MediaReDEF: Quitting LinkedIn http://t.co/BzqtJUPl

bbalfour: Awesome list to print out and place on your desk - Things Users Don't Care About - http://t.co/W390UT8p

After Maura Johnston was let go from the Village Voice in September, she decided that, after six years as a full-time writer, it was time to “prove myself on a grand scale.” On Thursday, she’ll do just that with the debut of her eponymous Maura Magazine , a weekly subscription publication for iOS…

Will Leitch, contributing editor at New York Magazine , "media" columnist for Sports on Earth , and editor emeritus of Deadspin, is filling in for Drew Magary on today's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo. Leitch has written four books . Find more of his business at his Twitter feed . Will…

What if this article began with a link to a chart on media consolidation? Would you click it? What if, instead, this article began with a promise that it would tell you “The Real Reason They Still Play ‘Mrs. Robinson’ on the Radio.” Would you click that? What if they were both the same thing ?…

New York There is no more important landmark building in New York than the New York Public Library, known to New Yorkers simply as the 42nd Street Library, one of the world's greatest research institutions. Completed in 1911 by Carrère and Hastings in a lavish classical Beaux Arts style, it is an…

Gary Flake believes that a lot of people who share images and other content through social networking services are mostly performing, cultivating artificial online versions of themselves aimed at impressing others. Naturally, Mr. Flake, a veteran technologist who has held senior positions at…

Wow. Comcast is either utterly unaware of what good software actually is, or it has intentionally been making bad software for years and is about to pull a stunning 180. Astoundingly, I think the latter is more likely. Well, without the 180 part. Geoff Colvin has a fawning interview with Comcast CEO…

To say that I have had a contentious relationship with former Facebook chief technology officer Adam D’Angelo’s three-year-old startup Quora would be an understatement. I’ve had my reasons for disagreeing with some of its policies relating to the content . Don’t get me wrong — I loved Quora before…

Although glutamate was discovered in 1908, it wasn't until the 1980s that it came to be described as 'umami', the fifth flavor. It is a savory taste, to go along with our other flavors of sweet, salty, bitter and sour. Umami is translated from Japanese to mean 'pleasant savory taste'. The fact that…

All day long, we write about startups who are frequently struggling to find some way to make an existing solution on the market much better. As a result, I see a lot of companies that focus on tweaks and incremental changes on existing products. And then, when I return to my regular life as a…

By "style injection", I mean being able to see styling changes immediately after authoring them without having to manually refresh your browser window. This isn't a brand new concept, I just mention it now because it's so awesome that if it's not a part of your workflow you should consider updating…

We should all be ashamed. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/GettyImages) On Christmas Eve, an American teenager exchanged gifts with her family. Then, she took to Twitter . "I HAVE AN IPAD BUT I'M GOING TO THREATEN TO KILL MY MOM BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T GET ME A NEW ONE,” she wrote. Then: “Mom got me a black iPhone 5…

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Home / Editors' Picks / Why Women Aren’t Crazy Why Women Aren’t Crazy September 18, 2011 by Has gaslighting conditioned women into thinking they’re emotionally unstable? Yashar Ali thinks so. —– You’re so sensitive. You’re so emotional. You’re defensive. You’re overreacting. Calm down. Relax. Stop…

Steve Wax is a serial entrepreneur focused on interactive marketing. He has co-founded five companies, including the digital agency Campfire and has been nominated for both an Emmy and an Academy Award. Follow him on Twitter @stevewax . Alex Magnin’s recent Digiday piece raises an important…

Alex Magnin is COO and head of development for The Thought & Expression Company, publisher of ThoughtCatalog.com. Follow him on Twitter @alexmagnin . Ask Facebook or Twitter, or Myspace before them. Ask the newspaper business or any online publisher — anyone who has watched banner CPMs drop to near…

artfagcity: .@jennydeluxe thinks social media has become boring. She's right. "It’s success theater, and we’ve mastered it." http://t.co/323KmfjU

Photo: Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Facebook, a company with a potential market cap worth five or six moon landings, is spending one of its many billions of dollars to buy Instagram , a tiny company dedicated to helping Thai beauty queens share photos of their fingernails. Many people have…

#3. You Hate Yourself Because You Don't Do Anything Getty "So, what, you're saying that I should pick up a book on how to get girls?" Only if step one in the book is "Start making yourself into the type of person girls want to be around." Getty "Come ooooon. I know I hid some vodka in here…

atotalmonet: Bravo @jwherrman for a different look at video game violence. IMO many points dovetail with gaming's misogyny problem. http://t.co/hvMLnZFw

IMPORTANT----->>>> Your Kindle is spying on you http://t.co/JAT3IF3i

Alan Turing should be pardoned, argue Stephen Hawking and top scientists http://t.co/cNaG7TFm

18th century French chateau razed 'by mistake' http://t.co/a6ibXl5X

an amazing, almost-forgotten story: In 1975, a different subway horror, with a different ending http://t.co/UihcqPeA via @tmcgev

A poignant topic thoughtfully examined MT @moralamb1974 @hrag @hyperallergic "Culture Hoarders" - http://t.co/WI5vFh9L #childrenofhoarders

Photo: Adam Nadel/New York Magazine I love art, but I hate the astronomical prices it sells for. My skin crawls when I read about auctions, and every year they get grosser. Last month, a living-artist record was set when a 1994 abstract Gerhard Richter painting was sold for $34.2 million. Like a lot…

Somewhere in the past two decades, TV evolved from a wasteland rotting our minds into the premier medium for truly groundbreaking comedy, drama, and storytelling. Series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Oz , and The Sopranos showed that TV could stand on its own against the creativity and vision of…

No Thanksgiving: members of Our Walmart are campaigning for reform of the mega-chain's ultra-low-wage employment practices. Photograph: Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters O n Friday, Americans by the millions will crowd into big-box retail shops to take advantage of bargains on wide-screen TVs and other…

“Popova, needless to say, is not amused.” DYING. http://t.co/Xq20ezzA

Dante and Virgil in Hell Painting by Eugène Delacroix. Amid the seemingly endless debates today about the future of reading, there remains one salient, yet often overlooked fact: Reading isn’t only a matter of our brains; it’s something that we do with our bodies. Reading is an integral part of our…

Over at Buzzfeed, John Hermann talks about liking vs favoriting and says some nice things about Stellar http://t.co/O3vex7lW