Month: February 2009
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Treating Food Like Wine
I don’t like pineapple, melons, or kiwi. I don’t like cottage cheese, either. But I’ve tried all of them in 24 hours. Here’s why. You remember the face you used to make when you had wine as a kid? The grimace, and the way adults around you chuckled? And do you remember how you learned…
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Media Hacks #3
Mitch, Hugh, Chris, and I got together last week at the Carnegie Deli in New York to record a Media Hacks episode during O’Reilly’s TOC Conference. You can listen to it here (and subscribe with iTunes here). Everyone else ordered pastrami on rye. I ordered the club sandwich. You can see the results in the…
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We have seen the enemy
I spent the last three days in New York at Tools of Change, a book conference, talking with people in the publishing industry. I did this mostly in bars, which are the places you are most likely to hear the truth, especially late at night. Only now, back home, do I realize: On the web,…
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Radiohead * Jay-ZzzZz = Jaydiohead
It’s not bad so far. Still not as great as (impossible to find) The White Albulum though. (Here’s a taste tho.) Anyway, just fucking download it. You need something new. (From the Assimilated Negro.)
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How do we solve the guest post problem?
Guest posts. We’ve all seen them. They may bother you, they may not. Too often, they are a plague on otherwise great blogs. What’s wrong with them? Simple: They aren’t written by the blogger I subscribed to. When I’ve subscribed, I like the content and the style of the founder, and more often than not…
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On Barbershops
All men know: There’s nothing in the world like a good shave. A good shave is like a fresh start. It’s the best start to your day, and it makes you feel like a million bucks. Unfortunately for me, I hate shaving; my first love is for barbers. But a good barber is hard to…
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Here we go again: Finishing 52 books in 2009
They say most people read a book a year. I read a book a week; or at least, I try to. Every year, I fail, and every January, I start again. While long-time readers will know that I’ve been attempting this feat every year, you may not know that I shift the rules every time.…
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This is too good not to blog
Kanye West’s entourage: