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Required Reading: “Indie Sweethearts, Why the Simpsons No Longer Matter and the Death of RSS”

Smokler on December 21, 2009

io9 on the decade in comic books and graphic novels.

Thawoop! Bang!

(tags: book comics graphicsnovels decade)

Interview with Tom Waits focusing on his acting career

Growling expected… (via Largehearted Boy)

(tags: tomwaits interview acting movies q&a)

20 pieces of music that changed the world: CBC Radio

via Kottke.org

(tags: music culture history arts cbc audio)

Which airlines will be wi-fi equipped in 2010?

Too few of them, to be sure.

(tags: internet wifi travel wireless airlines 2010)

When indie sweethearts (Zooey Deschanel, Ellen Page, and Luke Wilson) pitch products (cotton, Cisco, and AT&T): Slate.com

File under "who cares?"

(tags: advertising celebrity indie culture commercials products sellingout)

Is RSS the 8-track of information consumption? The Steve Rubel Lifestream

hmmmm…

(tags: technology rss information)

The New Republic on why America no longer makes anything…

The answer will surprise you (via Arts Journal)

(tags: business economics management manufacturing economy mba businessschol)

Why The Simpsons no longer matters: Salon.com

Sad but probably true…

(tags: culture media tv television Simpsons)

Do Books release us from the "Tyranny of The Moment?"

One hopes…

(tags: books reading time entertainment productivity)

Required Reading: “Zach Braff, Luxury Goods, Dressing like one of your Characters”

Smokler on November 10, 2009

Bored New World: How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music — PopMatters

Hilarious!

(tags: music culture indierock bordem zachbraff indie)

Rebecca Skloot's immortal BookTour reinvents the form – Publishers Weekly

Well done!

(tags: books publishing booktour socialnetworks howto promotion marketing)

How Luxury Will Survive after the recession: The Big Money

via Murketing.com

(tags: business consumption luxury consumerism asia)

How to Write a Great Novel: Junot Diaz, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood and Other Authors Tell – WSJ.com

Article's been written 1000 times but still fun to read (via The Elegant Variation)

(tags: books literature writing writers authors creativity process)

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