EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

i've been meaning to start a thread about the homogenization of the internet but have never bothered enough to investigate how much my hunch there is accurate

been feeling this real bad lately, like whatever happened to being able to -find- something, something fresh to you. instead the internet is like this ever-constricting circle of empty attempts to up the urgency on anything fool enough to poke its head up and become 'news'

rip geocities

yeah it's tough for me to know how real it is or if it's just i've liked/followed too many fluffy sites. i strongly suspect it's largely the latter but man i've followed junkfood internet sites for awhile and it didn't used to seem like this. i think the way upworthy has nearly destroyed the likelihood of seeing a non-obnoxious headline this decade is a factor also. i mean ppl hate buzzfeed and god knows there's evil lurking there (perpetua) and there are things there that horrify me personally (look i know the numbers and i get the demographics to understand why the entire 90s has been reduced 'man remember tgif on abc' but it still hurts *goes off to give new malkmus album another chance*), but there's a few 'good' things and they save me time finding youtube clips of dogs so i bear no ill will toward them really but upworthy man. a fucking cancer. lately it reminds me of how cable used to be really diverse and the channels had a purpose (the 'a' and 'e' in a&e meant something man) and then everybody figured out their lives would be so much easier if they just showed friends reruns.

btw global warming will likely devastate our way of life within our lifetimes

good tv shows today are way better than good 90s tv shows

no show is better than homicide

yeah i think the golden age etc is over or close enough (still rep for mad men what can i say) but agree that the yr average 'good, not great' tv show now (justified, game of thrones, whatever) is way better yr average 'good, not great' from the 90s.

it's a brand new era but it came too late

tv inequality is like income inequality, the average tv show has suffered and its quality of tv-life continues to decrease, but the top 1% of tv shows are living the good life

lol

nbc = detroit

tv is better now because televisions are better, homicide is even better than it used to be

i definitely feel like grooming an rss account is like a part time job - u have to be constantly weeding + looking for hot new rss edge

no you can do it without smoking mordy

who is smoking mordy

I just smoked you, sorry

Matt Yglesias ‏@mattyglesias 1m
Excited to be pursuing some new opportunities in the near future with @MelissaBell, @EzraKlein, & @DylanMatt — more details soon.

ha this is def a joke right

gross

Matt Yglesias ‏@mattyglesias 2m
Excited about the next thing, but I’m very sad to be leaving @Slate and its amazingly creative, brilliant, funny, and fun team.

hire pareene so I don't have to look at salon anymore

naw hes goin w greenwald

Is he? That makes 100% sense

ha i just made that up

i do KNOW him irl tho so maybe he told me

I heard he's going to Howie Kurtz's new portal at world net daily

max is leaving gawker for breitbart can you keep a secret

yglesias should take weigel w/ him

oh man I so predicted this

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-calderone/slates-matt-yglesias-join_b_4653747.html

this thread is like voltron now

does this mean he is going to drop the taco bell posts or RAMP THEM UP

all taco bell and game of thrones blogging all the time

this is kinda awesome tho that we don't have to start a new thread for their new venture we can keep using this one

also use it to speculate about internal power-scheming

http://i.imgur.com/TsyonCR.png

am hoping their new adventure will include no one I care about, so that I can more easily avoid these two by avoiding one website

lol xp

he needs to start a band and that can be the title track of the debut album

that can be the name of the band, they are emo

Huh, today's his (Klein's) last day at the Post already.

http://i.imgur.com/2VpCfH4.png

hes for sure not a menswear blogger folks

Looks like Jesse Thorn if he let himself go.

looks like dom p landed on his feet

lol i guess i'll do the honors

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/26/5348212/ezra-klein-vox-is-our-next

now you don't have to choose

damn yglesias is a principal in this he just sat around blogging while Klein was doing all the hard work building his brand lol

explanatory journalism is kinda an interesting concept curious to see to what extent its a real or different thing u can do

They started out calling it Bono Vox but then they shortened it.

"we're founding" = I wish I knew how much capital each of the "principals' put up