June 2009
100 posts
“Flat rounds are the new up rounds.”
– Good interview with one of our board members, Saban Ventures’ Craig Cooper.
I have seen the future of TV…and it’s not your... →
By Dave Knox. via johnfitzpatrick.
Shey.net Exclusive: Amazon to sell book titles as...
SEATTLE — After the success of the Kindle, Kindle 2, and Kindle DX, Amazon announced today that it would begin selling each of the 25 million book titles in its catalog in a new lower-priced product format called Kindle Paper Editions.
While each Kindle Paper Edition will contain only one, preloaded book, chosen at the time of purchase, and lack some of the features of the other Kindles such as...
Metric - Help I’m Alive.
I already posted a...
WatchTehran Police Battle: the Sequel!
For everyone who liked/reblogged that last link about militia (police?) arriving on motorbikes, there’s this next video, where the tide turns. You must watch until the very end. It’s a rare moment to cheer. Once again via Andrew Sullivan.
Stunning, terrifying footage via Persian BBC of... →
Andrew Sullivan describes it as “almost movie-style evil.”
“If Tehran’s hardliners are incapable of making nice with an American president...”
– Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in The New York Times, “Gauging Obama in Iran”
“Like MTV in its heyday, Next New is proudly hit or miss. Viewers don’t go to it...”
– Virginia Heffernan - The Medium - Are ‘Midtails’ the Future of Television? (NY Times)
Our best review ever.
“New Orleans will always be an important city: it is the largest American city in...”
– mills, whom I know would get along with famously in real life, speaking about a really interesting NY Times article, The Way of the Bayou.
Organizing large music collections →
great advice from justin, who knows a thing or two about how we all listen to music.
Best Email Autoresponse Ever
I sent an email to a bunch of people today including Matthias, one of our kick-ass post-production people at Next New Networks, and this came back:
WHAT UP! I am on a beach in the Outer Banks. Did you know that Blackbeard the Pirate set up his home base there and his ship was sunk there in the cove. To this day, his headless ghost searches for his head and his lost ship. Now that you have...
Marco Arment: Why don't I leave iPhone... →
It’s sad when one of the best iPhone developers out there takes the time to write an intelligent, constructive critique of the app store process (which was a really great post), and then gets emails saying “Why don’t you just leave iPhone development?” that he feels like he needs to actually respond to.
That’s as bad as the “America: love it or leave it”...
“For anyone lacking a Twitter feed and thus missing the intense virtual...”
– How Iran’s Hackers Killed Big Brother - The Daily Beast (via jaybushman and spytap)
Iran: Tim Shey on Observing Social Unrest Online... →
I had a guest post on my all-time favorite blog, Boing Boing, last night…. here’s the full text.
POSTED BY XENI JARDIN, JUNE 16, 2009 6:48 AM
I’m asking a number of BB friends to contribute guest posts here on the situation in Iran.Next New Networks founder Tim Shey was flying from NYC to LA yesterday, and had an interesting personal story — he kindly obliged my...
Huffington Post reporter Nico Pitney is... →
WatchHardTimes :: Art Hour from ze frank. (via buzzfeed)