Made a career out of spending a lot of time on a computer and talking like a nerd in NYC for fashion people. I also like music.
Well if you read one thing today, experience this story by The New York Times because that’s precisely the best way to define it. Incredible.
One of the coolest things I’ve ever…read?
It is truly an experience and feels like a new approach to online journalist storytelling.
If you don’t think local news is the best you are the worst.
“Virginia passed a bill that says, ‘Life begins at conception’ bill. What’s next? Life begins at last call? Life begins when you press ‘Send’ on your Match.com profile? Really?”
- REALLY?! with Seth and Amy | SNL, February 18, 2012
Facebook spam getting you down? USA Today investigates.
Most of the information we’re finding is useful, but be wary, especially of photos. Some people will use this major news event to doctor and then share photos as a prank as they did when Osama bin Laden was captured. For example, is that really a shark swimming through the streets of Puerto Rico because of Irene? Of course not. But this photo posted on Reddit.com suggests that was the case. It is a fake and the image of the shark appears to be from a photo published on whitesharktrust.org.
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A selection of social media resources for the storm:
Facebook’s main page devoted to disaster reliefYouTube’s CitizenTube, which is collecting videos about Irene
Breaking News from the Weather Channel on Twitter
The National Hurricane Center — on Facebook and on Twitter
Department of Homeland Security on Twitter
The U.S. National Weather Service on Facebook
The Weather Channel’s Livestream on Facebook
The Federal Emergency Management Agency — on Facebook, on Twitter, and on YouTube
My hero.
A collection of tweets from Apple employees as they got the news Steve Jobs, their visionary, beloved—and sometimes feared—CEO, was resigning.
How my hair look Mike?
On Wisconsin! Feat. Arcade Fire
A very moving video made by a UW Madison student showing the rally and protests over Governor Walker’s budget repair bill.
As a daughter of an educator in Wisconsin, I am so proud of those who are taking a stand against this outrageous bill. On Wisconsin!
And now, here’s news about a blogging site called Tumblr.
A BLOGGING SITE CALLED TUMBLR.
Landing a single ticket to a New York Fashion Week show is considered a feat for most. But Tumblr, a fast-growing New York-based blogging service, was able to snag 24 passes to each of more than a dozen shows, including big names like Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta.
For Fashion Week, which kicks off Thursday at Lincoln Center, Tumblr is bringing in two dozen of the top fashion bloggers who use its site, putting them up in a hotel and sending them to myriad events, including backstage tours and a rooftop party. The plan is part of a push to raise its own profile and the profiles of its bloggers.
It’s also evidence of its sway. Tumblr’s acceptance by big-name designers is the latest sign of an increasingly cozy relationship between two strange bedfellows: the fashion and technology communities.
…One of Tumblr’s high-profile bloggers at the shows will be Jessica Quirk, of the blog What I Wore, which has 54,000 followers. The 28-year-old was among the first fashion types on Tumblr when she joined in March 2008. She began posting photos of what she wore each day; a year or so later, her blog was a full-time job.
Tumblr saw 6.7 million unique U.S. visitors in December, according to industry tracker comScore Inc. That’s up 168% from the year before—but still well behind two other major blogging platforms. WordPress had almost 28 million unique U.S. visitors during that time, while Blogger, which is owned by Google Inc., had nearly 59 million. If the measure is page views, however, Tumblr far surpasses those rivals. Tumblr had 1.6 billion U.S. page views in December, compared with Blogger’s 697 million and WordPress’s 141 million, according to comScore.
…Out of Tumblr’s 13.4 million blogs, about 20% are related to fashion. (Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? I call BS. —.ed) (Vogue has its own blog on the site, as do other magazines and fashion brands.)
I still think they should do Ethnic Vogue.
