December 2009
Jim Lehrer's Rules about Journalism →
youmightfindyourself:
Do nothing I cannot defend.
Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.
Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.
Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am.
Assume the same about all people on whom I report.
Assume personal lives are a private matter, until a...
The only song you'll need for the rest of your... →
(via nickdouglas)
Old School Hip Hop Tapes →
jratlee:
jhnbrssndn:
errorgorilla:
An online archive of one man’s personal collection of tapes dating back to the very early days, all available to download.
yes.
2006 (A Digital Decade, Part 7/10) →
mikearauz:
This is Part 7 (Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6,) of a personal look back at the sites, tools, behaviors, platforms, and technologies that have changed my life in…
“The video looks great! Now upload it to youtube and make it go viral.”
– (via clientsfromhell)
“People are good and trustworthy and generally just concerned with getting...”
– Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess (via rahmin) (via jayparkinsonmd)
…Previously (via soupsoup)
“That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of...”
– Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (via meaghano)
Just do it.
fragmentarium:
The Cult of Done Manifesto, by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark
There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
...
The 10 American Ideas of the Decade - The Atlantic... →
(via fragmentarium)
“If there’s one thing that I’ve learned, it’s that balance is overrated.”
– via Illuminated Mind (via amber-rae)
"i like your glasses and your tote"
keeptheballrolling:
ms. mooney (aka @wearethedigitalkids) trying to distract me via flattery/truth-telling while she keeps me waiting at work. it ALMOST didn’t work………
Um, Matthew… it worked:)
tesslynch:
reneenay:
Sondre Lerche covering...
Yes, and...
youmightfindyourself:
spaceships:
Six years ago, I moved from Chicago to New York to work at Saturday Night Live. I packed up and was going through my things to see what I would take with me and what I’d leave behind. I found an orange folder—a regular school folder—in a bookshelf. As soon as I saw it, I knew what it was. There were quotes written all over the front of it. Some of them were:...
WatchI want to see this.
I like to think that somewhere out there, on a...
airplanes:
(I Wrote This For You)
Hurts my heart.
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (via airplanes)
“There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the...”
– (via jleeeb) (via serpentsbeneaththeirhoods) (via whyyesactually) (via airplanes)
“Can you make the font more dangerous?”
– (via clientsfromhell)
