The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band. | | | | Dimitri Dimitrov, the greatest Maître d' ever. The Tower Bar, Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles.
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| | rantnrave:// Oh, great. Now I can't make my f***ing turkey bacon in the microwave because "they" can take pictures of me. #airquoteswiretapping. These bats*** crazy POTUS reps now quote wacky news as their source. KELLYANNE CONWAY. STEVE BANNON. STEPHEN MILLER. And on and on. These are some of the most atrocious people I've ever witnessed... I love stories. And the art of storytelling is alive and well on the internet. Discovery may be an issue, but the articles, podcasts, and videos are out there. At REDEF, we believe curators (or influencers) will be key to unearthing them. Yes, technology will play a role in hunting and gathering but the nuance, taste, and context of a curator are very important. We're proud of what we do. Over the past century, technological advancements have massively reduced the cost and time needed to create and circulate content. Though this has liberated artists, consumers are now drowning in a virtually infinite supply of things to watch, listen to and read. We take a look in our REDEF ORIGINAL: "Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry"... THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls aka Biggie aka Big Poppa) was considered one of the greatest rappers that ever lived when he was murdered at the age of 24. A look back at his career and the crime... My dear friend QUINCY SMITH (also our banker and investor) and I have often discussed the differences between media and tech when it comes to M&A and strategy. He talks to KARA SWISHER about how "when times get tough, media consolidates. Tech? Not so much." He's right... Frustrated is my most recurring emotion... Some are scouting SXSW for things to avoid. DIGIDAY and JOSH FELSER... When I'm down I think of MICHAEL CERA in THIS IS THE END... Visited FACEBOOK yesterday. The energy is amazing. The place is hopping. The campus amazing. In awe of the food services and variety too. It looks like Main St. in DISNEYLAND . I mean that in a good way. Was waiting for a parade... Lingering software bugs grind at my molars... Happy Birthday to JOSHUA GRUSS, RITA GARG, MEG LOWE, MARGOT SCHUPF, DAN SCHNAPP and DUSTIN FINER . | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| Code Advisors partner Quincy Smith talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about the state of M&A on Recode Decode. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| It’s not smoking. It’s platform-agnostic nicotine delivery solutions. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Europeans are starting to worry that Steve Bannon has the EU in his crosshairs. Here’s how the White House could genuinely help pull it apart. | | |
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 | System Magazine |
| How Alessandro Michele and Marco Bizzarri are making Gucci the feel-good fashion brand. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Private-equity firms have been rapidly buying and selling off companies for decades, and workers in Lancaster, Ohio, are living with the consequences. | | |
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 | Gizmodo |
| On Thursday night (Mar 9), South Korean president Park Geun-Hye was officially ousted from her office after a special Constitutional Court decision upheld her impeachment. For the majority of Koreans, it’s the end of a grueling three-month trial and a longer national scandal. | | |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| Barns Courtney is a huge hit in Hollywood, but his story says a lot about the challenge of breaking British artists in the UK. | | |
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 | The Outline |
| Bodybuilders gave Silicon Valley nootropics and the quantified self. Techies reciprocated with Soylent and apps. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Viacom NEXT will unveil its abstract new virtual-reality experience, 'The Melody of Dust,' at SXSW. | | |
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 | Pacific Standard |
| An electrical implant known as a deep-brain stimulator is giving some patients a new start. | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| Scammers have become a scapegoat for the ailing press. What we really need is a deeper fix. | | |
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 | CNET |
| Republicans are saying net neutrality rules are bad for business, while Democrats fear any changes will leave our internet rights vulnerable. | | |
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 | Schneier on Security |
| Useful best practices for malware writers, courtesy of the CIA. Seems like a lot of good advice. General: DO obfuscate or encrypt all strings and configuration data that directly relate to tool functionality. Consideration should be made to also only de-obfuscating strings in-memory at the moment the data is needed. | | |
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 | Digital Diplomacy |
| Will the app go viral among world leaders, politicians, and ambassadors after the IPO? | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| It appears that the Russian authorities, leaning on the work of a hacker, grafted an intelligence operation onto a far-reaching cybercriminal scheme. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| In one of the world’s most densely populated cities, the rooftops are turning green. | | |
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 | VideoNuze |
| Here's a Monday morning brain-teaser to consider: is there any rhyme or reason for which TV networks are being included in skinny bundles like Sling TV, DirecTV Now, YouTube TV and soon Hulu? If there is, it's hard to discern what it is. In fact, the composition of skinny bundles is getting more puzzling all the time. | | |
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 | Salon |
| 1992's crop of soundtracks set the tone for the decade's future movie music blockbusters and cultural evolution. | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| Interplanetary colonisation was once the stuff of science fiction but now there are plans to colonise Mars. How have film-makers and writers dealt with our rapacious Anthropocene age? | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| A spectre is haunting journalism-the spectre of solidarity. For ages the idea of reporters banding together against a common adversary has seemed thoroughly alien to the character of American journalists. We’re back-stabbing, iconoclastic individualists. No wonder Daniel J. Leab’s 1970 history of the Newspaper Guild was called "A Union of Individuals." | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| When products turn into services, the business model isn’t about selling you the next widget. It’s about longevity, repairability, and sustainability. | | |
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 | WTF with Marc Maron |
| Kevin Nealon is trying a new approach to life in order to be less of a people pleaser and to allow himself some anger from time to time. But Kevin is able to keep that anger at bay while he tells Marc about heading to LA during the '70s comedy boom, working as a bartender at the Improv, getting onto The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and unexpectedly landing on SNL. | | |
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