Women tweet about Valentine’s Day about twice as often as men, and are much more positive in tone when discussing the holiday. More data c/o NM Incite’s blog post - http://matthurst.tumblr.com/post...
Fresh Impressions on Brandmarks, by a 5-year-old (via AdamLaddVideos)
Pretty astute and adorable observations. If you have to overthink a logo, you’re usually doing it wrong. - http://matthurst.tumblr.com/post...
"Gentrification has a lot of implications, positive/negative for both current residents and new neighbors. Wasn't trying to add my own comment (i think the article sums it up nicely), but "Gentrify" seems like the best description of historic changes in Park Slope."
- Matt Hurst
MatthewHurst on Is Prospect Lefferts Gardens the next neighborhood to gentrify? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"GTK, I'm considering making the move myself from South Slope"
- Matt Hurst
via beatonna:
Chris Brown is performing at the Grammy Awards and it’s a big fuss! I had to remind myself why so I went and looked up this old newspaper from 2009. - http://matthurst.tumblr.com/post...
Trying to get a better sense of how we talk about, define the hipster via thesociologist: booksactually: “Almost by definition, real hipsters are not artists. They’re curators and critics, re-mixers and designers, the copywriters and “prosumers” who trail in the artists’ wake. At best, it seems, they’re art students: aspiring cultural savants who... - http://matthurst.tumblr.com/post...
via parislemon:
“Let’s see how the competition goes…”
Just to beat a dead horse, after seeing the post noting Apple’s iPhone business now brings in more revenue than all of Microsoft’s businesses combined, Jason Hiner reminded me of Steve Ballmer’s classic 2007 video laughing off the iPhone announcement (above). - http://matthurst.tumblr.com/post...
Why is it more interesting to spend an evening with this book than with a beautiful woman?
via ilovecharts:
Speaking of… - http://matthurst.tumblr.com/post...
theatlantic: Congressman Falls For Months-Old Onion Story About Planned Parenthood “Abortionplex” Meet Rep. John Fleming, the unfortunate Republican congressman from Louisiana who made that wonderful and all-too-common mistake of thinking that an Onion article was real and telling his Facebook followers to read it. Fleming’s Facebook status, from... - http://matthurst.tumblr.com/post...