August 2011
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Infographic: How Americans Use Social Tools in... →
courtenaybird: More than 1/3 of people expect help to arrive within one hour of posting need to a social site. Seriously? Oh yes - you also may be shocked to know that ‘changing my font color’ constitutes an emergency for some folks nowadays.
Aug 31st
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“I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.”
– Andrew Mason, CEO, Groupon | Is Groupon’s Bizarre CEO Ruining His IPO? (via courtenaybird)
Aug 31st
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-28) →
Active Child (38) Paul White (34) Ryan Adams (24) Still Lost Bird Music (7) Burial (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 31st
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Aug 31st
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David Noël: Ten Job Application Mistakes →
rickwebb: yancey: I’ve had the opportunity to review a few thousand resumes over my time, and I’m regularly frustrated by some simple gaffes that people make over and over. Want to get the job? Avoid these mistakes: 1. “Cover letter attached.” People insist on attaching their cover letters as PDFs…. I’m out of the hiring game at the moment, but I have hired many, many great people who have...
Aug 30th
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Changing the Ratio at SXSW | Emma Persky →
Wow - have thoughts on this but not well enough formed to put them out there.
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Making It Easier to Share With Who You Want →
Aug 23rd
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“If you can sleep on a plane, after all, you must have a higher consciousness...”
– How to Sleep on a Plane (Virginia Heffernan) The only flight I’ve ever slept through entirely was a “reverse red-eye,” one of those 5:30 or 6AM flights from the East Coast to the West Coast where I simply hadn’t slept the night before and then left for the airport. And that was only once. Another...
Aug 22nd
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Aug 20th
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Pitchfork: Interviews: ?uestlove: 15 Years →
Aug 19th
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Aug 18th
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Aug 18th
“Below is the complete list of the tour dates. Tickets will be available for...”
– Ryan Adams Announces Acoustic Tour Dates :: Music :: News :: Paste
Aug 16th
Emailer Newsletter Designs - a set on Flickr →
wow.
Aug 16th
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rickwebb's tumblrmajig: Departure →
rickwebb: It is with a mixture of sadness and excitement to announce that I will be leaving The Barbarian Group this month. It’s been an amazing ten years, and I am totally proud of everything we’ve accomplished, and look forward The Barbarians continuing to kill it and rocking out some of the best shit on… Mazel Tov and look forward to seeing you at your SF tour stop (oooh, you should...
Aug 15th
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Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - The New York Times →
 And to those who argue that higher rates hurt job creation, I would note that a net of nearly 40 million jobs were added between 1980 and 2000. You know what’s happened since then: lower tax rates and far lower job creation. Since 1992, the I.R.S. has compiled data from the returns of the 400 Americans reporting the largest income. In 1992, the top 400 had aggregate taxable income of $16.9...
Aug 15th
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Aug 14th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-7) →
Chris Bathgate (25) AWOLNATION (6) Radiohead (5) Fresh Millions (5) Mariachi El Bronx (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Engaging News Hungry Audiences Tweet by Tweet: An... →
Actual interesting analysis of twitter behavior.
Aug 4th