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Tuesday 7 November 2017

Internet Rich And Internet Famous

With the right marketing copy and personality buzz, the internet has the ability to make you a star by indulging your hobby. But does it have the ability to grant a middle class living?
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AMERICA'S NEW LEMONADE STAND
The Small Business Of Trying To Go Big Online
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With the right marketing copy and personality buzz, the internet has the ability to make you a star by indulging your hobby. But does it have the ability to grant a middle class living?
NEW EXCLUSIVE FROM RONAN FARROW
Harvey Weinstein's Army Of Spies
newyorker.com
The film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists.
BITTERSWEET SINFONIA
Remembering, With Fondness, The 'Worst Orchestra In The World'
atlasobscura.com
The composer Brian Eno, who joined the Portsmouth Sinfonia in late 1970 as a clarinetist (he'd never played that particular instrument before), would go on to remark that the group's ranks were filled with "a range of competence, from bona fide virtuosi to extremely incompetent."
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The Most Successful Crowdfunded Company In Existence Does It Again
kickstarter.com
Peak Design's newly upgraded Slide camera strap can be worn as a sling, neck or shoulder strap that's built for instant access and easy configuration. Peak Design has raised $14M in crowdfunding, and with products this good, it's easy to see why.
MAYBE CAPITALISM IS BAD
ERROR JORDAN
How Nike Stays One Step Ahead Of The Taxman
theguardian.com
Money paid for trainers in shops moves in and out of Europe, to the Caribbean and even to entities not officially based anywhere.
MORE LIKE POP FART
Tiffany Is Selling A Tin Can For $1,000 Because The Rich Have Lost Their Damn Minds
digg.com
Look at this dumb can.
X-MEN + AVENGERS = $$$
If Disney Bought 21st Century Fox
theatlantic.com
It would be an enormous movie-and-television company. And an enormous antitrust headache.
VIDEO OF THE DAY
'THAT IS NOT EVEN WORTH CHALLENGING'
British Journalist Gives A Masterclass In How To Interview Richard Spencer
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​Interviewing figures like Richard Spencer is a fraught decision for journalists: how do you engage with an interview subject's dangerous ideas while not elevating those ideas? British writer Gary Younge got it right.
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