I see 753 backers, 535 of whom are in the $15 spot. What's the thinking behind your result?
535 x $15 = $8,025. Total raised is over $20,000. So less than half the funds raised came from $15 donations.
June 2012
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TOMORROW: You are all amazing. →
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Wow. You all funded Tomorrow magazine within 5 hours, and the numbers keep climbing. We’re touched and thrilled—thank you SO MUCH! Most of the funding has come from $15 donations! This is the people’s mag for real.
I don’t think this is true, either. Right now, decidedly less than half the total funding has come from $15 donations. And that’s been the case every time I’ve checked.
“An innocent mistake was made by our marketing folks who did not fully understand that while Betty was entered for a Pulitzer Prize by the Financial Times in 2000 for her series of articles on immigrant labor in the South, this does not make her ‘Pulitzer Prize-nominated.’ As soon as you pointed it out we realized it was wrong.”
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Ah, those poor innocents in Marketing.
Bloomberg TV’s ads make false claim to Pulitzer nomination for anchor Liu - Open Channel
“I looked across the football stadium and saw 56,000 enraptured Spaniards, pumping their fists in the air in fervent unison and bellowing at the top of their lungs, “I was born in the U.S.A.! I was born in the U.S.A.!” Did it occur to them at that moment that, in fact, they were not born in the U.S.A.?”
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Yes, this is David Brooks. No, this is not a parody.
“He has entirely bought into the establishment idea that table clothes, square plates, and stars define an objectively good restaurant. The value system he applies to Harlem is not one the community has ever accepted, and frankly, the rest of New York’s neighborhoods and food scenes are rejecting it as well. While the rest of us are busy winning over New York City with fistfuls of cilantro, funny glasses, and raw dining rooms, Marcus is up in Harlem plowing for the old guard—trying to carve out a new market for an outdated sensibility. He’s importing a concept on its last legs and trying to convince Harlem it’s new and worthy. Red Rooster might work better in a place like Las Vegas’ New York New York Hotel, a sorry attempt at recreating the city for people walking around with souvenir drinks. It doesn’t belong in Harlem.”
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Eddie Huang FTW.
“The Creative Class has become truly global, numbering between one-third to nearly one-half of the workforce in the advanced nations of North America, Europe, Asia, and around the world.”
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This looks like an empirical statement. What do you think the chances are that it actually is an empirical statement?
The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities
“Still, the proposition that women can have high-powered careers as long as their husbands or partners are willing to share the parenting load equally (or disproportionately) assumes that most women will feel as comfortable as men do about being away from their children, as long as their partner is home with them. In my experience, that is simply not the case.”
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Slaughter’s nut graf.
“Persaud believed that when the moon is positioned so there is a greater gravitational pull on humans, they feel down and are therefore more inclined to sell securities in the markets.”
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You know those days when you get out of bed feeling all like heavy and sluggish? Those are the days you phone your broker and tell him to sell your stocks, right? Oh, never mind.
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After Mr. Friedman’s death in 2006, Mrs. Schwartz “became the standard-bearer” of Friedman monetarism, said Michael D. Bordo, a professor of economics at Rutgers University and for decades a Schwartz collaborator himself.
Though “not a deep theorist,” he said, Mrs. Schwartz was “probably the best woman economist of the 20th century.”
” —Don’t see why that Bordo quote needed to go into the obit. Seems entirely gratuitous to me.
Anna Schwartz, Economist Who Worked With Friedman, Dies at 96 - NYTimes.com
“In 2006, I quoted a line from William Goldman about how no one knows anything in Hollywood. In Imagine, Jonah Lehrer quotes the same line. This is not surprising, since Goldman’s comment is one of the most famous things ever written about Hollywood and has been quoted, by journalists, probably hundreds of times since it was written. If Lehrer is plagiarizing me, by quoting the same quote I quoted, then I am plagiarizing the person who used that quote before me, and that person is plagiarizing the person who quoted it before them, and so on and so forth, and we have a daisy chain of “plagiarizing” going back forty years and plagiarism, as a ethical concept, has ceased to mean anything at all. By the way, if I run across the same absurd allegation anywhere else, I intend to reproduce my comment verbatim. Why? Because I thought about what I wanted to say, I’m comfortable with the way I said it, and I see no reason to tinker with my own language for the sake of tinkering with my own language.”
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Malcom Gladwell responds to allegations that he was plagiarized by Jonah Lehrer, in the comments to Jack Shafer’s blog post on the subject.
Once upon a time, I bought something (a painting by an elephant, since you ask) from an online store called Novica which seems to have some kind of association with National Geographic. Since then, they’ve kept on telling me that I have Novica Points which are about to expire. I think they should read that story about the boy who cried wolf…
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“Last year, after a reporter spent a week in the Saranda forests of Jharkhand out of which for four days she was absolutely out of reach, when she returned to Delhi with a fractured hand after completing the assignment, she was told by the executive editor, “This is what happens when you send a little girl to these areas.”
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An Indian photojournalist, Tarun Sehrawat, has died of malaria contracted on the job. The conditions of life as an Indian journalist can be extremely dangerous, and the news organizations don’t seem to care.
“YET THESE BELIEFS INSPIRE US ALL. THEY EXPLAIN THE HOW AND WHY RECORDS ARE BROKEN. BREAKTHROUGHS ARE MADE. MOUNTAINS ARE CONQUERED. MORE THAN A DESTINATION, THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE NEVER ENDS.”
—Ad copy from the latest issue of Fortune.
