On My Quest To Get Rich From Viral Cat Videos
Who is this mysterious one known only as "Shepherd" and what secrets of going viral does he or she know?
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On My Three-Month Facebook Dialogue With A Scammer From Malaysia Pretending To Be A Beautiful Woman
Teddy "Lowtax" Wayne. Can't wait for The Awl's Photoshop Phriday!
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On Class, Strategy And Shopping: What Happened At Occupy Black Friday
@davetar "A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?" -- Elenor Mills, "Women and the Myth of Consumerism," 1969 (1969!)
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On 'Pet Sematary': A Reminder That Zombie Cats Make Terrible Pets
Oh, man, It, where they all have sex? Because it'll help them get out of the sewer or something? I remember reading in 6th grade and showing up for school the next day, unable to make eye contact with anybody. I think the only Stephen King thing that fucked with me more was his short story The Mist.
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On What Is Your Top Anxiety Dream?
Sending an email, need to bcc someone. But where is the bcc field? WHERE IS THE BCC FIELD?!
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On The Weird, Frictionless Politics Of 'Parks And Recreation'
Working on my pitch for The Awl: Closed for Business: Why The Office Is a Terrible Primer for How to Run a SMB
After that, will tackle the problem of Community not accurately reflecting the changing needs of higher education in America.
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On The Copy, Paste, Rewrite School of Reporting
As much as I'd love to pile on TechCrunch here, it doesn't look like a C&Ped press release to me. Instead, looks like Schonfeld was working from notes of a phoner with co-founder. The line "Our business model is similar to Eventbrite" seems more like someone jotting down a quote while on the phone, and very unlike language used in most press releases.
Sloppy as hell, and hilarious that it's still up there, uncorrected, 18 hours later, but probably not just copy pasta.
(Sidebar: The Facebook commenting regime at TC has made people so annoyingly nice -- in the old days there would be commenters baying for blood. Now it's just a bunch of congrats, and one person noting the error and kindly suggesting how it could be changed. Boooooooring.)
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On 15 Other Secrets Your Waiter Will Never Tell You
Bob Powers on The Awl. Finally.
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On Must-Reads: "The AOL Way" (To Create Spam Labor Camps)
And to think I once envied your spot writing for NBCBayArea.com. No, for reals, I thought it would have been a step up. Which it would have been, for me.
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On I Have Thoughts About Commenting Systems!
Disqus is a pain in the ass on the admin and implementation side, though have no idea how much your current system is a pain in the ass.
Currently in the middle of a migration to Livefyre*, and it's actually pretty great? Like, I didn't know there could be a great commenting system, but there you go. Importing avatars and old comments has been pretty easy (the pain has been exporting them from Disqus).
Facebook does not seem like a good fit for you guys.
Alt: one Tripod Guestbook for The Awl. Could dig up the code from my old Shadowrun Fan Pages Ring.
*Worst name ever in an industry filled with shitty, shitty names. My Christian screamo band in college opened up for Livefyre.