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Longreads: Rolling Stone’s Doree Shafrir: My Top Longreads of 2011
longreads: Doree Shafrir is an editor at Rolling Stone, where she hangs out with the Misfits on a regular basis. She can also be found at doree.tumblr.com. *** When I went back into my Kindle and my Twitter and Tumblr and email and all the other places where I noted or saved especially… Longreads: Rolling…
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My first official data report for Read It Later: Who Are the ‘Most Read’ Authors? This will be the first of many pieces looking at how, in the era of the “read later” button, we can redefine what it means to be a popular author or publisher. We now have a much more well-rounded view…
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GQ’s Sean Fennessey: My Top Longreads of 2011
longreads: Sean Fennessey is the editor of GQ.com. (See more stories on his Longreads page.) I’ll try to follow a few guidelines for the sake of imagined objectivity, so, no friends; no GQ pieces; no pieces published before January 1, 2011; no stories pseudonymously submitted by my mom; no… Sean sets the bar. GQ’s Sean…
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Our first Longreads Member perk: A digital subscription to the New York Review of Books
longreads: Last month we introduced the (completely optional) Longreads Membership, and we’ve been thrilled with the response so far. I wanted to personally thank everyone for their support and encouragement. We’re also excited to announce the first official perk for our Longreads Members: a free, three-month digital subscription to the New York Review of Books.…
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longreads: Coming April 13th! Rolling Stone and Longreads present: A night of long-form journalism. Join us at Housing Works in NYC for a special panel with Rob Sheffield, Jeff Goodell, and more. Moderated by Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana. 7 pm. Free. More details here Excited to team up with Doree and the RS team for…
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#Longreads #List: Share Your Reading Mixtapes
longreads: December was an incredible month for the Longreads community. Thank you to everyone who has shared, discovered, Instapaper’ed and Flipboarded your favorite longreads. From the daily #longreads recommendations to the year-end “Top 5 Longreads of 2010” lists, you’re all proving that the desire for in-depth storytelling, online and offline, is strong—and here to stay.…
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miltnr: This guy from The Sing Off definitely doesn’t roll on Somer Shabbos. That’s also why I voted for him.
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hungoverowls: “I am literally trying to squint the brain out of my head. It’s that’s bad.” Am I late to this Hungover Owls party? (thnx @richziade)
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We Need New Ways of Judging the Success of Websites
What other ways can we start looking at what websites are and how they perform? Well, pay rate, sure (though try prying that number out of anyone). Then there’s traffic versus site income, certainly. Take the HuffPo again—that’s $30 million this year, they say, and they were reporting 26 million uniques via comScore back in March, so let’s…
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Top 10 Longreads for Art, Design, Film & Music
longreads: I teamed with the wonderful BrainPickings.org to feature my favorites in this category. Some of you beat me to the punch on these, but there are a few new gems in there (Stephen Tobolowsky, I’m looking at you). Not to be left out of the fun. Top 10 Longreads for Art, Design, Film &…