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2013-05-22 18:23:55 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Less than a week before the iPad was unveiled, Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch's son engaged in a tense negotiation over email. Jobs won, hands down. Here are those emails: http://qz.com/87184 

2013-05-21 21:28:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

How large is Flickr's free terabyte of storage? Larger than the entire GeoCities archive http://qz.com/86949

2013-05-15 20:17:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-14 23:19:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Got our hands on a copy of the Bloomberg terminal contract: http://qz.com/84540 

2013-05-12 17:16:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

My latest on the Bloomberg terminal snooping story, with details on the company's culture and the wealth of information it keeps on customers: http://qz.com/83862

2013-05-10 19:49:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-09 21:32:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

I wrote 2,000 words about the iPhone game Dots: http://qz.com/82987

2013-05-06 21:33:24 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 9 +1s)

My "Great Gatsby" rant: http://qz.com/81429 

2013-05-01 18:04:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Quartz is hanging out with 3 people right now in a live Hangout On Air! #hangoutsonair

2013-04-19 21:48:21 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

An essay I just wrote, with two colleagues, contemplating what we think we know about Boston: http://qz.com/76442 

2013-03-28 23:30:03 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

My latest on bitcoin's puzzling surge: http://qz.com/68328 

2013-03-26 16:12:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

The best signs supporting gay marriage at the US Supreme Court: http://qz.com/67041

2013-03-20 20:37:06 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Twelve hundred words about Moleskine: http://qz.com/64551

2013-03-14 17:25:48 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 12 +1s)

If you're like me, the shutdown of Google Reader is probably hitting you pretty hard. It's terrible. But it's a first-world problem. So here's my +Quartz  story on what Reader's demise means for Iran: http://qz.com/62867 

2013-03-12 19:58:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Pour some out some champagne for champagne, which no longer counts toward UK inflation: http://qz.com/62002 

2013-03-08 20:23:12 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

This is the future of TV: http://qz.com/60932 (my Friday rant)

2013-03-03 17:08:11 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

World Cup soccer causes heart attacks: http://qz.com/58763 

2013-02-17 23:05:45 (1 comments, 15 reshares, 11 +1s)

After +Quartz reported last weekend that Maker's Mark was going to water down its bourbon, the company faced a huge social media backlash, and today it reversed the decision: http://qz.com/54762 

2013-02-09 20:27:05 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 4 +1s)

Bad news for people who like their bourbon neat: http://qz.com/52478

2013-02-08 21:44:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Apps that might be useful for those in the northeast US experiencing a blizzard today (and for everyone else all year long): http://qz.com/52241

2013-01-30 16:59:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

I'm pretty fascinated by how things are named. Here's the tale of how BlackBerry was christened: http://qz.com/49115

2013-01-22 15:13:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

My latest "as told through" post: http://qz.com/45876

2013-01-19 03:03:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-01-18 21:25:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Marvelous footprints of world cities revealed by Foursquare check-ins (like this one, of Paris) http://qz.com/45227

2013-01-16 02:15:34 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

I wrote about the privacy implications of Facebook Graph Search, which was unveiled today: http://qz.com/43999

2013-01-11 17:58:47 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

My post on whether Walmart's new, dirt-cheap iPhone 5 deal could sell more Americans on pre-paid plans http://qz.com/42780

2013-01-09 13:56:20 (0 comments, 13 reshares, 18 +1s)

Today is the 150th birthday of the London Underground, so I looked at how the tube map has changed over time: http://qz.com/41893

2012-12-27 18:13:52 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Just wrote more about whales than I ever thought I would.

2012-12-20 13:17:28 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Today is UPS's busiest day of the year: http://qz.com/38160

2012-12-19 14:29:33 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Move over, President Obama, corporations are the people of the year

Who’s the most important newsmaker of the year? Time magazine says Barack Obama. We disagree. It’s the American corporation. 
more: http://qz.com/3773

2012-12-16 21:30:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-12-14 21:28:39 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Why school shootings don’t lead to tighter gun control in the US http://qz.com/36996
Public support for gun control doesn’t go up after mass shootings in the US. In fact, several recent shootings at schools were followed by sharp declines in support for gun control.
more: http://qz.com/36996

2012-12-12 19:29:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Snapchat (a.k.a. the “teen sexting app”) just raised $10 million from one of Instagram’s backers
http://qz.com/31673

Snapchat, the app you may have vaguely heard about as a potential conduit for teen sexting (its founder’s protestations to the contrary), is now huge, and is getting the valuation to go with it: around $70 million, after an investment of about $10 million by Benchmark Capital, which was also an investor in Instagram. 
more: http://qz.com/31673

2012-10-28 18:57:21 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

Pulled together a list of high-quality, working webcams in New York City, on Long Island, and along the Jersey Shore http://qz.com/20761

2012-10-27 19:06:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Wrote a bunch of +Quartz stories this week...
Following the paper trail from a Citigroup analyst’s desk to a TechCrunch scoop http://qz.com/20460
Women are the target of Apple’s iPad Mini advertising strategy http://qz.com/19314
Netflix ranks its competitors: Hulu, Amazon, and—yes—HBO http://qz.com/19295
Photos reveal why the iPad Mini matters: People will hold it with one hand—like a Kindle http://qz.com/18728
Newspapers have a strong future proving world leaders are still alive http://qz.com/18155

2012-09-28 21:03:52 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Our latest podcast is live! Will alternative weekly papers survive in the digital age? Do you still read them? We also talk to +Zach Seward about the launch of Quartz, and Dan Kennedy about the future of alt-weeklies.

http://to.pbs.org/Pwu7so

2012-09-07 12:16:29 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

The US government's monthly jobs report is due at 8:30 a.m. ET. Yesterday's ADP jobs number was surprisingly strong. Does that bode well for this morning? Our chart looks at how the two reports compare.

2012-07-18 19:32:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

All the Percent Solutions
The 1 Percent Solution http://bit.ly/Q7saWk
The Two Percent Solution http://amzn.to/MIvMZC
The Three Percent Solution http://bit.ly/PiFBl9
The 4% Solution http://amzn.to/NX49yV
The Five-Percent Solution http://bit.ly/M9nk64
The 6% Solution http://bit.ly/NG0ib8
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution http://bit.ly/NFXlqQ
The 8% Solution http://amzn.to/LXIPLO
The 9% Solution http://on.barrons.com/NX4LEV
The Ten Percent Solution http://amzn.to/NA0dmX
The 11% Solution http://amzn.to/OZTlxu
The 15 Percent Solution http://bit.ly/Om0v1v
The 19 Percent Solution http://bit.ly/MJaVEn
The Twenty Percent Solution http://bit.ly/Q6aRGC
The 23 Percent Solution http://nyti.ms/NzBpKo
The Thirty Percent Solution http://bit.ly/MwJ14I
The 80 Percent Solution http://bit.ly/M9mPsV
The 91 PercentSolution http://... more »

2012-06-26 17:45:52 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Contrasting approaches to the same theme on the covers of Granta (Spring 2012) and The New Republic (July 12, 2012)

2012-06-21 19:38:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Caught up with Atlantic Media president Justin Smith for an update on new global business brand Quartz. cc +Zach Seward 

2012-06-01 15:53:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Great set of four covers for +The New York Times Magazine's "Innovations Issue" coverjunkie.com/magazines/38

2012-05-14 21:48:26 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

I started blogging about life without a cable TV subscription, hoping that the many who have come before me will offer advice.

2012-05-04 14:25:16 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

The new covers of Bloomberg Businessweek, The Economist, and Time all feature vicious takes on the Chinese government.

2012-04-20 19:21:01 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

We've got all sorts of job openings...

2012-04-16 16:04:57 (23 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Cutting the Cord

I'm moving apartments later this month, and one thing I'm determined to leave behind is my monthly cable TV bill. But I need some help. So I'm going to use this space to figure out the devices and subscriptions I need to make this work.

Here's the setup I'm considering:

— Television (already own)
— Time Warner Cable Internet service ($30-$50/mo.)
— Boxee box with digital TV tuner ($230)
— Netflix streaming plan ($8/mo.)
— MLB.TV Premium ($125/year)
— Plug my laptop into my TV to watch iTunes purchases

That's about $60/mo. plus the one-time cost of the Boxee box and probably frequent but not enormous iTunes payments. That compares to my current bill of $150/mo. for cable internet and TV.

But I know that cord-cutters have all sorts of arrnangements. Should I opt for AppleTV over Box... more »

2012-03-07 01:58:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

+Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think" amzn.to/wxWFbS on a Kindle 4

2012-03-07 01:52:40 (6 comments, 10 reshares, 8 +1s)

Lots of news organizations are running some version of a "stream," "dashboard," or "live blog" for Super Tuesday. I'm collecting as many examples as I can with an eye toward comparing their approaches to live coverage. If you see any that I'm missing, leave a comment. Thanks.

Wall Street Journal http://bit.ly/AjHcbB
Associated Press http://bit.ly/zItAmJ
Breaking News http://bit.ly/z0pJFA
Reuters http://bit.ly/xc8gXI
Washington Post http://bit.ly/y4KEOt
New York Times http://nyti.ms/zmKfNz
The Guardian http://bit.ly/wKdIIM
The Atlantic http://bit.ly/xENswC
WNYC http://bit.ly/wdOHDk
New York Daily News http://bit.ly/Aybkmc
Huffington Post http://huff.to/yMdxQm
NPR http://n.pr/A4Gxeq
CNN http://bit.ly/wtwM6k... more »

2012-02-26 23:35:24 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2012-02-22 03:10:45 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 1 +1s)

How to turn any surface into a dry-erase board

2012-02-17 13:03:23 (19 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.'s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked. on.wsj.com/z65dPf