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After a year in which we saw a number of high-profile gay-rights victories, including the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the legislative...
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by Joan Didion
Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to...
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Susan Sontag in a bear suit.
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In this photo from The New York Observer, Former Philadelphia police Captain Ray Lewis, sits in zip cuffs...
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A Thanksgiving cartoon to get you ready. Don’t forget to enter this week’s caption contest: http://nyr.kr/gDMJeM
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Karen Cahn, lawyer, New York, New York. “I don’t know how it’s gonna end, but it has to start, right?”
On Tuesday, Martin Schoeller photographed...
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Harper was very interested in this sewer cover during our walk this morning. I’m hoping it’s more of a Narnia situation than a dead body situation....
“Effective social media content is educational or entertaining. People don’t really want to hear about your products. Your website already does that.”
Nevermind Radian6’s hamburger analogy (it is World Vegan Month, after all).
“Brands also have a different way to communicate with fans than they do on Facebook, where messages are spliced into a users’ News Feed. On Unthink, there’s a separate section on users’ profile pages just for communicating with businesses. Users decide what companies they want to communicate with, what type of messages they want to receive and how often they want to receive them. Then, when they choose to interact with a brand, they’re rewarded for their engagement with points that can be used towards discounts and offers from the brand in question.”
I unthink this could be very cool.
Love this: Michelle Obama sends her first tweet. Too bad it’s not for her own account called @GunsofSteel.
“There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic. It must be like having a comet in your backyard, a piece of the universe that is dazzling and untouchable right outside your door. But animals live and die and breed and feel pain and can inflict pain. There is no excuse for any individual to own them, period.”
Great New Yorker post on the Zanesville animals by Susan Orlean. Read the rest here.
Why Content for SEO? Because I said so.
Oh, and a lot of other people.
“The next thing I’m going to do is carve one of the longer gourds into a perfect replica of the Mayflower as a shout-out to our Pilgrim forefathers.”
