December 2010
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“Journalist and novelist Tom Bissell’s surprisingly tender recollection of...”
– Gawker’s ‘The Best Things We Read in 2010’
I’ve only played one game profiled in Bissell’s “Extra Lives,” but the book stuck with me all year.
“I enjoy clicking on separate menu links to view the Appetizers, Salads, Meat...”
– Nobody. Nobody has ever said this about a restaurant website.
“A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army...”
– German proverb (via demons)
“… the UN’s special advisers on genocide prevention and the responsibility...”
– Why we should be worried about genocide in Cote d’Ivoire
“Jerry Seinfeld once famously made a show of retiring all of his material and...”
– The Year of Louis CK
“Klein first had the idea to hire Spitzer after reading his financial-reform...”
– The original idea for Spitzer’s SOLO show on CNN. It sounds like something you actually might want to watch.
From Michael Calderone’s list of the best media stories of the year, which makes for a good excuse to read those things you said you’d read.
“The marriage between MGM and the Marxes was uneasy. Thalberg was a busy man, and...”
– The Badass Hall of Fame: Groucho Marx
“We want them to enjoy the level of celebrity attention that I usually get. If...”
– Clooney, explaining his plan to use satellites to track troop movements along the border between northern/southern Sudan.
This could be a good idea, as there are some distinctly terrifying things afoot in advance of the likely secession of the south.
“We started shooting. It was AWESOME. Louis knows his stuff and totally knew what...”
– Love Letters to ‘Louie’
“People on South Beach would rather watch Paris Hilton throw up in a nightclub...”
– Carl Hiassen on the Heat’s local fan base
“To pull off Hack the Debate, Sloan describes a surprisingly low-tech,...”
– I Want My Twitter TV!.
To anyone who’s tried to get Twitter on TV, I doubt it’s surprising at all. Someone has do the editorial work of RTing, whether it’s on Tweetdeck or on air.
We're Hiring! This Time in New York! →
nbclocal:
Well, the folks at NBC New York are.
They’re accepting applications for a social media editor (which is the job title for one of this Tumblr blog’s managers).
You’d get to help develop our latest project “The 20,” among other fun things.
Come aboard. We’re expecting you.
“While I don’t have a clear definition for my title, in the short time I’ve been...”
– “Community Host: An Emerging Newsroom ‘Beat’ Without a Guide”
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“We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.”
– Stephen Vincent Benet (via demons)
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“I don’t care for anything. Two of my brothers were sacrificed at Stalingrad and...”
– Anonymous German infantryman, Normandy (via demons)