June 2012
1 post
Database: How much did your liquor cost before... →
Consumers will pay more for liquor beginning June 1 when private retailers can sell spirits in Washington for the first time since Prohibition ended. A wholesalers trade group says there could be a 15 to 35 percent price hike. Here’s a database of state-mandated prices before June 1.
But hey, now you can buy booze at Safeway. Just think of that 15-35% markup as a convenience charge,...
May 2012
6 posts
Journalism magnet school ... for first-graders
sasquatchmedia:
I’m so in love with this concept I could die. Why shouldn’t we start teaching journalism in first grade? It’s the linchpin of our democracy.
I’m not a parent but first grade may be too young for kids to start drinking.
“‘I sent a second-unit camera crew to Glacier National Park to shoot the title...”
– Stanley Kubrick, in conversation with film critic Michel Ciment, discussing the filming of the opening title sequence of The Shining. (via the-overlook-hotel)
Earlier this week, a friend of mine took his own life. He was 35.
I keep turning things over in my head, looking up information on the internet and talking with friends to try and make sense of it— not the reason why Jeff took his life. That’s clear. He was bipolar and severely depressed and over the last couple years hit a succession of lower bottoms— I’m trying to make sense...
April 2012
3 posts
March 2012
9 posts
“The “scroll for more” function should be adopted by more iPhone developers. I’ll...”
– —SeoulBrother
Something I wrote back in June 2009 about Birdfeed’s (new to me) “pull to refresh” feature. I was sure it shipped but Buzz and Neven say it didn’t. [confused-face]
“There is a surprisingly rich tetherball culture, including line etiquette and...”
– Moltz: The Angry Serve
“Really since the introduction of the iPhone, but particularly after the advent...”
– Buzz Andersen, my pal and Director of Mobile Development at Tumblr
Couldn’t possibly agree more.
(via edp)
February 2012
5 posts
Profitable news - Jeff Jarvis →
The problem is that journalists don’t know shit about business. Culturally, they don’t want to. I often hear from journalists who are downright hostile to corporations and even capitalism not because they’re commies but because they believe they’re above it all (there is the root, I believe, of much of their cynicism about Google and other large technology companies). - Jeff Jarvis
I...
Dear Journalists,
Stop calling what you produce “content.” You do great journalism. The moment you reduce what you do to “content” is the moment you fall in with the business processes that have failed your profession.
Paper isn’t the issue. The Internet isn’t the problem. There is no golden business model and there won’t be until you stop reducing the work you do—...
January 2012
9 posts
Silent Ringtone
You guys read about that conductor who stopped his performance mid-symphony because someone (Patron X) didn’t turn off or silence their cell phone?
We’ve all been interrupted mid-event, mid-meeting or mid-sentence by our own “Eat something” Bell Tower or the “Cancel abortion appointment!!!!” Marimba. It’s embarrassing. Then I remembered a thing a friend...
nostrich: Gentlemen, I have started a blog. Famous... →
nostrich:
Gentlemen, I have started a blog. Famous last words, to be sure, but I’ve been thinking about and planning and working on this for a while, and I like what it’s ended up looking like. I will tell you all about it, but first some boring meandering in pursuit of a point.
Not just yes, but fuck yes. Longform journalism curated and contextualized by Nostrich.
December 2011
10 posts
WatchSinging Christmas carols at home.
(From The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975.)
Suburban Report
texburgher:
Jason stopped over with a bottle of gin. He had texted me, earlier in the week, to ask me if I wanted one while he was at the store, and I told him I did. But when he arrived today, he confused me by presenting it as a gift. I told him no, no, let me give you some money for it. Here, I said, I have enough money to pay you for the thing you got me at my own request. No way, he said,...
Christmas tree
Sweets: […] I would've sawed it off myself, but you won't let me touch the weapons!
Me: [beat] And that's why. They're not weapons. They're *tools*.
You know the tumblr spammers…
… with their default avatars that throw a like at some old ass post of yours only to have a link back to their blogspotty bullshit site? That’s SEO.
November 2011
7 posts
Asshat of the Week: Jack Womack →
journo-geekery:
“We also spent a great deal of time analyzing how we utilize and deploy photojournalists across all of our locations in the U.S. […] We looked at the impact of user-generated content and social media, CNN iReporters and of course our affiliate contributions in breaking news. Consumer and pro-sumer technologies are simpler and more accessible. Small cameras are now high broadcast...
I made a thing! →
punkassjim:
Please share it around, for those who may like such things. I’ve only got two listed on Etsy right now, but I’ve got a the fixins to make about a dozen more. All hand-made by me
Embossed leather “Electric Library” cover for iPad 2
1 tag
Watching Methodists gamble on pull tabs
There’s a lust in their eyes us dope-heads and heathens are incapable of making. Like a Yankees fan, wins are ugly and losses quietly dismissed.
“Bill won $50 bucks once.”
“Gail won $5 and $20 last Sunday.”
They wear their disappointment like a retired sales manager wearing a too-hip leather jacket. It’s all around them, tight in the wrong places,...
“The federal government requires applicants for certain civil service jobs to...”
– Should Candidates Have to Pass a Civics Test?
That is a very good question, Room for Debate of the NYTimes.com. If the humblest immigrant can nail a test Newt Gingrich could never pass, should the latter even be allowed to run?
I say no.
— From SF.
(via whileyouweresleeping)
I’ve...
Woah. Romenesko Leaves Poynter After Conflict Over... →
utnereader:
Jim Romenesko, the blogger who developed a large and loyal following by chronicling and summarizing news in the media world, quit his post on Thursday evening after a bizarre spat with the institute that hosts his writing. (via Media Decoder)
… huh.