It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. | | | | | Peter Gallagher in "The Idolmaker" (1980) (United Artists) | | | | |  | “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
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| | rantnrave:// In the past, we've taken a look at "Economic Growth, Disruption, Innovation, and Anti-Trust." Traditional companies and their deals (media mergers) are often painted as the culprits or receive the scrutiny. But are the "new jacks" getting a free pass? This op-ed in THE NEW YORK TIMES suggests: "Forget AT&T. The Real Monopolies Are Google and Facebook"... Words are so important. When there is such a great divide choose your words wisely to move to the middle. Everyone comes with baggage... "The kids of GENERATION Z have never known a world without smartphones and social media. The WASHINGTON POST examines what it means to grow up in an era where learning, flirting and hanging out all happens on screens." The entire series: "The Screen Age"... Delivery doesn't make you genuine. Your actions and constitution does... I love going to the movies. Theaters have a big job ahead trying to modernize the theater experience. It's not been their strong suit. IPIC is trying. As good as their theaters are, their online experience is terrible. I use FANDANGO constantly but not evolving in all the ways I'd like to see. Yesterday I met with a company called ATOM TICKETS. They are experimenting the way a tech company would. Trying to make it easy for us. Not fearing mistakes or unpopular decisions within the ecosystem. Variable pricing (because movies are the last seat business without it). Ticket and food bundles. Pre-ordering food (and seat delivery). Social media integration to buy for or share your intentions with friends. Merchandise upsell as you are checking out. Sending friends their tickets so they can meet you. And more. A great start and an example of what that business needs to evolve. Now if they can work on me sharing armrests. If theaters think about consumers first and what they would want, they have a shot at the future... What I'll be watching on NETFLIX this Friday because TED SARANDOS and team are behind the conspiracy to make me a shut-in who streams video more than I go outside. And then there's "Best TV of 2016: The Year in Lists," a REDEF MediaSET... Resolutions: Stop doubting myself. Trust my gut. Surround myself with people I enjoy being around and learning from. Drop legacy stresses. Get REDEF into overdrive... BEN EVANS on curation... Vocal critics who seem to stop once the target of their criticism wins... Seventeen years after TOM BRADY came into the NFL as a nobody he is among its most revered and controversial figures. He's at the center of two of the biggest arguments in sports: Is he a cheater? Is he the greatest quarterback ever? Even at 39, he's an MVP candidate again. "Tom Brady: The Patriots' Controversial Golden Boy," a REDEF SportsSET... Happy Birthday and congrats to my old friend BOB BAKISH, the new CEO of VIACOM. And to JENNIFER BIRD, CORNELIA FRAME and GISELE MONCURE. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Stratechery |
| The annual Stratechery review of the state of technology, and call to build products that unlock human potential. | | |
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 | Salon |
| There are 130 warning signs of the narcissistic personality. Trump checks off at least 90 | | |
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 | Comedy Central |
| President Obama reflects on his time in the White House as he prepares for the Trump administration. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Facts about the past and present are either true or false. Can knowledge of the future offer the same degree of certainty? | | |
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 | Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project |
| Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious group around the world, while Muslims and Hindus tend to have the fewest years of formal schooling. But all religious groups are making gains, particularly among women. | | |
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 | recode |
| The tech titans walking into Trump’s office tomorrow seem woefully unprepared. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Fearmongering Donald Trump and optimistic Silicon Valley seem to epitomize opposing ideologies. But the two have far more in common than you think | | |
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 | Andreessen Horowitz |
| Sleep, productivity, and creatively are intimately linked, for better and for worse. And “we are living under a collective delusion that burnout is the way to succeed,” observes Arianna Huffington, author of The Sleep Revolution. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| Shirod Ince sat at the front of a line of more than 100 people, mostly guys in their early 20s, on a Friday evening last month. For two days, he and his friends had been taking turns waiting outside a Foot Locker in Harlem to buy the new LeBron sneaker. | | |
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 | Broadly |
| Very little is known about how different genders experience criminal investigations differently-but is it time for this to change? | | |
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 | Mobile Opportunity |
| In the tech industry we worship “disruption,” but to most people it’s a dirty word. In a world where insecurity and mistrust in institutions are on the rise, tech is increasingly out of step with the values of the public. This puts our companies at risk of hostile regulation and customer backlashes. | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| The 'alternative-right' has used social media to become a hugely influential movement in global politics. Where is the left's version? | | |
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 | WNYC |
| Recently CNN's Jake Tapper asked VPEOTUS Mike Pence the same question over and over again, hoping for an answer. Bob spoke to Tapper back in June about the art of the follow-up. | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| The brain trust at Tribune Publishing knew that modern-day economics don't work for regional newspapers. So they had to innovate. Thus was born tronc, the new name for Tribune Publishing. tronc stands for "Tribune online content," and should be capitalized under no circumstance whatsoever-even when it's the first word in a sentence. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| A "Times" investigation reveals missed signals, slow responses and a continuing underestimation of the seriousness of a campaign to disrupt the 2016 presidential election. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| To sell something surprising, make it familiar. To sell something familiar, make it surprising. | | |
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 | World Positive |
| Our food system is moving in two different directions. The only wrong place to be is in the middle. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| Joyce Central has supported independent brands like Dries Van Noten and Rick Owens since their beginnings. As the store re-launches, the two designers reflect on an industry now more corporate than ever. | | |
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 | SB*Nation |
| MLS came calling and sparked a heated debate between a homegrown soccer mob and big money investors over who owns Detroit soccer. MLS wants a Detroit expansion team, but Detroit City FC fans want them to get lost. | | |
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 | Vice |
| We talk with the teams behind Comedy Central and HBO's comedies about the challenges of adapting a web series and why more TV networks are looking online for unique talent. | | |
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 | Nieman Journalism Lab |
| "An essential area of growth next year will be in premium products at premium prices." | | |
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 | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| EFF, Public Knowledge, and the Center for Democracy and Technology Urge The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to Protect Internet Subscribers in BMG v. Cox. | | |
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