salon vs. slate vs. atlantic

brace yrselves for creative and intelligent journalism

"Qz" because "Hz"=hertz in the International System of Units? oooooooh that is annoying.

http://qz.com/5270/before-we-came-along-quartz-really-was-a-symbol-of-the-global-economy

that site actually is pretty crap on an iPad despite being specifically tailored for it

layout is p similar to gakwer

gakwer gakwer, can't you see i'm burning burning

there's just too much going on on the screen

Quartz is intended to embody the era in which we’re creating it, like Wired in the 1990s, Rolling Stone in the 1960s, Fortune in the 1930s, and The Economist in the 1840s.

lol

haha burn

I would read this if it were 100% economist zings

awesome burn!

http://qz.com/3416/five-ways-a-new-age-of-cheap-energy-could-shift-the-power-balance-on-the-planet-2/

a great start for this website!

5. Climate change will worsen—but less than you think

whew, thank god. climate change apologetics. i was starting to get worried.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/reader_takeover/2012/10/slate_reader_takeover_your_chance_to_boss_us_around_.html

slate: "send us your story ideas bc we are running low thx"

they'll credit you!! your name up in lights!

'slate is actually a good website' haha burn

What crazy social experiment should David Plotz and Hanna Rosin try to replicate next?

The social experiment of being fired from their jobs and never having attention paid to their writings.

atlantic's new design looks okay

quartz sucks, all the articles are bland nothingness

slate is in the publishing military fanfic business now
http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2012/11/27/civil_war_who_would_come_out_on_top_if_the_united_states_all_declared_war.html

slate is apparently in the reblogging quora business now idgi

quartz sucks, all the articles are bland nothingness

― iatee, Monday, November 12, 2012 8:25 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's like monocle fucked fast company its the worst

Dumbest thing about that Quora deal is that it starts with the premise that units will splinter back to their home states but leave, say, Texas with all the hardware at Fort Hood. If you wanted to write a real alt history about Civil War II: Civil Warrer that's the story - how does the military fracture?

i was kinda hoping that article would take the perky, overly literal angle slate usually does on stuff like that -- like, which state really would win in an all-out battle to the finish? instead we get that unreadable bs.

So pissed I fell for that Atlantic linkbait about how signing off work emails with "xoxoxoxo" is "feminizing the workplace."
I'm not sure if I'm out of touch with reality or they are, but the world they are describing is not one I recognize whatsoever. So you don't have to click on it too:

The phone call was friendly, the kind any two professional contacts might have. A colleague had put Amanda McCall, a comedy writer in New York, in touch with a producer in Los Angeles. The two women had admired each other’s work from afar. They chatted about whether they might want to collaborate on a project. They made plans to talk again.

The next morning, McCall received an e‑mail from the producer. “Absolutely LOVED talking,” the woman wrote, followed by a seemingly endless string of X’s and O’s. That afternoon, a follow-up to the follow-up arrived, subject line “xo.” The body read simply: “xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo.”

McCall was mystified. Should she e‑mail back? Should she ask her what it meant? Was she weird for thinking this was weird? “I’d never seen so many hugs or kisses in any kind of correspondence, even from my parents or boyfriends,” she says, laughing. “In which case: Was this person actually in love with me? And if I didn’t respond with equal love, was it going to hurt her feelings?”

This e‑mail was extreme, yes—yet it’s an example of a tic that’s come to plague professional correspondence, especially among women. The use of xo to denote hugs and kisses dates back to at least 1763, when The Oxford English Dictionary first defined X as “kiss,” but e‑mail and social media have provided a newly fertile habitat.

“I feel like xo has taken on its own kind of life,” says Karli Kasonik, a Washington-based consultant.

“I do it, most women I know do it,” says Asie Mohtarez, a writer and social-media editor, noting that she prefers a single x to the full xo.

“In my field, you almost have to use it,” says Kristin Esposito, a yoga instructor in New York.

In some settings, xo-ing may be a way to indirectly apologize for being direct—think of all those studies concluding that women must be authoritative in the office, but also nice. One such study, by a psychologist at NYU, determined that the best way for a woman to be perceived as likeable at work is to temper strong demands with “a little bit of sugar.” In that context, xo can be seen as a savvy means of navigating a persistent double standard.

Or maybe, as Trubek suggests, xo‑ing is just like actual hugging: women do it more often than men, some women do it more often than other women, and that’s that.

“As someone who’s regularly ended letters to her accountant with xxx, I refuse to feel any shame for this widespread woman-trait,” says Caitlin Moran, the British feminist and author of How to Be a Woman. “Statistics show we’re slowly taking over the world, and I’m happy for us to do it one xxx e‑mail at a time.”

I'm about 3/4 of the way through the new issue of the Atlantic and am really thinking of cancelling my own damn subscription. It seems to have turned wholly into Freakonmics bullshit and corporation porn.

what a Moran

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/12/where-masturbation-and-homosexuality-do-not-exist/265849/

i don't fuck with the magazine at all but the site has some good writers

am kind of an alexis madrigal stan

the magazine side barely matters at this point I think, my friend who worked there said they never even had copies in the office

well when i worked in a deli i couldn't eat the food after a while either

lmao http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/scientology/archive/2013/01/david-miscavige-leads-scientology-to-milestone-year-/266958/

it's hard to believe the pr nightmare this is gonna be was worth whatever they got paid

lol three threads bumped sorry

scientologists should have just bought newsweek imo

their churches look really nice fwiw, except cincinnati

ha scitis trying to fill up the comments

Operation Reverse Ferret

"We have temporarily suspended this advertising campaign pending a review of our policies that govern sponsor content and subsequent comment threads."

scientologists should have just bought newsweek imo

― mookieproof, Monday, January 14, 2013 7:58 PM (Yesterday)

haha the thought of tina brown trying really hard to make scientology look Of The Now is cracking me up

http://boingboing.net/2013/01/14/dread-cthulhu-leads-his-cult-t.html

http://blogs.thescore.com/mlb/2013/01/14/jeffery-loria-leads-the-miami-marlins-to-milestone-year

lolllllll oh that is too good

http://www.theonion.com/articles/sponsored-the-taliban-is-a-vibrant-and-thriving-po,30910/

well it finally happened, salon has published a truther:

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/22/give_truthers_a_chance/

oh dear

the best thing about that is how he buries it in the middle of the piece though, like yeah these sandy hook people sure are crazy, btw planes can't melt steel

i like how he ends it by reminding us that "the jfk 'truthers' were eventually vindicated." oh right, i remember when that happened!

salon runs JFK conspiracy stuff a lot

ghost rider did 9/11

"What concerns me about the repudiation of the Hookers is that the 9/11 Truthers are being tarred with the same “crackpot” brush. "

lololololol