February 2012
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Parm
If the meatball parmigiana hero were a Southern dish, scholars from Chapel Hill, N.C., to Tallahassee, Fla., would hold academic conferences every six months just to talk about it.
If it were a Florentine dish, the Four Seasons would have it on the menu for $95, or $55 without white truffles.
But it is an Italian-American dish. It is at home on Wooster Street in New Haven, Atwells Avenue in...
“Ms. Bennett, when asked what statement Tumblr was making by bringing her and Mr....”
– NYTimes.com | Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself
It seems to me that a more effective way of “celebrat[ing] creativity and innovation” among one’s users would be making it easier for those users to find one another, not via “curation” but by, say, a search function that actually works, and by...
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January 2012
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Why is pop music the only art form that still inspires such arrantly stupid discussion? The debates that surround authenticity have no relationship to popular music as it’s been practiced for more than a century. Artists write material, alone or with assistance, revise it, and then present a final work created with the help of professionals who are trained for specific and relevant production...
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I am a lousy copywriter →
British-born David Ogilvy was one of the original, and greatest, “ad men.” In 1948, he started what would eventually be known as Ogilvy & Mather, the Manhattan-based advertising agency that has since been responsible for some of the world’s most iconic ad campaigns, and in 1963 he even wrote Confessions of an Advertising Man, the best-selling book that is still to this day considered...
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