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"Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast."
- Tom Freston
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rantnrave:// Checking out ALEX OF VENICE tonight at TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL. Congrats to @JAMIEPATRICOF and @LYNETTEHOWELL, the producers... Sleep and TV: The cure for everything...
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A few accumulated thoughts on media
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A few days back my friend Pip Coburn, who runs an investment advisory service, and his colleague Brynne Thompson asked me to discuss what I have learned about media after spending nearly 12 years on Gigaom, pretty much most of my working life in various aspects of media, and two decades on the internet.
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Secrets and Leaks: The Dilemma of State Secrecy
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The U.S. government commands few capabilities more potent than its power to declare information secret. Even when the judiciary and Congress exercise their checks-and-balances powers over the executive branch, the American secrecy machine still finds a way to shunt aside substantive discussions about a host of programs and policies.
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Serious Newspaper Journalism Is Not Over
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In most hand-wringing debates about the future of newspapers, high-quality journalism is seen as doomed by the Internet. The author—V.F.’s newest columnist—begs to disagree.
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Where Racists Breed Online
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The day after long-time white supremacist and anti-Semite Frazier Glenn Miller allegedly opened fire outside two suburban Kansas City Jewish centers, killing three people, he was denounced by the founder of Stormfront.org, one of the Internet's oldest and largest white nationalist forums. "We have enough of a problem with how we are portrayed without some homicidal whack job coming along and reinforcing that," Don Black told The Daily Beast at the time.
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Samsung
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As I sit here reading up on the Samsung-Apple trial I am noticing a key theme in just how Samsung works. Samsung, first and foremost, looks after itself. After which every ally is just another pawn. Given the indication that they see both Apple and Google as a threat make the rise of Samsung all the more terrifying.
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Coming out as a P*** Star
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What it's like to tell your friends, family, and romantic partners that you work in the adult entertainment industry
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Why Do We Watch Sports?
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Why do we watch sports? It's a simple question with a complicated answer. Sports are a huge entertainment business - the NFL alone generates at least $7 billion a year in television revenue - so it's easy to lose sight of their essential absurdity.
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On Kate Bush
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If Wuthering Heights makes you think of Kate Bush before Emily Bronte, read on: "She's someone you might have known at sixth-form college, or at your Saturday job (the artier kind, obviously: knick-knack stall at the local market); definitely a scream down the pub, with her packet of Silk Cut and pint of scrumpy.
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Is Record Store Day In Crisis? A Quietus Investigation
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Record Store Day 2014 is the biggest yet, with hundreds of exclusive new releases and reissues in shops this weekend. But as vinyl pressing plants struggle to keep up with demand, is the event's success in danger of harming independent labels - and even RSD itself? Phil Hebblethwaite investigates
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Why I Fixed Fights
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I fixed a lot of fights over the years. In two I didn't fix but should have, people paid heavily for my carelessness. Even though I set up Mitch "Blood" Green and Leon Spinks cushion-soft in their comeback fights, I managed to get one embarrassed and the other nearly killed.
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The Lost, Surprisingly Soulful Art of Corporate Identity
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Before corporations, entertainment companies, sports franchises, and political parties acquired "brand narratives," the notion of branding was a subset of a practice called "corporate identity." CI, as it was known, required companies and design firms to develop, refine, and maintain an integrated identity system defined by laws set down in a bible known as the graphic standards manual.
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Why I’m A Crabby Patty About AI And Cognitive Science
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I'm sorry if I am a grump about artificial intelligence. It just happens to be a subject on which our media frequently appears both insufficiently educated and unwilling to learn. My frustration stems from a basic category error, which can be boiled down to this: My cellphone is much better than my cellphone five years ago, ergo artificial intelligence/the Singularity/techno-utopia is right around the corner.
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Can Robot Musicians Play Songs That Entrance Human Ears?
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This story contains an interview with Tom Jenkinson, better known as electronic music artist Squarepusher. Tom "Squarepusher" Jenkinson talks more like an engineer than most engineers do, and Pitchfork has described his sound as angry-jazz-droids-run-amok. So when Jenkinson was asked to compose for a group of robot musicians called Z-Machines, he wasn't about to say no.
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Passwords are Obsolete
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I have 268 passwords on 268 different websites. At least that's what my password manager says. I actually stopped saving new passwords a while back, so the real number of passwords I should change now that Heartbleed has been revealed is even higher than that.
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The Dark and Dangerous World of Extreme Cavers
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On his thirteenth day underground, when he'd come to the edge of the known world and was preparing to pass beyond it, Marcin Gala placed a call to the surface. He'd travelled more than three miles through the earth by then, over stalagmites and boulder fields, cave-ins and vaulting galleries.
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A Prenup for Digital Privacy
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The breakup, makeup, and alleged breakup again of figure skater Johnny Weir and his husband, Victor Voronov, has captivated media and skating fans alike. The flamboyance Weir has long brought to his performances on the ice colored this story as well, from accusations of high-fashion theft to a brewing custody battle for the couple's dog Tema.
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Losing Yourself All Over Again
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An oral history of the '8 Mile' rap battles Few cities have as rich a cultural and sporting history as Detroit. From the '80s Pistons to Bob Seger, Eminem to Miguel Cabrera, the Motor City is a rich tapestry of compelling figures, unbelievable moments, and uniquely American ingenuity.
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Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation
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Illiteracy is the inability to read and write. Though the percent of sufferers has halved in the last 35 years, currently 15% of the world has this affliction. Innumeracy is the inability to apply simple numerical concepts. The rate of innumeracy is unknown but chances are that it affects over 50% of us.
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Fashion Wars: NBA Playoffs Are a Whole New Season, Starting with Players
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Calyann Barnett still remembers the e-mails and phone calls she received after NBA All-Star Weekend in 2009. Barnett, Dwyane Wade's personal stylist since 2007, had fitted him in bow ties, European-cut suits and colored eyeglass frames-unheard of at the time in the league. "We were doing our own little thing," Barnett said.
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100 best animated movies ever made
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Chances are the first movie you ever saw was animation. Exuberant, colorful and full of wonder, animation is the stuff of childhood. It introduces us to the magic of cinema, and there's no doubt that, as we researched the 100 best animated movies of all time, the nostalgia factor was overwhelming.
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Rage Against the Machine: A Brief History of Evil Movie Computers
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In 1818, around the time British "Luddites" retaliated against the textile industry's increasing use of power looms, Marry Shelley published the first edition of Frankenstein, her horror parable spun from the 19th century's plentiful scientific breakthroughs.
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The Private Lives of Public Bathrooms
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When Oprah Winfrey served on a Chicago jury in 2004, she couldn't go to the bathroom attached to the jury room unless her fellow jurors sang to drown out the noise. One of the songs they sang was Kumbaya. When Alexis Sanchez used the bathroom in her college dorm, she brought her iPod with her.
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The Soul of 'Scandal': How Shonda Rhimes Uses Music for TV's Most Dramatic Show
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During season three of ABC's hit show Scandal, a montage scene closes out the eighth episode, "Vermont is for Lovers, Too," where we see a gruesome murder, then one of the show's main characters Huck (Guillermo Diaz) insinuate he's going to torture his colleague Quinn (Katie Lowes), and Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) seeing her long-lost mother moments before the credits flash.
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When ‘Liking’ a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue
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Might downloading a 50-cent coupon for Cheerios cost you legal rights? General Mills, the maker of cereals like Cheerios and Chex as well as brands like Bisquick and Betty Crocker, has quietly added language to its website to alert consumers that they give up their right to sue the company if they download coupons, "join" it in online communities like Facebook, enter a company-sponsored sweepstakes or contest or interact with it in a variety of other ways.
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Pro sports teams cash in on their food monopolies.
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Not long ago, I gave in to my son's pleas and finally took him to a Brooklyn Nets game at the year-and-a-half-old Barclays Center. (He's not a Nets fan -- he's devoted to the Knicks, god help him, and vowed to root against the home team, but all his friends had been going and 5th-grade peer pressure, so.)
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WTF with Marc Maron: Episode 489 - Ivan Reitman
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Ivan Reitman finds himself in the garage days just days after his son Jason sat down for his own WTF. The elder Reitman sheds some more light on the relationship with his filmmaker son and provides Marc with a detailed overview of his impressive career in show business, leading up to his latest film Draft Day.
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