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“The fact that you thought this was a real show says a lot about the state of TV.”
In collaboration with CHI&Partners NY, New York PBS station Thirteen has launched a shrewd ad campaign that criticizes the current state of television. The campaign’s five posters advertise fake reality TV shows, with crazy names like Married to a Mime (“She’s got plenty to say.”) and Bad Bad Bag Boys (“Clean up on every aisle.“), and will appear in New York City subways until the end of June 2013.
At Tuesday night’s NBA Eastern Conference Finals game, an Indiana Pacers fan wanted to publicly humiliate Miami Heat supporters in front of a national TV audience.
So what’d he do? Brought out the big guns by insinuating that Heat fans love the universally despised Canadian rock band Nickelback
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The plainly-stated “HEAT FANS [HEART] NICKELBACK” sign was expertly placed behind TNT’s crew of analysts, garnering it plenty of air time and lots of Twitter chatter. Here are a few different angles of the piece of troll-tastic fan art, culled from Twitter’s vast army of NBA-loving wiseacres: Read more…
Record Setter CEO and founder, Dan Rollman just tore a hole through the space time continuum of the internet. Stare deep, deep into the vortex and know what it is to see everything, and nothing at all.
Yes folks, it is a Tweet of a Vine of an Instagram of a Tumblr post of a Facebook post of a Tweet. The electromagnetic pulse can come now. The internet has reached its perfect form.
Tumblr’s first employee, Marco Arment, just came into a lot of money.
Or, he will soon. Yahoo’s money hasn’t hit his bank account yet. But when it does, Arment doesn’t think his life will change drastically.
In a podcast with Casey Liss and John Siracusa, Arment explains he’ll be a “terrible” rich person because he doesn’t want to buy a lot of stuff.
Importantly, Arment (like his former colleague, David Karp) is a minimalist. An example: he had two cars and couldn’t stand it, so he got rid of one. “I hate all that crap,” he says of lavish things most people dream of buying.
Minimalist mentality aside, there’s a problem with being rich.
According to Arment, when you buy a lot of things, you then have to take care of it all, which becomes an unanticipated hindrance.
Even if you hire people to take care of your things, then you have to manage those people and you become an employer. Then you have to hire more people to manage those people so you don’t have to work with them. Arment refers to this as the “rich-person management gap.”
“I guess the super-rich then have tiers of people that are maintaining [other people they hire to manage their things] but A. That’s really expensive so you have to be substantially rich to manage that and B. Even if I got that kind of money, I don’t know that I’d feel good about spending it like that,” he tells Liss and Siracusa.
Arment’s thinking stems from an article written in October 2000 by Dave Winer called “Transcendental Money.”
Winer explains:
Dream of having your perfect amount of money. Now, in theory, you feel secure. How would you spend the money?
…buying second houses, third cars, vacation homes, big things, that I wonder if most people would be comfortable actually maintaining. Three cars have to be registered three times a year. Your second home needs to be furnished and maintained, even when you’re not there.
You say you can hire people to do these things for you? Ahhh, then you spend a lot of your life dealing with employees. Is this happiness? It might not be as happy as you think.
For many people though, the appeal of coming into wealth isn’t necessarily to buy multiple homes or fancy cars. It’s the idea of being able to do what you want every day, support your family, not go to work, and the ability to take endless vacations, none of which you’d need to hire a management team for.
Here’s are other rich peoples’ perspectives:
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