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New Cee-Lo

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

Fuck. You.

4food

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

I Hate Your Success

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 CST

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.

Best Magazine Story Ever

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 CST

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?

This Was Amazing Last Night

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 CST

The Social Network Trailer

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:00:00 CST

TRAILER IS OUT!

If You Needed Another Sign About The End Of Weekli

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 CST

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

Journalism Is Doing Just Fine

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 CST

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

More of my blathering here.

Do You Remember Where You Were?

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 CST

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?

A Self-Promotey Excuse For Content

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:00:00 CST

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

Things I Would Do...

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 CST

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."

New Story Pages

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

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

Video of Video

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

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

Login Is Not A Verb

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

Somewhere

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

That Lawsuit You Forgot

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

YouTube wins case against Viacom. Somewhat surprising.

Is Digg Dying?

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

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

Imperial Bedrooms

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

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

Freddie

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

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.

Oliva Munn Breaks

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

Whoa, Olivia Munn is the new Daily Show correspondent.

Sorta Kinda Maybe Correction

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

NYT posts correction on M.I.A. story.

Clay Shirky: What I Read

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

Clay Shirky: What I Read. (Oh yeah, this happened. It's hanging in my living room.)

moot on TED

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

moot's TED talk. Previously: interview with moot.

DJ Rana

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

CNN has a piece on DJ Rana, filmed at my birthday party last week.

Deep Focus

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 CST

Soft Skull is doing a series of books called Deep Focus, which is similar to the awesome 33 1/3 series, except about films instead of albums. Jonathan Lethem is writing about John Carpenter's They Live and Christopher Sorrentino is writing on Death Wish.

SportsGrid

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 CST

We launched a new site today: SportsGrid. There's lots of data porn to ingest there, but imagine if you triangulated a player's performance metrics with their internet buzz with their salary. You could develop a new statistic -- their hype.

Techcrunch Disrupt

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 CST

At Techcrunch Disrupt (going on right now in NYC), Michael Arrington interviews Charlie Rose (you read that right!)

David Simon Hates NYC

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Sun, 23 May 2010 00:00:00 CST

This is pretty much how I felt for the first 30 years of my life. Still somewhat now.

Kill Screen

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Sat, 22 May 2010 00:00:00 CST

Kill Screen Magazine. Has anyone seen this? It's a video game magazine from prominent writers who have written for the New Yorker, the Daily Show, the Colbert Report, and The Onion.

New Social Networking Site

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 CST

While millions of young, tech-savvy professionals already use services like Facebook and Twitter to keep in constant touch with friends, a new social networking platform called Foursquare has recently taken the oh, fucking hell, can't some other desperate news outlet cover this crap instead?

125 Best Albums

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 CST

A statistical analysis of SPIN's 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years. They liked 1994 a lot.

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rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 CST

M.I.A. wins the award for least Google-able new album.

48 HR

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 CST

If this were still a functioning blog, I'd be writing about the 48 HR magazine project, which, hahaha sigh, just got sued by CBS for trademark infringement.

Gayngs

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 CST

Somehow their inside joke -- a bunch of Midwestern bros (members of Bon Iver, Solid Gold, Dosh, and Megafaun; rappers Dessa and P.O.S. from Doomtree) coming together to make fun of the idea of an "upper Midwestern indie rock supergroup" -- snowballed into something real. They actually started to get treated like an upper Midwestern indie rock supergroup. They were actually signed by an indie label, Jagjaguar.

And they say the mystery is dead.

The Mean One

rex@fimoculous.com (rex) — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 CST

"Don't know who Taylor Momsen is? Neither do I, beyond that she is the mean one on Gossip Girl." Did no one catch that David Carr confused Taylor Momsen with Leighton Meester in his lede?