Love, love, love seeing World Hum make the cut as a 2010 Webby Honoree in the best writing category, along with NPR, BBC and others. Our contributors work hard to make their stories sing, and we work hard editing behind the scenes, so it’s great to be recognized. Congrats to all! Here’s to quality writing.
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Douglas Coupland and his beard on storytelling and the fate of our personal narratives in the digital age. The conversation gets rolling about four minutes in.
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Hooray for Charlie Brooker. Brilliant.
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Last December I complained that 2008 was a crap year for music. I was tempted to say the same thing about 2009, but instead of getting crotchety and complaining about kids and their music today (get off my lawn!), I decided to end the year in a more positive way.
This week, while driving to and from Chicago for the holidays, I put together a playlist of 65 of the best songs from the last decade. By best, of course, I mean my favorites. By the time we returned home, I’d narrowed the list down to 25 songs that lifted my musical decade. Some are even from the last two years. In no particular order, the songs are:
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I left the World Hum editing cave recently to see “Up in the Air” and ask director Jason Reitman and novelist Walter Kirn a couple questions about their work. Even broke out the Flip camera. Great movie, and one of my favorite recent assignments.
Check out the videos of the interviews at World Hum, or after the jump.
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