May 2013
17 posts
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to...
– Anne Lamott (via quote-book)
5 Facts About Tumblr →
pewresearch:
Yahoo! today confirmed that it’s buying 6-year-old blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. Who uses Tumblr? We consulted the recent report on social-media demographics from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project to find out.
Exclamation: Your World, in Full Resolution →
yahoo:
By Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!
Photos tell the stories — stories we’re inspired to relive, share with our friends, or capture simply to express ourselves. Collecting these moments is a part of our everyday. Since 2005, Flickr has become synonymous with inspiring imagery. Today, we’re thrilled…
April 2012
1 post
March 2012
3 posts
I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.
– Hoban “Wash” Washburne - Serenity (via mrjoshua79)
February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
8 posts
Nothing in this world that’s worth having comes easy.
– Scrubs (via laceofpearls)
I begin to realise how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught...
– My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl (via teeaah)
519. The best way to ruin an apology is with an...
December 2011
4 posts
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a...
– Dalai Lama XIV (via brunomarinho)
November 2011
17 posts
The greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my...
– Audrey Hepburn (via joseph-schlichting)
Wikileaks Broke, Will Stop Publishing →
futurejournalismproject:
View ReadWriteWeb:
Days after the announcement that the US troops would be withdrawn from Iraq, Wikileaks announced today that it will cease publication of new leaked documents to focus on rebuilding its finances.
The organization alleges that Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union have refused to process or withheld 95% of the attempted donations...
Future Journalism Project: 8 All-Time Great... →
futurejournalismproject:
Last week Dan from the Electric Typewriter asked us what some of our favorite all-time magazine articles are. I replied with this list of eight and then asked about his. He replies below. — Michael
First of all thanks for the excellent reading list, classics indeed. As requested, here are…
Future Journalism Project: 8 All-Time Great... →
futurejournalismproject:
Last week Dan from the Electric Typewriter asked us what some of our favorite all-time magazine articles are. I replied with this list of eight and then asked about his. He replies below. — Michael
First of all thanks for the excellent reading list, classics indeed. As requested, here are…
In other words, imagine Groupon as a crack dealer.... →
Too bad people didn’t fall in love at the same pace, at the same time, for the...
– Eric Jerome Dickey (the novel Pleasure)
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
– Carl Jung (via psychotherapy)
This is Bach. And Bach, more than any other music, and these pieces, more than...
You are underestimating the future. You are fretting about the now; worrying...
– Steve Jobs (via shiv53)
Sherlock Holmes And The Adventure Of The Impudent... →
The universe of Sherlock Holmes has expanded well beyond the confines of the stories in which he appears. Partially to blame for this is the wholly new, very specialized and possibly unique brand of literary criticism—known as the Great Game—that has grown up around him. The Game originated in a paper delivered at Oxford in 1911 by Ronald Knox. In this paper, as Michael Dirda relates in his...
With Vaccines, Bill Gates Changes The World Again →
Sitting with Gates, overlooking the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s gleaming new $500 million campus, full of glimmering reflecting pools and glass edifices, it’s possible to see a future with exponentially less pain and suffering. It’s also a remarkably incisive exercise in getting inside the brain of one of history’s greatest business visionaries. By dissecting with him and his wife,...
Instead of moving nuclear material in armored, well-defended convoys,...
– The Ally From Hell (via theatlantic)