Favicon Rick MOGWAI MOGWAI MOGWAI got my copy of Burning + the live album today WOOO!

Favicon RickWebb: Didn't get to kiss Joan Holloway upon winning a Clio. Didn't even get to go to the ceremony. So not fair. This industry's gone to the dogs.

Favicon For once I'm agreeing with Micheal Arrington.

p. “I will say this. The next time you women want to start pointing the finger at me when discussing the problem of too few women in tech, just stop. Look in the mirror. And realize this – there are women like Sklar who complain about how there are too few women in tech, and then there are women just who go out and start companies (like this one). Let’s have less of the former and more of the latter, please. And when you do start your company, we’ll cover it. Promise.”

Dear Michael, please cover Art We Love then, stat. And Jauntsetter .

Favicon how has your weekend been so far?

p(formspringmeAnswer). Friday was a nice date night with my girl, and last night I hosted a party for Alice Tiara and it was AWESOME.

Ask me anything

Favicon startupquote: Your reputation is more important than your...

startupquote :

p. Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.

- Ryan Freitas

Yay Ryan!

Favicon IMG_1953 (by skamille) Emma is rockin’ out. 

IMG_1953 (by skamille )

Emma is rockin’ out. 

Favicon how is your sunday going so far?

p(formspringmeAnswer). My sunday is going awesome! I am doing nothing! It rules! YAY INTERNET!

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Favicon Young Manhattanite: rickwebb: ... You give up the game right here: “by a pretty disgusting...

…p. You give up the game right here: “ by a pretty disgusting company.”

The other big thing in my Tumblr yesterday was this – nearly 2,000 people liking that some guy drew a three mile long paint tag across manhattan. What is the difference? One is a hip tagging artist and one…

Two quick points: First, Just to be clear, I don’t think working at an ad agency is some great thing, and I don’t really think you should listen to me. Certainly not because of my industry. 

Secondly, I think you confuse “inability” with “decision not to.” That was sorta the whole point – that this brouhaha struck me as overly critical. 

Favicon RickWebb: Just got 30 anonymous Formspring questions. WTF.

Favicon RickWebb: Today is the day that "Let it Come Down" by Spiritualized finally clicked for me.

Favicon RickWebb: Where are all those sweet care bear photos everyone took last night? I wanna see I wanna see!

Favicon tedr: ericmortensen: Awesome. Crowley is the U.S. Assistant...

tedr :

p. Awesome. Crowley is the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and the chief spokesperson for the State Department. (via TPM )

Favicon youngmanhattanite: nycthe: lock: nycthe: “I should disclose...

youngmanhattanite :

p. nycthe :
p. lock :
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p. “I should disclose that The Gotham Gal and I are small investors in Curbed and The Gotham Gal is what I like to call a “hands on investor” in the company.” — Fred Wilson , CEO of Union Square Ventures, financial backers of Zynga.

I wish Fred Wilson would stop calling me about his desire for Curbed to suppress this news. Dude gets  bonkers when he’s pissed. 

(Uh, guys? Prosecuting Fred for this is pretty completely off the wall, yes? Because obviously a random inane ad campaign requires board-level approval. Or, maybe, it’s the ad agency that overstepped? The ad agency that’s already admitted they fucked up? I think the idea of building users by papering car windshields is so misguided on its face that I’d expect Zynga to hang them out to dry for it because, well, they’re not idiots. As for Fred, perhaps maybe possibly he’s earned the trust that he’ll do the right thing?) 

(Joey Arak: back from vacation as of three days ago! Takeaway: he’s part of the cover-up.) 

(Hi Krucoff.)

Just a note that I am a big fan of Curbed.com LLC INC and Lockart Steele’s efforts online. Joey Arak included.

My post regarding lack of coverage Zynga at Curbed was done to poke fun at myself and the issue du jour . That said, prosecuting Fred for this, while obnoxious maybe, is not off the wall. It might be unpleasant to point out a local source of funding, but it’s very relevant, particularly for such a local issue.

Seems like the Fred Wilson/Curbed connection was made mostly in jest and I think NYCTHE’s main point was Curbed’s complete absence on the issue, for whatever reason, especially since it’s “the most-trafficked neighborhood weblog on the web” and Lockhart Steele, Curbed’s proprietor, presumably still lives in the downtown uberhood even if life on the UWS takes precedent sometimes.

I only brought up Fred Wilson initially , who I have much respect and admiration for, since East Village Feed ( and later the Observer ) was having a hard time tracking down someone at Zynga, a SF-based company, and I thought Fred, an investor and concerned member of the NYC community, might be sympathetic to the cause and possibly help.
Hopefully apparent but probably not, YM is a group weblog on the web so this post , by another contributor , might take him to task in more explicit (but still harmless) terms but it was out of frustration from Zynga’s lack of response . In dire situations ( tagging all cars in the East Village with gun shot decals counts as dire!), you use whatever life line is available to you.
But let’s go beyond these petty issues of “littering” and “vandalism” to look at what Peter Feld pointed out as Zynga’s much larger and serious transgressions . It seems they have a reputation problem, not a one-off instance, which I would think an investor, especially one with enormous influence in the tech scene, would be concerned about and want to take steps to address management. Of course, I have no idea how these particular VC/portfolio company arrangements work but I think we all expect a certain amount of responsible stewardship in our online and offline environments. Don’t blame the watchdogs , Lock.
(Hi 2004.)

Wow. This whole thing makes me wish I hadn’t bothered looking at Tumblr today. Or, almost ever. What’s the situation here? Someone made a boring sorta bad ad campaign? For an internet company? That someone owns some of? And that person owns something else? And someone reported on it? 

God, I own things, make ads, own an internet company and write, and I still can’t work up an ounce of outrage or even interest in this “affair.”

Also there are like ninety million things painted on the streets of New York. So what. 

Favicon RickWebb: 8:36PM: Pre-party A-Team watching. http://flic.kr/p/8wazEZ

Favicon 8:36PM: Pre-party A-Team watching.

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8:36PM: Pre-party A-Team watching.

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Favicon 15 Albums

The rules: Don't take too long to think about this. List 15 albums you've heard that will always stick with you. Tag some friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what albums my friends choose. To do this, go to your Profile page, then to your Notes tab, paste rules in a new note, list your 15 picks below, and tag people in the note.?

 

Dammit. I was almost done and Chrome crashed. Let's do it again:

 

New Order - Low Life

 

Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow

 

Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam

Spiritualized - Lazer Guided Melodies

 

Spacemen 3 - Playing WIth Fire

 

Joy Division - Closer

 

Primal Scream - XTRMNTR

 

This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears

 

Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers

 

The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever

 

Tom Waits - Mule Variations

 

Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over The Sea

 

The Underground Lovers - Leaves Me Blind

 

The Wedding Present - Seamonsters

 

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream

 

I am so not as pop as my friends. I almost put Technique instead of Low Life just to have a synth pop record, but I really do love Low Life better. Also XTRMNTR is probably a synth pop record, right? Sorta? 

Favicon RickWebb: 8:36PM: Chillin http://flic.kr/p/8vUYit
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