alexismadrigal

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by alexismadrigal 11y ago
See my comments further down: I was summarizing the way other people reacted to the book. That context was lost. I found the attitude depressing, too, then got it attributed to me in the New York Times. :shruggie:
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by alexismadrigal 11y ago
Hah. Dude, this was an unbelievably labor intensive project. I have an editorial team to run, a 2-year-old, and another baby on the way. There is no fucking way I could have executed this thing, even if I wanted to.
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by alexismadrigal 11y ago
I mean: just to be clear, as the giver of the quote, the context for it is that I was summarizing the feeing of other people who saw the book. I was a super strong supporter of the idea that this was too well-done to be a marketing stunt. T
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At least 4 companies offer surreal cyborg telemarketing services.(theatlantic.com)
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Rdio's lead designer got his start designing a Mandy Moore *Winamp* skin.(theatlantic.com)
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by alexismadrigal 14y ago
I think you should read more pre-Internet journalism. You'd be shocked (SHOCKED) at what a NYT really looked like from 1970, let alone the zillions of regional papers, weeklies, newsletters, etc. We remember the good stuff.
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by alexismadrigal 14y ago
Yeah, but it's the only cheap way. Video costs like 10x more than text to produce. (NB: I'm an editor at The Atlantic and I love video and I love text.)
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by alexismadrigal 14y ago
I trust PG to make the right decision. As an Atlantic editor, I'd only note that this decision was not made by the people who produce our magazine's journalism.
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Ebook of Tech Essays from The Atlantic(theatlantic.com)
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by alexismadrigal 14y ago
Agree. It's pretty obvious where they are going with this. And from an advertiser's perspective, it's pretty sweet. Right now, the distinction they are trying to draw seems to be that they'll only use you to advertise things that you choos
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The real 'Instagram for video' may be Picle: a still + 10 seconds of audio.(theatlantic.com)
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All the spam in the world may only generate $200 million in revenue.(theatlantic.com)
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Statistical analysis shows Romney's new Twitter followers are fake(theatlantic.com)
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by alexismadrigal 14y ago
Sheeeit. We've had animated gifs on TheAtlantic.com HOMEPAGE since like 2011.
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What if mobile ads just don't — and will never — work?(theatlantic.com)
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"Captain Tushin ... sat down by a bonfire the soldiers had nookd on the road"(theatlantic.com)
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So what if Facebook fell 10% today? Here's the long-term case *for* Facebook.(theatlantic.com)
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The tweet that begins the zombie apocalypse.(theatlantic.com)
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Why do people publish those idiotic videogame scare stories?(theatlantic.com)
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G+ is a failure, but here's how Google beats Facebook on social anyway.(theatlantic.com)
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Remembering the one thing Google Wave was good for: that Pulp Fiction thing.(theatlantic.com)
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by alexismadrigal 15y ago
They say that the tips actually go up, probably because the suggestion is 20%.
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by alexismadrigal 15y ago
I think they can do that actually.
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by alexismadrigal 15y ago
Story author here... I loved that one of the ladies that I talked to NAMECHECKED the Automat! Totally unprompted.
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How I found out how that 105 companies were tracking me on the web.(theatlantic.com)
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by alexismadrigal 15y ago
I posted another 50 photos of the Jamesburg Earth Station on Facebook, too, if you want the full tour of your future doomsday lair: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.317161924993793.71...
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by alexismadrigal 15y ago
Neighborhoodies is pretty good, but expensiveish. I think they start at $40. http://www.neighborhoodies.com/
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Why you can ignore CES: an investigation into last year's overhyped tablets.(theatlantic.com)
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Facebook and Apple realize a dying Kodak's original vision.(theatlantic.com)
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Proto YouTube: How 1970s Video Collectives Anticipated Our Strange Internet(theatlantic.com)
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