The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. | | Joseph N. Welch, during the Army-McCarthy hearings. (Hank Walker/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) | | | | “The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.” |
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| rantnrave:// I grew up in NYC in the 80's. Prime time for club life. My first business was club promotion. Our social media? Nightlife fliers. They were an art. Legendary DJ STRETCH ARMSTRONG takes a look in his new book... At the 2017 UPFRONT SUMMIT in LA, I sat down with pal MARK CUBAN to discuss startups outside SILICON VALLEY, great entrepreneurs, greatest public startups, protecting freedom of the press, politics, combatting online trolls and sports... For all the industry's value and opportunity, almost every aspect of the video business is under attack or in a state of flux. Last year, the REDEF team created a deck designed to help leaders chart a path forward... Heroes are celebrated but choke artists are never forgotten. It doesn't mean their careers are ruined. Failing on the biggest stage can break a person or it can build them up. We take a look in our REDEF SportsSET: "The Art of the Choke"... You're out of juice and need a charge. You see a USB or power outlet at the airport or some public place. Safe right? Think again... JFK on the importance of the press in a free society. And JOHN MCCAIN... I support journalism... "You Can Go F Yourself": LARRY WILMORE vs. MILO YIANNOPOULOS and more... Knowledge vs. Experience in one image... Where's your best DIM SUM?... Happy Birthday to ALEX HARDIMAN, ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, JOHN HARROBIN, GEOFF HARRIS and LISA ELLIS. | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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Donald Trump’s election was merely an accelerant for a change that was already sweeping across sportswriting. | |
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Thelma Schoonmaker has edited all of Martin Scorsese’s films since "Raging Bull." She tells Alec what it’s like to “create” violence and what for her is the “perfect film.” | |
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Fred Wilson and Andy Weissman of Union Square Ventures join Lindel Eakman of Foundry Group Next to discuss managing generational change at a venture capital firm. | |
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“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” -Peter Drucker During the first year after a baby is born, parents take the baby to the doctor for a monthly check-up. The do… | |
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The most infamous ticket scalper of all time used bots to buy millions of tickets. Now he wants to stop them. | |
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A six-time Oscar nominee and winner for "Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest," John Knoll has been with the George-Lucas founded visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic for decades, eventually climbing to the company’s zenith, as ILM’s Visual Effects Supervisor and Chief Creative Officer. | |
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Inside Agri Stats, the poultry business’s secretive info-sharing service. | |
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Paywalls rely on publishers assuming that an individual will only have one or two subscriptions, and therefore that theirs is the only content worth paying for. But on an industry level, this approach isn’t sustainable. | |
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New technology is shaking up the entertainment business, but John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Owners, argues that box office is thriving even as TV and home video take a hit and streaming services up their investments. | |
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Even if the model featured in the magazine's latest controversial spread had been Asian, it would still have been offensive. | |
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Immersive VR is hitting the classroom. | |
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The first 30 seconds of "The Good Fight" consists of a single shot of Christine Baranski’s face as she watches the inauguration of Donald Trump. Reprising the role of Diane Lockhart, the attorney she played on "The Good Wife," she absorbs the swearing-in ceremony with openmouthed shock. Then she snaps off the TV, rises from her sofa, and gets on with things. | |
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Are the city’s pumas dangerous predators or celebrity guests? | |
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This excerpt from Leigh Gallagher’s upcoming "The Airbnb Story" reveals how the company searched for its soul--with sometimes painful results--and deepened its connection to customers. | |
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Racism is fueling a national health crisis. | |
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Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner explain why this is the last season of "Girls," what Malia Obama was like as an intern, the story behind Allison Williams ass-eating scene, creating fake semen for "Girls" sex scenes, what does and doesn't bother Lena on twitter, and more. | |
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Austin-based lighting startup Ketra has built a state-of-the-art LED bulb and a state-of-the-art way to control it. But to sell its wares to the world’s biggest tech companies, it first had to build a state-of-the-art problem. | |
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A chat with Aaron Hirschhorn co-founder and CEO of DogVacay on deliberate growth, watching dogs to make ends meet and building a business on trust. | |
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As Google becomes increasingly sophisticated in its methods for scoring and ranking web pages, it's more difficult for marketers to keep up with SEO best practices. Columnist Jayson DeMers explores what can be done to keep up in a world where machine learning rules the day. | |
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