My studious inattention to the blogosphere usually nets me nothing better than awkward silences with the foursquare crowd. Every once an awhile though, it pays off. Like this week, I managed to miss the whole Cheetah dust-up. Then someone on team feminist had to ruin my blissful ignorance by actually telling me about the controversy. Hamilton’s right, Spencer Morgan won the internet with his formulation. Fellow ink-stained wretch, I salute you. Now the dispiriting part: what does it say—about our journalistic-inclined piece of internet—when it’s so easily baited and gamed by snappy breeze and high conceit? I’ll leave that question for sharper minds.
Matt Brittin, Google’s UK director, told a Society of Editors conference that Google did not need news content to survive. “Economically it’s not a big part of how we generate revenue,” he said.
It’s difficult to imagine what Google would actually be good for—besides a social networking and porn wasteland—without “news content.” (You might as well substitute “news content” for “anything of value.”) Think about it. No articles to source wiki entries; or to feed the aggregators; or Tumblr links. It’s enough to make you swoon. Ahistorical impossibility? If anyone can pull off a counter-revolution, it’s a gang of media barons.
Waris Ahluwalia, who according to the Observer is a fixture of some sort, wears a turban. He must be a truth teller.
“It’s a shift in mood,” he added. “I think we just went through a period of dirty glamour—you know, you’ve got it but you’re hiding it—and now it’s cool to have it again.”
Can someone wake me up when N+1 is gone again. That was a really nice couple of years. I can’t help but have the same reaction to them over and over; “are they kidding?” Of course, the answer comes quick enough. Not at all.
youngmanhattanite:
keithgessen:
Everybody’s all, “Gessen SHUDDUP you suck you Harvard Harvard Harvard sucks!!!!!!!!!” It’s like the Yale game all over again. And I didn’t even mention Harvard.
But you should see what that last post did for my Tumblarity. Better luck next year, suckers.
You can take your helmet and pads off now.
The fashion world has gone out of its way to court Tavi, who describes herself as a “tiny 13-year-old dork that sits inside all day wearing awkward jackets and pretty hats”. This month she is on the cover of Dasha Zhukova’s relaunched Pop magazine, interviewed by Pixie Geldof in Katie Grand’s new issue of Love, and has been pictured on the front rows of this season’s biggest fashion shows, with editors and celebrities seated behind her.
And there are 800 more words on this brilliant little person, Tavi Gevinson, from our friends at the Guardian, but no mention of what jumps out: JT Leroy.
“In Switzerland they have brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? - The cuckoo clock!” Until now…
Dignitas will offer assisted suicide to all nationalities, and to people with chronic, but not terminal illnesses, and – most controversial of all – to the mentally ill. The apparent speed with which Dignitas deals with its patients has also led to questions; they generally arrive in Switzerland, see a doctor, and die all in the same day.
Pretty ghastly.
The FBI felt it knew enough about the suspects and their whereabouts to delay the raids.
Certainly after the election might be considered “too late.” But who might be so cynical as to accuse the Bloomberg administration of manipulating a national security issues to ensure an even bigger landslide? After all, as everyone says, he’s not as bad as Giuliani.
