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- Department of BrilliantApril 6 2008
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Just discovering the amazing photos of Brit Peter Ashworth, and the spiky pleasures of online magazine and blog Coilhouse.net, where I could read and read (and gaze at the super pictures).
If you have to be up wayy too early on a Saturday, these are a consolation. - Quote of the DayApril 6 2008
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"Instead of stressing yourself out and checking Monster.com and Mediabistro and then dashing around the city, try this: simply sit with a cup of chamomile tea in your apartment, read the Want Ads in the newspaper, and circle them with a big red pencil, just like they did back in the 80's before there were fax machines! Your jobless, low-income heart rate will slow in a matter of minutes, and if you recycle the paper, you lessen your carbon footprint!
It's funny because this is similar advice to what I am telling my more, um...globally ambitious friends... when I was at Davos last week. While there, as a keynote speaker, I imparted the wisdoms of Slow Wealth. I taught them how to knit, make windmills, meditate, and have a nurturing sense of patience while they slash jobs and cut back on benefits for their employees."
--from Slow Unemployed, The Underminer, published at Gawker
Susan sez: read The Underminer by Mitch Albo with Virginia Heffernan and laugh your head off between poignant sobs
Via
- Neil Budde goes to DailyMe, news aggregator and start pageApril 6 2008
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As Paid Content and other report, former Yahoo! news lead Neil Budde's now made public his move to DailyMe, a personalized news startup, as president and chief product officer. This has got to be a global play, as the founder is Eduardo Hauser, former founder of AOL Latin America, another Miami-area based enterprise.
It's tempting to wonder if Budde talked to NowPublic, which reportedly has been auditioning CEOs for at least eight months before landing with DailyMe. Interesting, there was some tremendous talent at AOL Latin America, including Peter Blacker, who is now at Telemundo; it looks Neil is joining a strong and motivated team that knows how to execute (and he certainly will have ideas.)
At his site, Neil Budde, Online News Visionary, Neil shares some thoughts on the new gig:
"I believe that we are still at the early stages of digital news consumption. The ways in which users like you will find, read or watch and interact with news are still evolving and no single approach to meeting your needs will suffice. Being totally focused on translating your needs and interests into an amazing product will make - Quote of the DayApril 6 2008
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"New love is like snow: it covers everything up beautifully. Marriage counseling is like shoveling."
--Lois Smith Brady, writing about marriage, compatability and marital counseling in the NYTimes. - The wild trail of Saturday surfing, aka synchronicity surfaces everytimeApril 6 2008
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So I am sitting here, dog snoring at my feet, devouring Coilhouse.
Reading about the staff--two (apparently) LA Russians (I have been hanging with some Russians, recently), others. Diving into zoetica's flicker stream and blog, Nadya Lev's amazing photos (and blog).
I'm slowly working my way through the pictures, thinking of how my friend Sarah Dopp would like the delicious androgny of some of the images, and I see that one of them has already been selected by Sarah for genderfork, her photo/gender queer site.
And does that mean the the Net is a big place a small place, or just a place? You decide.
(PS And if you are interested in questions of ge
