July 2010
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It goes by many names: “The Crisis,” “The Dark Years,” “The Walking Plague,” as well as newer and more “hip” titles such as “World War Z” or “Z War One.” I personally dislike this last moniker as it implies an inevitable “Z War Two.” For me, it will always be...
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Pakistan Aids Insurgency in Afghanistan, Reports... →
Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants, according to a trove of secret military field reports made public Sunday.
The documents, made available by an...
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Watch/via @Mashable: Disney has released the newest trailer for TRON: Legacy at Comic-Con, and it’s spreading around the web like wildfire. TRON: Legacy is the much-anticipated sequel to Tron, the 1982 classic that follows hacker Kevin Flynn’s journey into the virtual world of the ENCOM mainframe. Jeff Bridges is reprising his role as Flynn in the sequel, which is due to be released on December 17,...
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WatchIf Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest one in the world. But on the day that the massive social network achieved its most significant milestone yet – crossing the 500 million member mark – the site’s young CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said that it’s the users who deserve all the credit.
Zuckerberg Calls Movie ‘Fiction,’ Disputes Signing Contract Giving Up Claim...
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ABC News + Slacker Radio = Headline News for Your... →
abcnewsradio:
ABC News Radio and Slacker Radio have teamed up to bring you headline news on your mobile device. Here’s the release:
SAN DIEGO, CA – July 20, 2010 – Slacker, Inc. today announced the addition of ABC News to the Slacker Personal Radio experience providing listeners with updated news from one of the nation’s most trusted sources. Slacker listeners now have access to a ...
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Bob Woodruff Reports: An Award-Winning Journalist... →
In the past week (and with TONS of help from Lisa Gruber at Porter Novelli and the @Squarespace team) I’ve relaunched the websites for Lee and Bob Woodruff. Here’s and excerpt from Bob’s site:
Bob Woodruff is an American television journalist. His career in journalism dates back to 1989, but is best-known for succeeding Peter Jennings as co-anchor of ABC...
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Lee Woodruff - Perfectly Imperfect →
Along with @Squarespace and Lisa at Porter Novelli I’ve helped both Bob and Lee Woodruff relaunch their websites in the past week. Here’s an excerpt from Lee’s newly-launched site:
Writing connects all of us through words, feelings and thoughts. It has the power to inspire, instill and heal so many things. It can make us chuckle, mist up, or bring about an “aha”...
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“The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks...”
– From today’s Washington Post. A hidden world, growing beyond control. Washington Post. July 19, 2010.
(via joshsternberg)
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Squarespace Gets $38M to Compete With WordPress... →
Stoked! Really proud of these guys:
From GigaOm:
Squarespace, a hosted content service that competes with companies such as WordPress (see disclosure below) has closed a $38-million financing round from two leading technology VCs — Accel Partners and Index Ventures — that will give the seven-year-old company a significant warchest and some substantial backing in the battle for...
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Techmeme Offers Tech News at Internet Speed -... →
Noah Berger for The New York Times
Gabe Rivera, founder of Techmeme, in the foreground, with Omer Horvitz, a developer, and Megan McCarthy, editor of the site.
SAN FRANCISCO — News lovers in Washington can’t live without Mike Allen at Politico. Hollywood squabbles over the relative merits of Sharon Waxman’s TheWrap versus Nikki Finke’s Deadline. The newspaper industry reads the news collected...
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Abraço - New York Magazine Restaurant Review →
One of the last remaining great cups of coffee in NYC.
(Photo: Jeremy Liebman)
Ayear and a half ago, when the Underground Gourmet adapted this magazine’s five-star restaurant-rating system to our own purposes (eating every inexpensive thing in sight) and applied said stars to various falafel shacks, taco carts, and pizza joints, the thought of ranking coffee bars never crossed our minds. And...
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“Foursquare is growing quickly, gaining momentum from mainstream deals, and now...”
– This is, in effect, what we’ve been building with #ZombieDoom. Very cool.
Foursquare’s Next Game: Choose Your Own Adventure?
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Classic Lenny Bruce Quote on Being Goyish in NYC →
I had a conversation with a friend in Brooklyn last night about being a Goy in NYC. That reminded me of this hilarious Lenny Bruce quite [reference]
If you live in New York or any other big city, you are Jewish. It doesn’t matter even if you’re Catholic; if you live in New York, you’re Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you’re going to be goyish even if you’re...
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Longform [dot] org →
One of my favorite sites. Paired with Instapaper, Longform [dot] org is a wealth of great stories in the perfect format.
We post articles, past and present, that we think are too long and too interesting to be read on a web browser.
We started this site to bring together our enthusiasm for both great longform reads and the excellent Instapaper reader.