December 2010
Rushfield Babylon: Does anyone know the exact date... →
richardrushfield:
Does anyone know the exact date when the present tense became the official tense of writers straining for edginess?
Is it edgy because it’s a retro thing? A throwback to writers in the 60’s and 70’s who actually understood the english language well enough to take the occasional license with…
Extra money for presents this year
bliptv:
Join thousands of Web show producers who are getting a little bit extra in their stocking this year! Visit your Dashboard to get started.
Many shows on blip.tv this holiday season are earning $1,000 or more per hundred thousand views. That’s $10 per thousand views and more money in your pocket for presents this holiday season. Some shows are making as much as $15 per thousand...
“It’s to be protected against violent crimes driven by bigotry, it’s to be able...”
– Barney Frank owning up to the radical homosexual agenda (Via Towleroad)
“It’s the rain that just won’t stop — day after day. It’s almost as continuous as...”
– All rivers in Los Angeles are metaphors. (via spiegelman)
“When young, I remember clearly how my father told me why our country was so...”
– Steve Wozniak, in an open letter to the FCC on net neutrality. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Jobs and created the Apple I and Apple II series computers in the mid-1970s.
Read the full letter here.
(via theatlantic)
Top Ten Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010 →
youngmanhattanite:
“Jews “had always been a problem in European countries. They had to be confined to ghettoes and periodically massacred.” … “Even after the massacre by the Nazis of Germany, they survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for the world.” –January 2010
former Malaysian Premier Mahatir Mohammad And that’s just #3!
Wow.
Live hearing on Net Neutrality →
kellysutton:
If the FCC creates policies like they ground their mics, we’re totally effed.
Seriously.
“With a flurry of additional announcements this morning, there is now enough...”
– First Read - GOP support gives START the votes for ratification
Fantastic!
Up to $15 CPMs (net to you) at blip.tv
blakeley:
mikehudack:
It’s the holiday season, and blip.tv is in the spirit. We’ve got shows using the blip.tv player right now that are making $15 CPMs. That’s $15 per one thousand video views. So release your new episodes in the blip player. Tweet, Facebook share, drive traffic. And get a check from blip in the new year to help support your show.
The number 1 top most watched YouTube...
“Senator John F. Kerry, laboring to achieve a foreign policy victory that would...”
– Scott Brown to support New START treaty - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com
I like Scott Brown more and more every day.
Up to $15 CPMs (net to you) at blip.tv
It’s the holiday season, and blip.tv is in the spirit. We’ve got shows using the blip.tv player right now that are making $15 CPMs. That’s $15 per one thousand video views. So release your new episodes in the blip player. Tweet, Facebook share, drive traffic. And get a check from blip in the new year to help support your show.
Researchers say they've found a (real) cure for... →
theweekmagazine:
A researcher in Germany says he’s discovered a fool-proof method for treating baldness! It could be available for humans within five years, offering relief to 80 percent of people who suffer from hair loss.
Here’s how it works
Robert Reich: The Real Reason Why Republicans... →
robertreich:
Has the President’s olive branch on extending the Bush tax breaks for the rich opened a new era in bi-partisanship? Not a chance.
Anyone who isn’t worried about loose nukes – nuclear warheads that can travel long distances, and could find their way into terrorist hands – should have his head…
“AT&T says it plans to use the unpaired spectrum—which is from the lower...”
– Qualcomm Sells FLO TV Wireless Spectrum to AT&T For Nearly $2 Billion | paidContent
So this plus a Verizon iPhone means I’ll be able to use my iPhone as a phone finally? (via evangotlib)
Sounds that way. Making me happy!
Watchbliptv:
This week Annie chats with Tom Reynolds, blip’s producer relations manager. Tom enlightens the world as to what goes on behind the scenes of support at blip.tv. Annie also features the eponymous show Old Jews Telling Jokes.
Bonus: Kelly makes a quick appearance for a special announcement!
An awesome episode!
“Is there no shame, ever, with respect to the arguments that are made sometimes...”
– Sen. John Kerry, pushing back on complaints from some Republicans that the new arms control treaty with Russia is being brought up at the last minute before the end of the lame duck Congress. Kerry said the treaty had been delayed 13 times at the request of Republicans. (via officialssay)
...the deadline: "No Panic Attacks in America" →
thedeadline:
Newsweek:
Bob Woodward exposed reams of classified intelligence in his most recent book. But it was Barack Obama’s assertion of the obvious that ignited outrage among his national-security critics. The president told Woodward that “we can absorb” another terrorist attack—implying that we…
OK Go's Damian Kulash on the Future of the Music... →
jaredklett:
Music is getting harder to define again. It’s becoming more of an experience and less of an object. Without records as clearly delineated receptacles of value, last century’s rules—both industrial and creative—are out the window. For those who can find an audience or a paycheck outside the traditional system, this can mean blessed freedom from the music industry’s gatekeepers.
...
Barack Hussein Obama is my president.
skybarn:
The greatest we’ve had since Roosevelt. Also, I’m far, far from rich and I’m getting a tax cut.
“The lab, called Genspace, is billed as a nursery for biotech entrepreneurs. It’s...”
– Biotech hacker lab opens in NYC (via noneck)
“The Associated Press is not publishing the station chief’s name because he...”
– CIA Station Chief Pulled from Islamabad - TIME
How do I get my name classified? I can see it now… “Hi, how are you doing? … Oh, no, I’m sorry, my name’s classified. Just call me Bob.”
Why Does Apple Offer Free Engraving? // Eli... →
superamit:
In brief: To reduce the size of the secondary market
(via Instapaper)
“A lean quiet man pushed his way through the crowd into the open of the...”
– Kenneth Chafee McIntosh, “Sudden Greatness” (The Atlantic, September 1921)
On this day in history, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Fifteen years later, Kenneth Chafee McIntosh looked back on the nascent history of human flight.
Read the full article...
“Unpopularity is not a crime and publishing offensive information isn’t either....”
– Representative John Conyers (D-Michigan), House Judiciary Committee Chairman
OK. Conyers has joined Ron Paul in defending WikiLeaks. It sounds like this might be contagious. Sanity could break out in our government at any moment. (via ericmortensen)
“The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to...”
– Ryan Gosling on Los Angeles, CA. (January 2011 GQ)
Only a pretty-boy actor would have the balls to say that nobody works in Hollywood. Only actors don’t work. The rest of us work our asses off so they can look good and sell tickets. Fuck you Gosling, and fuck anyone posting this quote like it’s...
Federal court rules that email is protected by... →
About time. It’s amazing that it’s taken this long.
YouTube Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Next New... →
nickdouglas:
Hot damn! Congratulations, guys!
Seriously.
“Google was close to buying a subscription-based streaming music service – either...”
– Google Wanted To Buy Spotify, But Internal Fighting Stopped It
Awesome! mp3.com is COMING BACK.
(via rickwebb)
tedr says
IMHO, a lynchpin for ChromeOS’ success is music streaming. Specifically the streaming of songs on demand, either from your library or all libraries. A subset of either will...
“I always wanted to spend my twilight years being regarded as a grizzled...”
– Clint Eastwood (via celluloidblonde)
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(via Marc Cenedella ((a fantastic former boss and manager)) on Hiring for TheLadders - Corner Office - NYTimes.com)
“I just realised that I found the word ‘superfluous’ unnecessary and then had a...”
– /r/linguistics (via nostrich)
petervidani:
IT’S GETTING DARKER EARLIER NOW!!!!!
It makes me sad.
Young Entrepreneurs Create Their Own Jobs →
Razzoo: Increments of Customer Retention →
brianoberkirch:
I met Scott Rutherford last week (UserVoice founder), and he had a really interesting take on the main metric you should work on. He said that getting monthly customer retention up from 95% is where a business gets interesting. At that 94.5% level, you’d have a sustained business, but not what he…
“We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”
– Walt Disney (via themadeshop) (via hitrecordjoe)
I'm giving a talk at vator.tv on Wednesday.
I’m supposed to give advice to entrepreneurs. What would be most interesting to you if you were attending?
interweber:
2) What if I logged in using Facebook Connect? Was my password compromised? No. We never stored passwords of users who logged in using Facebook Connect.
3) What if I linked my Twitter account with my Gawker Media account? Was my Twitter password compromised? No. We never stored Twitter passwords from users who linked their Twitter accounts with their Gawker Media...
