company.
Like anyone would believe that LG vacuums were trending - yet another promoted “trend” fail for Twitter @ev @biz
RT @KatrinaNation: Former Justice John Paul Stevens Criticizes Death Penalty - http://nyti.ms/fLQQ6T