10 Things I Learned About Being Young in New York (Gawker)
Tongue ‘n’ cheek, obviously (or not so obviously?).
Coincidentally, this morning I also drew up a list of “Things People Have Called Me on the Internet.” I’m thinking this piece will give me lots of fresh content to add to that list. Each name usually includes some variation of ’self-entitled,’ since that’s the automatic insult for all NYC students. On the whole, I will admit that I feel entitled to call myself self-entitled (meta?).
Princetonian Op-Ed Plays the Rape Blame Game (NYU Local)
Epic (and depressing) comment thread alert.
NYU and New York Times Collaborate on East Village Local Blog (NYU Local)
I’ve been working really hard on this secret project, and finally last week we got to announce it publicly. NYU and the NYT have partnered to launch a hyperlocal blog catering to East Village neighborhood news, and I’m incredibly excited to be a contributing staff editor and developer with the project. Aside from the fact that the launch has (as expected) experienced a rather polarizing reception, I think that the team of people tasked with this mission are well-abled for the work, and can hopefully provide the kind of comprehensive (but fun and interesting!) community news platform East Village residents need and deserve. This project is especially close to my heart, mostly because it combines a ton of my interests (hyperlocal journalism, the East Village, community reporting, citizen journalism, etc.) into one awesome blog. I could continue to gush, but I should probably stop until we at least beta-launch (hopefully within the next month or so); we have a lot to prove–to the community, to the impressive and well-established blogs that have already been successfully reporting EV news, and even to ourselves. It’s been a ton of work so far, and it will probably only get harder from here, but I think in the end it will be well worth the time and energy.
Aspiring to write on the internet is like aspiring to shred on Guitar Hero. The best part of both is wearing your pajamas. The worst part is the tense shoulders.
-JoeCo, All the “Sad” Young Aspiring Media Careers: The Kids Are Apparently Just Fine
Since I was just an angsty lil’ teen, punctuating the drum beats of Dave Matthews Band songs with the furious slamming of my bedroom door, I’ve craved a little white box just like this one. Whether it’s because I am inherently a narcissist, inherently over-analytical, or inherently both, I’ve always needed a space to work shit out. Sometimes it was in Harriet the Spy-esque notebooks with “Keep Out (that means YOU, Mom and Dad!),” stickers on them. But mostly the rhythmic turbulence of my life has been confined to places like Xanga, Livejournal, Blogger and WordPress–I’ve had a blog on each service, at one time or another–sometimes private, but mostly public because of that whole “need to connect in a human way” thing. I’m terrible at doing that in person. I’m fumbly and shy. Here I am those things too, only less dramatically so.
So with the shuttering of J&J, my blogging home for the past two years, I’ve decided to launch this website, designed by my incredibly talented roommate David Aragon, as the new space for my mostly-jumbled-but-occasionally-valuable thoughts on media, feminism and–yes–being young in New York (or at least the East Village).
So I hope you have your earnestness hat with you, because I’m a millennial, so all I want to do is drool over rainbows and cupcakes. Join me!