So, there’s no better place for Bill Simmons to go than HBO. Those who don’t know how the game is played would tell him to go independent. To have all the control, to make all the money. But the truth is in today’s cluttered world you need help.
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“So, there’s no better place for Bill Simmons to go than HBO. Those who don’t know how the game is played would tell him to go independent. To have all the control, to make all the money. But the truth is in today’s cluttered world you need help.”
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rantnrave:// I'm a big fan of podcasts. They calm, educate, inform and entertain. One I absolutely love is HERE'S THE THING WITH ALEC BALDWIN. I think my friend BOB LEFSETZ turned me on to it years back. And "here's the thing": when you're an actor or a musician (or something of that ilk) the public and media can pigeonhole you as being that thing as if you have no other interests or capabilities. Clearly, he's a fantastic actor. Film, TV and stage. Comedy or drama. He's a star but also one of the finest "character actors." My fav recent roles have been 30 ROCK (genius) and as himself in the HBO mock doc SEDUCED AND ABANDONED (must see for anyone interested in the film business and created by one of my father's oldest friends JIMMY TOBACK. He and it are both nutty in a wonderful way). But why do I really love Baldwin for the last few years? His podcast. He's a really smart guy but that's not enough as we say. He's super curious. He's got the ultimate voice. Unique cadence. All-star annunciator. He's a student, fan and expert on the history of Hollywood. He loves stories. He loves to ask questions. And frankly, it really doesn't matter who's on the show. I trust that if he's doing it, it's going to be interesting. The range of guests have been fantastic. THOM YORKE to CHRIS ROCK to DAVID SIMON to JUDD APATOW to DWIGHT GOODEN to DAVID LETTERMAN to LENA DUNHAM to DEBBIE REYNOLDS to JERRY SEINFELD to LORNE MICHAELS to DAVID REMNICK to SARAH JESSICA PARKER to BILLY JOEL and on and on. I don't care about gossip or supposed TWITTER freak outs or paparazzi battles. All meaningless. Interested in him or his guests? Doesn't matter. Trust me, these are fantastic interviews. In fact, I'll go as far as to say that he's one of the best interviewers today. I love it. I've never been disappointed. I wish they could be downloaded to my brain so I had more time for others I love like BILL SIMMONS, BRET EASTON ELLIS, WTF with MARC MARON, the stuff from GIMLET and my recent binge project THE CHAMPS. I'll be taking up some religion to get close to god so I can request more hours in the day and days in the week so I can consume media.
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The Verge |
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The Wild West days of the web are over.
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POLITICO |
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How a little known agency mishandled several billion dollars of stimulus money trying to expand broadband coverage to rural communities.
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Houston Press |
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A fast-paced bass thumps through the gym as a trio of girls grips a smaller teen and hoists her into the air, squatting and driving upward with such force that the spring-loaded floors bounce a bit beneath them. Alone, above it all, she pulls her left leg up until her...
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Medium |
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CTO Megan Smith and her deputy Alex Macgillivray are seizing the tech moment. Here's their plan to raise America's technology quotient. Until about a year ago, Megan Smith was the ultimate Silicon Valley insider. A brainy math kid out of Buffalo who earned an engineering degree at MIT, she hit California like a meteor, working for Apple, General Magic, and Google.
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The Verge |
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Inside Twitter, there was confidence Weil could succeed where past product leaders failed. Unlike Graf or Michael Sippey before him, Weil is a Twitter insider: he joined the company in 2009 as a data scientist and steadily rose until he became responsible for all of Twitter's revenue-producing products.
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TED |
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Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that have a huge - and largely unexplored - role in our health. "The three pounds of microbes that you carry around with you might be more important than every single gene you carry around in your genome," he says.
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Wired |
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Right now the goal at Oculus Story Studio is move the Post-its. The true finish line is locking their latest animated virtual reality movie Henry, but to do that they have quite a few issues to fix.
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The New York Review of Books |
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There's a passage near the beginning of Middlemarch in which the narrator describes the view out of a carriage window that depicts, better than anything I've ever read, the pleasure of knowing a place intimately. "Little details gave each field a particular physiognomy, dear to the eyes that have looked on them from childhood," George Eliot writes.
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ZDNet |
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With so many people using online dating sites and app, can algorithms really determine whether the next person will be 'the one'?
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Esquire |
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Personalized medicine—or, as President Obama calls it, precision medicine—may indeed one day deliver routine medical miracles. But for Stephanie Lee, the only miracles were the human and ancient kind.
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REDEF |
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Not only has Deflategate turned into Phonegate, but it appears to be far from over even with Roger Goodell upholding Tom Brady's four-game suspension. Federal court appears next. Should Brady give up or go for another fourth-quarter comeback?
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The Guardian |
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With sun and sea, prosperity and progressive politics, residents of this enclave west of Los Angeles appear blessed indeed. Yet research by the Wellbeing Project has exposed tensions that carry interesting implications for cities everywhere
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Daily Dot |
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At VidCon, no one will ever judge you for taking a selfie. Content creation is king for the 20,000 digital video enthusiasts who descended on the Anaheim Convention Center looking to uncover the future of digital entertainment (or simply get a picture with their favorite star and capture a unique moment).
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Lefsetz Letter |
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What impressed me most was she was singing her truth, unselfconsciously, in a world where we're all too guarded, posting on Instagram about our fabulous lives when the truth is so often we feel tortured and unsure, insecure.
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BuzzFeed |
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"Oh, I want to learn how to shout orders in Dothraki!" Melissa Anelli, 35, is leaning over a small, round table, ripping a turquoise sticky note into tiny squares. She quickly writes something on one of the pieces and presses it onto a portable, platter-size whiteboard, which is already covered in neat, color-coded vertical rows.
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Slate |
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In June, the California Labor Commission ruled in favor of classifying Uber driver Barbara Ann Berwick as an employee and not as an independent contractor. But the battle over ride-hailing apps continues to rage as companies, governments, activists, and incumbent businesses all seek to shape how a new generation of...
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CNET |
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We live in a world where we're starting to talk to our computers, but it still feels like the device on the receiving end is a machine. Microsoft believes it's begun solving that with Cortana. The Internet-connected service, which lives inside Microsoft's new Windows 10 software out Wednesday, will be the first assistant at the beck and call of PC users across the globe.
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New York Magazine |
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At the risk of sounding like a wounded old-media journalist, let me share a story about my experience with the media-gossip blog Gawker.com, which I, like most journalists who cover stylish topics in New York, have read almost every day for five years.
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Katie Couric on Yahoo News |
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Anchor Katie Couric interviews GOP presidential hopeful and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee about his highly controversial remarks about the nuclear deal the United States and its allies struck with Iran.
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Complex |
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Two years ago, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis dominated pop music with a groundbreaking indie success story. But with big business comes big responsibility. Can the duo stay focused and rediscover the path to success with their new album?
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NBC SportsWorld |
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President Obama makes a surprise appearance at a baseball game.
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The Atlantic |
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The new version of Apple's signature media software is a mess. What are people with large MP3 libraries to do?
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Grantland |
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Our latest film, directed by Fritz Mitchell, tells the story of how one woman harnessed the privilege of a wealthy political dynasty to provide opportunities for those who had none.
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Newsonomics |
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Cigar maker. Elevator operator. Pinsetter. Iceman. Lamplighter. Switchboard operator. Local daily newspaper reporter? How soon will we have to add this once-stable occupation to the list of jobs that once were - occupations once numerous that slid into obsolescence? (Not to mention the even more colorful spittleman [hospital attendant], rotarius [wheelwright], and hamberghmaker [horse collar maker].)
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Salon |
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In case you were wondering whether Puritanism, nosiness and ruthlessness had gone out of fashion, this story, as reported by Metro UK on Friday, should let you know they are alive and well.
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The Conversation |
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Today's college students may benefit from an exciting array of subjects to study. But they seem to miss the most important education of all: how to relate their specialization to others in an increasingly interconnected world. The National Academy of Engineering has categorically stated that today's engineers need to be more than individuals who simply "like math and science."
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