July 2010
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Watchfoursquare:
Love this super hot commercial from our friends at VH1. The spot will be airing ALL summer (and then some). “Unlock it to rock it” - the lucky winner gets unlimited free access pass to any live show (hint: Live Nation participating venues) venue of his choice for a year! (via tristanwalker)
Another great example of TV + Foursquare partnering. Love how Tristan and the team are...
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“I feel the same way about Bush presidencies as I do about Godfather films:...”
– David Letterman
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“Life is really hard, and it’s the only one you have. I mean, I like doing what I...”
– Bill Murray - July 2, 2010, Entertainment Weekly (via thebambody). This was a really fun read.
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5 Questions With… Know Your Meme's Kenyatta Cheese →
My great pal Kenyatta, one of the people who got me into web video in the first place, has a great Q&A on NewTeeVee.
kenyatta:
I responded to NewTeeVee’s 5 Questions with about 10 answers. Also, today is Blog About Your Own Press Mentions Sunday.
Q: What’s the one big issue/law/attitude/restriction that you think is holding back the industry?
A: Is there really something holding us back?...
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The Old Spice Campaign by the Numbers (Mashable) →
Number of videos made: 180+. Number of video views: 5.9 million. Number of comments: 22,500. Simply awesome.
7ariablequantity asked: Let's say I'm a webseries producer with pilot material. What's the best way to approach Next New Networks with this material, or is unsolicited pitches a no-no?
Top Secret America (The Washington Post) →
Dana Priest’s bombshell investigative report for the Washington Post outlining the scale of the U.S. intelligence complex since 9/11 dropped today, after a weekend of everyone from Politico to the Atlantic saying the article was terrifying members of the intelligence community (Priest previously won the George Polk award for blowing the lid off of the CIA’s secret prisons around the...
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“Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway [via Karyn]
credit and stuff
david:
I just wanted to give credit for “Liquidity is the new luxury” to Tim Shey, a much more articulate person than me! He mentioned it at dinner last week when I described how much better it feels to spend money on food or travel than on things that clutter and distract from the wonderful people in my life.
And to give proper credit, I was simply paraphrasing Sam Lessin, who’d been...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →
The Cure
ohler
Tokyo Police Club
LCD Soundsystem
Death Cab for Cutie
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
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“Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.”
– Harvey Pekar, 1939-2010
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“In the Polynesian islands, human meat has always been known as “long pig”,...”
– Warren Ellis: On cannibalism - pulling out all the stops in his monthly WIRED UK column (via Instapaper)
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"Positioning" MTV. 1987.
Fred and Alan wrote the book. Literally.
fredseibert:
Throughout most of the 80s, our original, in-house, MTV creative team had established all the original vocabulary (written and visual) for the channel. In April 1983, Alan and I resigned and set up Fred/Alan as the media’s first “branding” consultancy and advertising agency. Bob Pittman was a smart and shrewd competitor; he signed us...
sashafrerejones: Things that I do not believe... →
1. Google Wave.
2. Wolfram Alpha.
3. The Club™.
4. Built-in AA battery testers.
5. All the napkins they pull out of a dispenser (except at pizza parlors).
I would add mail-in product registration cards, but I’m probably wrong.
grant: Things to know about U.S. immigration. →
1. Before 1875, there was no such thing as an illegal immigrant. Before that, there were people who couldn’t be naturalized, but they were allowed to live and work in America.
[via sashafrerejones.]
YouTube Announces Partner Grant Program →
YouTube announced yesterday during Vidcon that they’ve set aside $5 million to seed innovative new content from top partners to grant as advances against revenue share. More on this over at Advertising Age. Look for some very cool new series from some of the best partners on YouTube soon; here’s hoping the program’s a huge success, and it’s a $50 million fund next time...
“We cheer for athletes because sports does not matter, not really. We cheer...”
– From LeBron React: Never Has Being a Sports Fan Felt So Stupid, an excellent piece by Will Leitch in NY Mag.
WatchSmoke coming out of the manhole fire on 9th & 23rd (uploaded from my mobile using the Tumblr app; will replace with a better quality version).
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