February 2012
10 posts
“Before commenting for this story, and after having been informed of much of the...”
– New York Fair Organizers Trade Blows via French Journalism
I should also note that if the opening dashboard is any indication, I have very little overlap with the average Pinterest user, who is interested in:
- Home cooking with processed foods (though I ate enough hamburger helper and the like growing up to appreciate the 200 casseroles you can make out of Ritz crackers)
- Very elaborate braided hairstyles (I have long hair and can’t braid...
"It's no surprise that women use Pinterest more... →
I think if a guy had said this, there would probably be a big Internet throw-down. (If it’s true, however, I’m severely disappointed that my “Make the Observer Pink to Attract More Female Readers” hasn’t changed the ratio of male/female subscribers, which is still fairly dude-heavy.)
But I also think Pinterest’s success has more to do with early adoption by a...
I shamelessly indulged my ongoing obsession with Paul Bogaards’ [awesome] Tumblr and Twitter feed** and assigned a story on it. Kat Stoeffel reports:
In the early hours of Jan. 24, the 51-year-old executive director of publicity and marketing for Knopf posted “The Hierarchy of Book Publishing,” a top-100 ranking of his colleagues and competitors, on his personal Tumblr. Far from a...
Lay off the Social Media Experts | Betabeat —... →
rickwebb:
I mean “lay off” as in “lay off, man, quit harshing my gig” and not “fire.” It’s a double entendre, designed to rope in the skeptical reader. Wink wink.
I wonder, actually, if this whole “social media experts are dumb” thing is some sort of tech cultural self resentment complex. It’s a thing I do, and it’s easy for me, so it’s worthless and anyone that does that for a living is dumb...
“One of the things I will talk about that no President has talked about before is...”
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If you’re planning on having sex tonight, just remember that Rick Santorum does not approve — unless you’re trying to make a baby. (via cajunboy)
What this tells me is that Rick Santorum is obviously lousy in bed. Which I would have suspected anyway.
Interns wanted: Commercial Observer
So Observer Media Group is launching a new trade mag about commercial mortgages and we’re looking for a real estate reporting intern. Here’s the description:
The Commercial Observer, a weekly newspaper focused on New York City’s commercial real estate industry, is seeking an intern with an interest in learning more about the real estate industry’s most powerful land barons and the ...
“We celebrate and cherish our cats. We are male.... →
Wherein Adrianne Jeffries goes on a tour of random meetups—including the “male cat lovers” meetup.
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The spot paintings are like an avant-garde art... →
New Observer columnist Emma Allen adds a witty layer to our flood-the-zone coverage of Spot Painting Mania, resolving to stare at a spot painting for half an hour to see if it got any better with time. (Spoiler: it did not.)
The New York Observer, one year in
I started at the New York Observer a year ago this week as editor in chief and editorial director of Observer Media Group, and it’s been a fantastic year. We introduced a lot of changes, launched several new properties and gained some nice momentum in expanding the Observer editorially and on the business side. Here’s a rundown of what’s happened in the last twelve months:
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