June 2012
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“Scott Smith: CP Guest Editor, June A huge thanks to Nick and Nadine of...”
– Coudal Partners Scott Smith: CP Guest Editor, June Hey, that’s me! Look for clever asides and links from me at the Fresh Signals blog all month long.
Jun 1st
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“I don’t mean that the people who latched on to this particular meme are...”
– There Is No Miami Zombie Apocalypse, Just Mentally Ill People With No Safety Net
Jun 1st
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May 2012
14 posts
“Folks who decry the idea of subscriber fees argue that paywalls won’t work, and...”
– David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on the Times-Picayune cuts : CJR Smart people aren’t advocating the substitution of previous paid models for journalism that don’t work online in favor of amateurs/hobbyists so maybe take that straw and use it for something other than...
May 25th
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“The Denver Post is eliminating its copy desk and moving away from an...”
– Denver Post, Bay Area News Group revamp story editing with fewer copy editors | Poynter. Oh! Hi, future. A version of this will likely surface in every other form of reported media.
May 24th
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May 24th
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“Surprisingly, Dan stated that they had changed DC’s policy in this regard. And...”
– DC Comics To Switch The Sexual Orientation Of An Established Character | Bleeding Cool There’s a turn starting to happen in this conversation. From “one of our most prominent gay characters” to “one of our most prominent characters will be gay.” Pretty sure DC’s...
May 21st
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“Mr. Ricketts has become an increasingly active player in Republican politics...”
– G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama - NYTimes.com That would be Joe Ricketts, the founder/CEO of news site DNAinfo.com which launches a Chicago version very soon. (And he’s the father of Tom Ricketts who owns the Cubs.)
May 17th
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May 15th
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“The station’s a lot like Wrigley Field itself—charming, if you can ignore...”
– The Sheridan station: The forgotten Cubs CTA stop | The Bleader
May 11th
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“But sitcoms, for example — or let’s take a step back — the phenomenon of rock...”
– Cheezburger’s Ben Huh says news organizations should think like teenagers if they want to survive » Nieman Journalism Lab There was very little that was “visually appealing” about rock music on television until the 1970s. Not to mention all the rock stars prior to that who were not...
May 8th
May 5th
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“Two events last year symbolized Playboy’s reversal of fortune over the past...”
– ‘There are few things sadder than throwing your own going-away party’: Playboy leaves Chicago I wrote this/read this at The Paper Machete last weekend. You can read it at WBEZ’s site or at mine. (WBEZ has the audio.)
May 3rd
May 3rd
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“Cowley claimed his tweets were “satire.” If anything, this would be...”
– Joe Cowley, Sexism, and Title IX - The 312
May 2nd
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April 2012
20 posts
“I think the coverage of the Burge case is indicative of the failure of...”
– John Conroy’s ‘My Kind of Town’ at TimeLine Theatre - Chicago magazine
Apr 30th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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“Correction: April 26, 2012 An earlier version of the Samuel L. Jackson Movie...”
– How Samuel L. Jackson Became His Own Genre - NYTimes.com Or was it a hologram….?
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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“The magazine’s success was really unprecedented, and beyond my wildest...”
– Hefner says goodbye to Chicago - chicagotribune.com It’s quite notable that this history jumps from 1989 to the present day within a sentence. The heart of Playboy magazine - for good or for ill - is Hefner. While Playboy could not have started anywhere else, its identity has been driven by...
Apr 23rd
“Dumbness runs deep in our shallow campaigns sometimes. I am an American...”
– Is This The Dumbest Election Cycle Ever? - GQ on Politics
Apr 20th
“But, he warned, you need not just intelligence, but emotional intelligence to...”
– Buzzfeed CEO: Social Marketers Need to Tap Emotional Intelligence | Special: Digital Conference - Advertising Age
Apr 19th
Apr 18th
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“A writer’s brain is full of little gifts, like a piñata at a birthday party....”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do.
Apr 17th
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“Kartheiser: I don’t think the character does that to me, but I think that as a...”
– Mad Men’s Pete Campbell: An interview with Vincent Kartheiser - Slate Magazine Totally nails why Campbell is still sympathetic. Also this: “With success comes a level of sadness. You think, ‘I’ll reach this goal, and then I’ll feel a sense of completeness, of wholeness. I’ll feel...
Apr 16th
“The proposed expansion of public-private partnerships to rebuild Chicago would...”
– Critics of Emanuel’s infrastructure trust say it gives too much power to the mayor - chicagotribune.com What could possibly go wrong?
Apr 16th
Apr 11th
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“I’ve never cared much about Black Sabbath. Ozzy’s turned into a bit of a farce...”
– Lollapalooza 2012 | 10 acts we most want to see - Time Out Chicago That WOULD be pretty amazing and well worth whatever price Lollapalooza charges. Mostly because Ronnie James Dio died two years ago.
Apr 11th
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“A different interpretation of these events is that Twitter is not a bubbling...”
– Santorum Quits on the Same Day That [Blank]. Coincidence? The Atlantic Wire This must be why I like Twitter so much.
Apr 10th
“Don’t get The A.V. Club wrong. We love 4 a.m. bars. They’re a Chicago...”
– The 4 a.m. bar, or why Complex’s list of Chicago’s 25 douchiest bars is flawed |The A.V. Club Chicago
Apr 5th
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Apr 2nd
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“Then there’s that Church-State quandary. The old magazine business–editorial...”
– Editors and the ‘Cult of the Brand’ - WWD.com I don’t think we live in a world where editors can afford not to think like publishers.
Apr 2nd
“Where do we start? What is that cape/shawl? Why is this top a turtleneck? Is it...”
– Take a Tour of Debra Messing’s Remarkably Terrible Wardrobe on Smash — Vulture
Apr 2nd
March 2012
13 posts
“My alma mater is in the Sweet 16. They shouldn’t be there. A 13 seed. For...”
– How The Hell Did We Get Here? An Ohio Fan (Sorta) On Rooting (Maybe) For His School Because Of A Hot Tub (Definitely)
Mar 23rd
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“We start with a young man named Marvin Gresham Jr. He was arrested in December,...”
– In Cook County, the costs of catching a case | WBEZ Also: “The bank statement shows 8 charges for phone calls at $14.99 apiece. A third of Gresham and his fiance’s net worth was spent on those phone calls, and that’s from just one month. ‘Fifteen dollars is a lot.  It buys a meal in my...
Mar 23rd
“Last year the Sox’s marketing slogan was “All In.” This year it’s “Appreciate...”
– Chicago Baseball Preview: The Most Dismal Season in 30 Years? - Chicago magazine I’m a Sox fan and it’s hard to argue against that.
Mar 20th
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“In the most recent event, on Feb. 27, the 53-year-old funnyman posted a link to...”
– DREW CAREY’S MIDLIFE CRISIS: HIS BIZARRE BEHAVIOR REVEALED! - The National Enquirer Do you have two ears? Congrats, you are now an “insider.”
Mar 15th
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Out-of-context excerpts from SXSW panel...
“Our speakers are social technology hotties. They have Klout scores ranging from the high 60s to the high 80s—so these are leaders of the social media pack.”
Mar 10th
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SXSW 2012: Entertain or Fail - Brands as...
Anthony Batt Katalyst Thrashlab YouTube channel Allen DeBevoise Machinima Ads in the gaming space convert better than traditional media - stats on this? New user-generated model drives creative careers and opens up opportunity in the marketplace Brands need to partner with people who make content, cannot do it themselves because they are too focused on their primary product. Goal is to...
Mar 10th
Out-of-context excerpts from SXSW panel...
“The sharp-tongued @BronxZoosCobra gained 200,000 followers as she live-tweeted her escape from the zoo. She is the second-most followed animal on Twitter and will be the conference’s first reptile speaker.”
Mar 9th
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Malort discussion at Frank in Austin
You can take a shot of anything. - @chavoen That’s like saying ‘You can take any kind of bullet’ but it’s what happens afterward that’s the problem. - (Then we walked out of Frank and ran into a pedicab offering free BBQ from @Uber. This is why we’re fat.)
Mar 8th
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(I think this joke works way better when you view the site itself.)
Mar 6th
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“When it came time for a 22-year-old named Jeremy Hammond to talk, his blue eyes...”
– The Hacktivist - Chicago magazine - July 2007 - Chicago Hammond and five others were charged this morning with conspiracy as part of a crackdown on the LulzSec group, an offshoot of Anonymous.
Mar 6th
“The scouts did not mince any words when talking to reporters about the theft:...”
– Thief Robs Girl Scouts | TM Daily Post “We’re going to find you.”
Mar 6th
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“It seems President Obama finally decided it wasn’t such a great idea to...”
– G8 moving to Camp David = one less summit to protest | Bleader
Mar 5th
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“Plus, there’s the comforting familiarity of his bickering tension that...”
– Dane Cook is a smarmy misogynist douchebag (on NBC) | The A.V. Club
Mar 1st
February 2012
30 posts
“…the combination of Monkees reruns and copious airings of “Weird...”
– Davy Jones, R.I.P. - New York Music - Sound of the City Today in: Sentences That Perfectly Describe My Life.
Feb 29th
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“The youngish guy is trying to get himself and two buddies into the Vanity Fair...”
– Vanity Fair Oscar party a star-studded dream - chicagotribune.com
Feb 27th
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