After Ricky Gervais made fun of her, the Material girl took the podium to present best foreign film and quipped back: “If I’m still just like a virgin, Ricky. then why don’t you come over here and do something about it.”
She added, “I haven’t kissed a girl in a few years. … On TV.”
(AP)
Introducing: Submissions
There’s an interesting genre of blog that is more about the community than the author.
At some point you’ve probably seen Eat Sleep Draw, This is why you’re fat, or Cute Overload.
The author starts posting about a topic they care about, the readers start contributing, and before you know it, the author has become a curator.
Tumblr has always been uniquely suited for this type of blog. In fact, 6 of them have gone from Tumblr blog to book deal in the last year.
So today we’re very excited to release Submissions, a feature to streamline community-driven blogs. You can enable it from your blog’s Customize screen to let your readers submit posts via web.
Vimeo’s Got a New Music Store for Easy Soundtracks
“The Vimeo ‘Music Store,’ open today, offers over 45,000 songs—free via Creative Commons, $2 tracks for personal use, and $100 licenses if you’re planning on earning some dough from your creation.” - Gizmodo
FEIST - The bad in each other by martin de thurah
The many narratives of Martin de Thurah’s new music video for Feist create something mysterious and intentionally incomplete, yet also undeniably touching. On her website, Leslie Feist herself offers this insight: ”This video captures glimpses of something human, we get a peek inside something real between people — could be loss, longing, and love… It is told in a way where it opens up more aspects than it concludes.”
“Blake Whitman has seen Vimeo’s user numbers soar into the millions since its 2004 conception. The key to keeping up quality and turning down the noise, he…
Photo posts now support Animated GIFs up to
1MB. Woo!GIF by iwdrm featuring Blow-Up (1966)
I don’t care how good the brunch at Egg is. This line is ridiculous.
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This is the last in a series of five blog posts this week dedicated to thinking out loud about the opportunities for the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership in 2012.
This week I’ve spent a lot of time writing about the opportunities that lie at the intersection of open-source…
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SPOTTED AT LINCOLN CENTER:
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and the rest of the fabulous cast of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 arrived at Lincoln Center for the movie premiere last night and paused for photos and interviews in front of thousands of screaming fans before entering Avery Fisher Hall to view the film. Josie Robertson Plaza was surely transformed into a major star-studded event!
Watch Paula Zahn’s interview on THIRTEEN’s Sunday Arts with Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director of Lincoln Center and Director of the White Light Festival.
