May 2013
“The media of my childhood, mostly weekly television shows and overused VHS...”
– From Here You Can See Everything - The Morning News
“They always say God is in the truth, and I’ve ended loneliness and been able to...”
– Mary Karr
“What happened over the weekend? At 8:34 on Friday night, Kanye West tweeted. He...”
– Kanye West Stands Alone : The Record (via npr)
How Publishers Organize for Social Era →
joshsternberg:
While social rarely provides direct revenue, publishers see social media teams as vitally important.
Publishers are seeing social as a big traffic driver across the board, but the question remains how to organize for this.
For some very socially savvy publishers like a Mashable, this can mean a team of five-strong and a detailed strategy for matching pieces of content to the...
Officer Serrano's Hidden Camera →
Long before NYPD officers talked about 250s, the act of an officer stopping a civilian on the street and patting him down was known as a “Terry stop.” In 1968, the Supreme Court ruled in Terry v. Ohio that a police officer could stop and frisk someone on the street even if he had no probable cause to arrest him; all cops needed was “reasonable suspicion” of criminal activity. In New York City,...
mar-see-ah asked: Frances Ha is SO GOOD. See it immediately.
“Koppelman: In the last poker scene of Rounders, Matt Damon’s character —...”
– The oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker, in which Chris Moneymaker turned $39 into $2.5 million - Grantland
Beer and Loathing | The Classical →
We were somewhere among the back half of the crowd watching Macklemore when the girl in front of us, who had been screaming something and proudly holding her beer aloft while standing up on the wobbly, thin fabric center of one of those fold-up canvas deck chairs, went down like a brick.
The chair had buckled below her. A guy nearby, wearing a white tee that bore an American flag and the text...
“Samsung is being treated as a winner for selling 10 million Galaxy S4s in four...”
– The Macalope — Loose talk (via macsmiley)
Required Reading: New York City F.C. →
Here on EOS, we covered the many reasons why New York City F.C. spells the end of the Flushing Meadows Park initiative and also gave reaction from both the New York Cosmos and the Red Bulls.
Here are a few more links to go with your morning coffee:
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The Daily News says New York is once again ready for professional soccer. -
Dana Rubenstein at Capital New York expands on why Flushing is...
thegreg:
irunfrombears:
usatodaysports:
There’s a new MLS team in NYC. Yankees, Man City partner on New York City Football Club. Here are details: http://usat.ly/14trmQw
And here’s to hoping they don’t play like the other MLS teams.
Hey buddy - New York already has a MLS team and it’s good enough to be sitting in the #1 spot atop the eastern conference.
Nevermind that NYCFC...
How to help tornado victims | News OK →
The Oklahoma Red Cross is asking people to donate by texting Red Cross to 90999 which will be a $10 donation, spokesman Ken Garcia said.
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Feed The Children is coordinating with other organizations and authorities at the scene to deliver disaster supplies as requests are received.
Cash donations to help with relief efforts can be made by phone at 800-627-4556 or online at...
“MySpace was where you went in the past, WordPress and Movable Type were where...”
– The One-Person Product – Marco.org
tumblr meetup a complete success
lauren:
sharingtime:
I’m still a little giddy from the night, so excuse the high word count.
I show up at 9:15. I figure if I organize this thing, I should probably be there when it starts. No one is here yet (obviously, this is New York and all). I sit at the bar, fiddle with my blackberry and try to act like I have friends.
It’s 9:30. Still no sign of anyone. Clearly I have no friends....
“The fact is I really do respect the press. I recognize that the press and I have...”
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President Obama
via not now, i’m dancing.:
“You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job...”
– When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
Priceless.
(via lauraemily)
Yahoo Tumblrs for Cool: Board Approves $1.1... →
hayekd:
Done (just like we said).
Here’s hoping it doesn’t become the next Flickr.
“I thought it was weird when you picked us to make a documentary. But, all in...”
– Pam Beesley Halpert (via happycap)
