August 2010
29 posts
'Round the Square » Don’t “lipstick,” and 25 other... →
20 Things That Should Be Included In Your Online... →
Added my thoughts in a comment here.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29) →
Common (13)
Active Child (11)
Mogwai (8)
Mumford & Sons (6)
Langhorne Slim (4)
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“The revised message focused on the fix rather than the problem and resulted in a...”
– Best Practices for Writing Interface Text [Organizing Content #24] | I’d Rather Be Writing
Fair Warning
I’m going to be posting more content about community and management here. Brain and linkdumps, ahoy!
Nice post-order communication from... →
Read the comments - great and important feedback.
10 Tips For Aspiring Community Managers →
Solid stuff here. It’s not rocket science, but enough to keep up!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-22) →
The Beach Boys (14)
The Roots (14)
Phantogram (13)
UNKLE (9)
Mumford & Sons (8)
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I Love You, But Goodbye - Langhorne Slim →
Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority →
MOGWAI
M O G W A I
Ryan Freitas: 35 Lessons in 35 Years →
My father always told me that the day we stop learning is the day we die. I wrote this as a sort of preparation for my 35th birthday last week. Some of these are poignant, others are simply trite; I attribute the latter to my growing sense of sentimentality as I age. That, and I need an editor.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-15) →
Broken Social Scene (22)
Florence + the Machine (17)
Frightened Rabbit (15)
The Decemberists (15)
Paul Simon (14)
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listening to "PHANTOGRAM live in Europe AS FAR AS... →
Self-imposed cinderella night in, doing chores, digging phantogram.
Art is not soy.
indefensible:
lauraglu:
But indefensible, you have videos of yourself on your website - is this not generated content?
I hate content farms, but content generation in itself is helpful and necessary for most websites. Not a full time job.
One might say the content is only as good as those who read it? Write it? I dunno, something like that.
The term ‘generated content’ conjures in the...
Art is not soy.
indefensible:
Even porn stars call what they do ‘content generation’. The term is hideous precisely because it carries no value judgement. If you fuck on camera, then you fuck on camera. There’s honour in that, if that’s what you want to do. But there’s no honour in ‘content generation’.
But indefensible, you have videos of yourself on your website - is this not generated content?
I hate...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-8) →
Mumford & Sons (23)
Björk (20)
Ben Folds Five (11)
Matthew Dear (10)
Spiritualized (9)
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Beauty 101: Your Drugstore And Department Store... →
Helpful, especially for those of us who are uninterested in playing around with and testing out makeup.
“One major finding is that spending money for an experience — concert tickets,...”
– Consumers Find Ways to Spend Less and Find Happiness - NYTimes.com
I think I practice this generally, as evidenced by my lack of furniture and gadgets but pile of concert tickets!
The dos and don'ts of moderating your firm's... →
Prescient
Home in Michigan, I am going through some old things and came across my 6th grade CCD Prayer for the Class:
Lord,
Please help people that are free to make the right decisions, and help the people that aren’t free to get their freedom. You created us all equal, so give us all the chance to live equally.
Amen,
Laura
Eunoia →
tedr:
bobulate:
Eunioa, a new book that tells the story, in a way, of vowels:
Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels — and it means “beautiful thinking”. It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bök’s book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.
Eunoia abides by many rules:
All chapters must allude to the art of writing. All chapters must...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-1) →
Active Child (12)
Phantogram (9)
The Twelves (1)
Tycho (1)
Best Coast (1)
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listening to "The New Pornographers - Crash Years" →
Check it @timoni!
