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How Recappers Re-Invented TV Culture
“I hated tonight’s episode of Mad Men, but I’ll probably read something on the Internet tomorrow that will change my mind.”
So IM’d my girlfriend, and she’s not alone. Over the last decade — but especially its latter half — entertainment sites hired scores of writers tasked with the seemingly enviable responsibility of watching TV and writing about it online. TV criticism at a micro, episodic level has exploded, with content ranging from utilitarian descriptions designed to fill in those who missed last night’s episode to fanciful diversions into absurd fan-fiction and searing cultural criticism. We call it “recapping,” and it’s one of the most culturally potent forms of art criticism of our time.
![Like a Yelp! for recipes, Punchfork seems like a worthwhile visit.
littlelaur:
i love to cook. but looking for recipes can take quite a while as i browse through various sites like skinny taste, pioneer woman, bon appetit, closet cooking, etc.
which is why when i spotted punchfork on swissmiss, it was love at first sight. it compiles recipes from all the websites & gives you a rating based on the popularity of the recipe. for all the chefs/foodies, i highly recommend you check it out. [oh, & there’s an app for it too!]
Punchfork uses real-time data like tweets and Facebook shares to measure which recipes are grabbing the attention of users. Their proprietary rating system assigns each recipe a popularity score from 1 to 100. The higher a recipe’s score, the more it has been talked about and shared on the web.
Traditional recipe sites list page after page of search results in no discernible order. With Punchfork, you see only the highest quality recipes, presented in a beautiful magazine-like visual layout. | via swissmiss](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwi9hbqCGe1qa15qwo1_500.png)
Like a Yelp! for recipes, Punchfork seems like a worthwhile visit.
i love to cook. but looking for recipes can take quite a while as i browse through various sites like skinny taste, pioneer woman, bon appetit, closet cooking, etc.
which is why when i spotted punchfork on swissmiss, it was love at first sight. it compiles recipes from all the websites & gives you a rating based on the popularity of the recipe. for all the chefs/foodies, i highly recommend you check it out. [oh, & there’s an app for it too!]
Punchfork uses real-time data like tweets and Facebook shares to measure which recipes are grabbing the attention of users. Their proprietary rating system assigns each recipe a popularity score from 1 to 100. The higher a recipe’s score, the more it has been talked about and shared on the web.
Traditional recipe sites list page after page of search results in no discernible order. With Punchfork, you see only the highest quality recipes, presented in a beautiful magazine-like visual layout. | via swissmiss
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A world without facebook?
The Social Network 2 (Official Trailer) (by nicepieceproductions)
Pretty funny, and a just a bit thought-provoking.
H/t: Steve Okey, of course
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by me putting all this information out there, what I’m basically telling you is I’m telling you everything. But in this barrage of noise that I’m putting out, I actually live an incredibly anonymous and private life. And you know very little about me actually. And really so I’ve come to the conclusion that the way you protect your privacy, particularly in an era where everything is cataloged and everything is archived and everything is recorded, there’s no need to delete information anymore.
So what do you do when everything is out there? Well you have to take control over it. And if I give you this information directly, it’s a very different type of identity than if you were to try to go through and try to get bits and pieces.
"— Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am! | Video on TED.com (via interestingsnippets)
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![Congrats to my friend and former colleague, Robert Michael Murray, National Geographic’s VP of Social Media named one of the Folio:40 magazine and media people to watch (along with Mashable’s Pete Cashmore, Arianna Huffington, and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, among others) for his amazing efforts at National Geographic!
He’s turned National Geographic into a social media powerhouse.
In 19 months Robert Michael Murray has turned National Geographic [NG] into a social media powerhouse, a behemoth to be envied by publications around the world. In that short time Murray brought millions of fans to NG’s Facebook page, without ads or paid acquisition, while transforming the brand every step of the way.
“One of the first things I did was say, ‘We’re going to take this and it’s going to be a content and engagement platform and focus on trying to develop experiences and relationships [with fans],’” Murray said.
In February 2010 NG had 700,000 Facebook fans and Murray helped to push the number to 1 million. Today, the NG social media page has over 5 million fans and is the third largest media brand on Facebook behind MTV and Disney.
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Congrats to my friend and former colleague, Robert Michael Murray, National Geographic’s VP of Social Media named one of the Folio:40 magazine and media people to watch (along with Mashable’s Pete Cashmore, Arianna Huffington, and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, among others) for his amazing efforts at National Geographic!
He’s turned National Geographic into a social media powerhouse.
In 19 months Robert Michael Murray has turned National Geographic [NG] into a social media powerhouse, a behemoth to be envied by publications around the world. In that short time Murray brought millions of fans to NG’s Facebook page, without ads or paid acquisition, while transforming the brand every step of the way.
“One of the first things I did was say, ‘We’re going to take this and it’s going to be a content and engagement platform and focus on trying to develop experiences and relationships [with fans],’” Murray said.
In February 2010 NG had 700,000 Facebook fans and Murray helped to push the number to 1 million. Today, the NG social media page has over 5 million fans and is the third largest media brand on Facebook behind MTV and Disney.
SILICON VALLEY (The Borowitz Report) – A new social network is about to alter the playing field of the social media world, and it’s called PhoneBook.
According to its creators, who invented the network in their dorm room at Berkeley, PhoneBook is the game-changer that will leave Facebook, Twitter… (read more)
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Location-based social media takes a giant leap:
Astronaut checks into space on foursquare, unlocks a badge
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I bet this is the hardest badge in the world to get!!
Yay for social media — I got a couple of my sign photos picked up on local websites:
Rally Cap: Signs. Oh, The Signs. - DCist and Weekend Flashback: Sanity Edition » We Love DC
(And now I’ll link back to those sites, completing the internet vanity feedback loop!)
