music

Fuck. You.

food

Some stories around 4food's beta launch last night: CNET | Eater | Thrillist| Gizmodo | NYT | SlyOyster. We open full time on September 9.

media

Wait, did everyone read NYT's takedown of The Economist? (And can anyone believe that sentence exists?) UPDATE FROM CJR for anyone who questioned whether this was actually a takedown.

media

Kevin Kelly asked me "What is your favorite magazine story of all time?" for this awesome list. It is exactly the kind of question that I should have an answer to, but don't. What's missing?

media

Mark Coatney, of the much-beloved Newsweek Tumblr, is quitting to go work for... Tumblr.

media

On the state of big media and whether journalism is dying:

More of my blathering here.

online

I was thinking this morning about how I can remember exactly where I was the first time I saw Napster. (One of the IT guys at work showed it to me. It was mesmerizing.) This got me thinking about other online apps/phenomena that I can recall seeing for the first time with precise clarity. Here's my list of I Know Exactly Where I Was When I First Saw...

• Napster
• Google Maps
• Friendster
• Hot Or Not
• Wikipedia
• YouTube
• Dodgeball
• Foursquare
• Chatroulette
• 4chan
• Bro Icing
• Netscape browser
• The Paris Hilton Sex Video
• lonelygirl15
• Goatse.cx
• 2 Girls, 1 Cup

And for whatever reason, some things not on this list:

• Facebook
• MySpace
• eBay
• PayPal
• iPhone
• Gawker
• Digg
• AOL
• Flickr
• Firefox
• Chocolate Rain
• Rickrolling
• Any video with a cat

Yours?

internal

A couple interviews I've done recently: Business Insider interview about KSM and Eater interview about the restaurant we're launching.

celeb

Your favorite Twitter account for the next five minutes: @tobangscarjo. That is, Things I Would Do To Bang Scarlett Johansson. Funnier than it should be, including: "Mumblecore marathon" and "Name my kid Courtney Love."

design

Excuse the design wonkery, but msnbc.com's new story pages are amazingly ambitious.

music

This is a video of video being taken as Sleigh Bells performs at Vice's Creator's Project yesterday.

online

Login Is Not A Verb.... dot-com. Oh shutup.

tech

YouTube wins case against Viacom. Somewhat surprising.

online

Is Digg dying? I say maybe! (Not really.)

books

Brett Easton Ellis' sequel to Less Than Zero comes out today: Imperial Bedrooms.

tech

I don't know which part of this interview with Fred Wilson I like most (all of which is packed with accidents of success), but I'll pick this one:

How did you start blogging?
I was at a cocktail party at Nick Denton's house several years ago and the founders of Moveable Type were at the party. They convinced me to blog, so I went home, set up a blog and started blogging.

comedy

Whoa, Olivia Munn is the new Daily Show correspondent.