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Tag Archives: Reading
Now Reading: Internet ruining TV, write like Hemingway, dating apps, LeBron James in GQ, bullet wounds
A selection of stories I read around the Web today … How the Internet sucks the joy out of TV shows Vijith Assar had an interesting essay on Wired the other day about how the Internet, and how we align … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, blogging, blogs, Bret Easton Ellis, content, dating, digital media, Eric Church, Ernest Hemingway, films, GQ, LeBron James, mobile apps, music, Now Reading, Reading, relationships, screenwriting, social media, Spin, Tech, technology, television, TV, Twitter, Wired, writing
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Now Reading: Eric Church, Bill Murray’s career, Netflix vs. HBO, Michael Sam, amazing photos, Roger Angell
A selection of stories I read around the Web today … What did you read? Eric Church profile I stumbled across the profile linked above through this shorter post from Patrick Doyle in Rolling Stone on Eric Church, and both … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Murray, blogging, blogs, content, digital media, Eric Church, films, HBO, Internet, marketing, Media, Michael Sam, mobile, movies, music, Netflix, New York Times, news, NFL, Now Reading, online media, photography, photos, Reading, Roger Angell, Rolling Stone, Sports, television, The New Yorker, TV, Web
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David Sedaris’ “Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls,” part I
Next up is David Sedaris’ latest book of essays, “Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls,” and I ripped through the first 84 pages within a day or two of picking it up. First off: I have no idea what the title … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, blogging, blogs, book recommendations, book reviews, Books, comedy, content, David Sedaris, Essays, family, Memoirs, Reading, writing
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Vanished, part II: The end for the Arnett airmen
For part 1 of my “Vanished” review, click here. *** In the last “Vanished” post, the remarkable World War II book by Wil S. Hylton, I wrote that two things in particular would gnaw at me until they were resolved: … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, blogging, blogs, book recommendations, book reviews, Books, content, history, Media, Nonfiction, Reading, Vanished, war, Wil S. Hylton, World War II, writing, WWII
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Now Reading: Philip Seymour Hoffman, a better Twitter, CVS cigarettes, Amazon pilots
‘Now Reading’ is a collection and sharing of online stories and is meant for minimal consumption by the few readers of this blog. Topics include books, food, culture, photography, media and technology … there are no rules. Have a story … Continue reading
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Tagged actors, Amazon, blogging, blogs, content, culture, deaths, films, Forbes, movies, Now Reading, Philip Seymour Hoffman, pop culture, Reading, Tech, technology, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Twitter, Vulture, Wired, writing
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The archive of the Internet
Apropos of nothing, over the weekend I was thinking about the mere hours a significant amount of content is relevant on the Internet. It probably was spurred by the deluge of stuff around the Super Bowl and how something posted … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, blogs, Business, content, digital journalism, digital media, Ezra Klein, Internet, journalism, Media, New Media, New York Magazine, online media, Reading, social media, Vox Media, Web, writing
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Now Reading: The digital media bubble, American Hustle’s flaws, Brian Stelter’s rise, prayers
‘Now Reading’ is a collection and sharing of online stories and is meant for minimal consumption by the few readers of this blog. Topics include books, food, culture, photography, media and technology … there are no rules. Have a story … Continue reading
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Tagged American Hustle, blogging, blogs, Brian Stelter, Business, CNN, content, digital media, films, Internet, Media, mobile, movie reviews, movies, Now Reading, online journalism, online media, Reading, Slate, The New York Times, The New Yorker
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Is technology really driving us apart?
It’s become almost a cliché barb the anti-smartphone, anti-social media contingent keeps close anytime they see another person in another “social” situation staring at screen: Technology is making us a less social society at best and driving us completely apart … Continue reading
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Now Reading: 2013 writing advice, David O. Russell on film, Storyful and social media
‘Now Reading’ is a collection and sharing of online stories and is meant for minimal consumption by the few readers of this blog. Topics include books, food, culture, photography, media and technology … there are no rules. Have a story … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, blogging, blogs, content, digital journalism, digital media, Facebook, filmmaking, films, movies, Now Reading, Reading, social media, Storyful, The Atlantic, Twitter, writing, writing advice
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Now Reading: Inc, business, whiskey, American Hustle
‘Now Reading’ is a collection and sharing of online stories and is meant for minimal consumption by the few readers of this blog. Topics include books, food, culture, photography, media and technology … there are no rules. Have a story … Continue reading
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Tagged American Hustle, blogging, blogs, Business, content, digital media, ideas, Inc, innovation, Media, movie reviews, movies, Now Reading, Reading, Tech, Tech Crunch, The New Yorker, whiskey, writing
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