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Very few creators, of course, will turn out like Dave Portnoy. And, of course, you don’t need to — there is lots of space between making a solid living writing on your own and selling your website to a publicly-traded gaming company.

Myles Udland • The passion of the posts

The club Marquee on Tenth Avenue in Manhattan is often attributed with pioneering bottle culture by hiring image promoters to bring models to attract spenders.

Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

JRE

things of interest from JRE

Chad Kissinger • 2 cards

Johnny Carson: The Man Who Retired

Bill Zehme esquire.com

Avalanche has the BIGGEST COLLECTION OF STAND-UP COMEDY DVDs I would ever see in a video store.

Jenny Wynter • Funny Mummy

Nucleus: The content that you create. At A Media Operator, that’s the essays that I write about media businesses. I really don’t think non-media people are reading this.

Jacob Cohen Donnelly • Subscriptions Is Perfectly Fine; But Community Can Give You More

As the amount of content grows, so does the market for credible curators.

A great case study is Nathan Baschez and Dan Shipper’s Everything Bundle. In April, they decided to offer a bundled version of their newsletters, expecting a few extra subscribers from the experiment. Instead, they grew together from 600 to 1,000 paying subscribers within the ... See more

gabygoldberg.medium.com • Curators Are the New Creators. The Business Model of Good Taste | by Gaby Goldberg | Medium

After seeing Rosselli at his house, I asked Mr. S if Giancana had leaned on Rosselli to lean on Cohn to give him the part in From Here to Eternity, and he gave me a Cheshire-cat grin. “Hey, I got that part through my own fucking talent,” he said. And then he gave me a wink.

George Jacobs • Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra

Charley Grove

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