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Via outtamindouttasite:

Viral Mac marketing campaign or sincere music video effort?

Matt writes, “My friends got me this cake. It’s pretty funny.” And, indeed, it is, as he’s pretty well known for using homonyms on his unedited, un-copy-edited MSM blog.

As blogs move us into a less heavily copy-edited world, I sometimes wonder if we’re moving back into a more 16th and 17th century form of writing, where the idea of correct spelling was less important than the communication of meaning — which, in reality, can be accomplished just as well with incorrectly spelled words and homonyms as with a more perfect language. And also: as we move ever deeper into this new world of speech-like writing, will the perfect, formal language of the page one day seem as antique and elaborate as Victorian silverware?

Pic via Egotastic not because it’s Jennifer Aniston in a bikini, but because it’s Jennifer Aniston in a bikini reading a newspaper.

The New Yorker, the legendary weekly that reads like a monthly, is apparently looking to ramp up and improve its daily offerings. From one of those rotating sidebar “help wanted” ads on Romenesko:

The Web Producer at The New Yorker will be responsible for building templates Web pages for newyorker.com and helping to bring a daily feel to the site.

There’s already been marked improvement in TNY’s site over the past year, which clearly already employs many web people, though until quite recently they were still e-mailing out the previews of Ryan Lizza’s articles as PDFs — rather than, say, password protected links — which was, like, very pre-launch Hot Soup.

Via Stuff Indians Like (one of the many spoofs of Stuff White People Like), comes this interesting map of the world of social networking program preferences: