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Personal posts that are not project related. It is blog, I think we all know what a blog is.
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I have been following this story for some days now, and I can’t figure out why US companies and brands are standing up for freedom of speech. The worst offender in this, in my opinion, is Apple, the so-called champion of privacy and human rights in the tech industry. From Ars Technica: “The app has…
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The article is supposed to be about the 50 states PR move around the, then new, artist Sufjan Stevens. It is about that, but this is the piece that kills me: The tipping point came in late July. Pitchfork, the increasingly influential arbiter of indie (full disclosure: I am a contributor there), had given the album…
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In a way to get me to post things more often. I plan to do a song a day for the next month. Music to celebrate summer! If you follow me via email, I hope you continue to do so after a more frequent update cycle from yours truly. In my best attempt, I will…
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I find this disgusting. Yes, the brand violated Wikipedia’s Terms of Use, but more importantly, they promoted a company by violating the integrity of one of the few remaining ideals of the Internet. The brand and agency took pictures of athletes wearing the brand while trekking to famous locations around the world, including Brazil’s Guarita State…
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Amazing account of hiking through Chernobyl. Some of the details they recount are incredible, for instance, the levels of radiation at the same building being drastically different based on assumed conditions at the time of the explosion. Exhausted, we picked an apartment building at random and went in. Our initial thought was to camp on…