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Is someone like Jenna Marbles the future of the content medium?

I was looking around for some info to write a post about YouTube trends in 2013 — I honestly think YouTube is one of the coolest things that has ever graced the collective thing we call society — and came… Continue Reading

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There are two pretty basic things we can do to improve the American office job. Could they ever be done?

You see headlines like “How many months would it take an average worker to make what a CEO makes in 1 hour?” all the time. It’s depressing. (If you care, the answer for McDonald’s is 6 months and 4 weeks,… Continue Reading

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They apparently love tagging pictures on Instagram in Bangkok

More fun with 2013 trends: this time, Instagram released its top geo-tagged locations of 2013. In the top 10 are some places you’d expect — Times Square, both Disneyland and Disney World, and the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas. But none of… Continue Reading

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The Harlem Shake: Ties to New York and Queensland, yet staggeringly popular in Poland

‘Tis the season for those year-end trend reports from organizations with a lot of data, and Facebook went big with their post yesterday. Here’s the official post, which is a little generic: for example, it lists the “top 10 life events”… Continue Reading

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Working from an office is kind of a preposterous notion, when you think about it

I came across an interesting article about Dell the other day; essentially, by 2020, they want half of their workforce to be working remotely.(Right now it’s about 20 percent.) The shift to the current 20 percent has saved Dell, by… Continue Reading

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Steve Stockman and Ted Cruz as U.S. Senators won’t happen, but damn, it would be interesting

Ted Cruz won his Senate election in Texas in 2012, so he’s good until 2018 (there’s oddly speculation that he might be running for something else in 2016, which I guess is only logical since he’s reached the coloring book stage of… Continue Reading

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Uber might someday be the true darling of the social media world; sorry, Facebook and Twitter

This post from New York lays out the different reasons why Uber is poised to be a big thing. All this started with a post on Valleywag about Uber’s financials. Then there’s the idea that they’re working with GM and Toyota to get some drivers… Continue Reading

Dave Trotter is a great American in many ways

One of the great things about America — maybe the greatest thing — is the flexibility, within some kind of reason, to do what you want with a career and a professional path. I’m always surprised when I shoot the shit with… Continue Reading