How Global Warming Lined the Streets of Omaha with Fountains of Flame | Motherboard.
RT @JDGsaid: Sometimes I get my sister’s Twitter handle (@rzgreenfield) mixed up with the RZA’s (@RZA). No surprise: both are rap assassins
RT @JDGsaid: Sometimes I get my sister’s Twitter handle (@rzgreenfield) mixed up with the RZA’s (@RZA). No surprise: both are rap assassins
via Gabriel Snyder’s Stellar faves http://twitter.com/rzgreenfield/status/295990414299779072
David Mamet’s @Newsweek cover story on gun control was “a bizarre, inaccurate rant,” says @mtomasky http://t.co/zB5aEymA
David Mamet’s @Newsweek cover story on gun control was “a bizarre, inaccurate rant,” says @mtomasky http://t.co/zB5aEymA
via Gabriel Snyder’s Stellar faves http://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/295951620792008704
Which gun would Jesus use? http://t.co/gsBtPdPn
Which gun would Jesus use? http://t.co/gsBtPdPn
via Gabriel Snyder’s Stellar faves http://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/295923548877369345
Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Courting Future Cable Subscribers, a Newspaper Reality Show, and a Saucy Ad Campaign
Two Harvard graduates are trying to reconcile students’ viewing habits with the desire of cable companies and programmers to be paid for wireless content; NBC is looking for newsmen and newswomen to star in a planned reality show; and WBEZ, the Chicago public radio station, is hoping that Chicagoans will help create a new generation of listeners.
via NYT > Television http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/the-breakfast-meeting-courting-future-cable-subscribers-a-newspaper-reality-show-and-a-saucy-ad-campaign/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Short Story Shorter: The Most Creative Uses Of Vine (So Far)
Can you tell a story in 6 seconds? A look at the tiny creations of the individual and brand users of Vine so far suggests… maybe.
Ernest Hemingway famously wrote a story that was 6 words long–“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”–and, as legend has it, called it his best work. Now, those prone to Instagramming and Tweeting and GIFing can see how much story they can pack into 6 seconds of video.
Twitter caused a mini sensation last week with the unveiling of its (iOS only, ugh) video-sharing app, Vine. The app allows users to create and share 6-second, looping videos. Users aren’t limited to making straight-up 6-second clips, though; they can also create stop-motion and other effects by capturing and editing a string of shorter snippets.
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Palin paid $15.85 per word at Fox: study http://t.co/OIuLMUbO via @POLITICO
Palin paid $15.85 per word at Fox: study http://t.co/OIuLMUbO via @POLITICO
via Gabriel Snyder’s Stellar faves http://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/295909259416322048
Barnes & Noble will close up to a third of its stores over the next decade
Barnes & Noble plans to close about twenty retail stores a year over the next ten years, the company’s retail CEO Marshall Klipper told the Wall Street Journal . Today, there are 689 Barnes & Noble stores nationwide, plus 674 college stores.
The WSJ notes that “the chain shut an average of about 15 stores a year in the past decade, but until 2009 it also was opening 30 or more a year,†with a peak of 726 stores in 2008. Klipper may have chosen to talk to the WSJ to show investors that the company has a plan. He said that fewer than 20 of the chain’s retail stores are unprofitable.
Barnes & Noble is threatened by the shift to online book shopping at Amazon. The company has rolled out a host of Nook e-readers and tablets that face stiff competition in a market dominated by Kindle e-readers and saturated with cheap tablets from Amazon, Google, Apple and others. Barnes & Noble just delivered a terrible holiday earnings report, showing Nook, BN.com and retail sales all down, with a particularly large decline in Nook device sales. The company plans to spin off the Nook and college stores into a separate unit called Nook Media, with Microsoft and Pearson both holding stakes.
When Borders, then the nation’s second-largest bookstore chain, went bankrupt and liquidated all its stores in 2011, it seemed as if it could be good news for Barnes & Noble, which would have a chance to grab former Borders customers. But it appears that former Borders customers largely switched their book buying over to Amazon.
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via paidContent http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/28/barnes-noble-will-close-up-to-a-third-of-its-stores-over-the-next-decade/
REPORT: MEDIA MATTERS gave bodyguard illegal weapons to guard founder Brock…
REPORT: MEDIA MATTERS gave bodyguard illegal weapons to guard founder Brock…
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GOP Opts for Capitulation and Survival on Immigration
The GOP wants to survive. That is one interpretation of the move toward amnesty and broad immigration reform spearheaded by a bipartisan group of senators today.
The other is that elections have consequences.
Four Republican and four Democratic senators are pushing a path to American citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants who would need to pay fines and taxes, and await government certification of tough border security. But these provisions are nothing more than political cover for what was unthinkable just a few months ago: Amnesty.
via Homepage http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/gop-opts-for-capitulation-and-survival-on-immigration-20130128