Freaky Friday

Today's is all weird because of the holidays and it kind of feels like this:

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Not really, but whatevs.
My most popular post of 2014 was a listicle that made it to Romenesko. If none of this makes any sense, it probably means you're not a journalist.
Congratulations!
Oddly, my most popular post of 2014 that was not from 2014 was a 2012 tutorial on how to make Pinterest slideshows because I guess that's what people want to do.  #ohwell.

Mario Cuomo was, "A man of contradictions who enjoyed Socratic arguments with himself." That's a beautiful line for any obit. Mine will probably be, "Ivan Lajara liked to brag that he made it to Romenesko."  #ohwell.

Before I forget. Happy New Year!
Here's some obligatory Hudson Valley stories: Uptown Kingston parties hard. Area seniors party harder. First baby!

Here's the last part of the Jay from Serial interview. Conclusion: reddit can be a scary place.
But it also can be fun. And, yes, weird. Very weird. Don't be weird.

Downton Abbey returns to US shores on Sunday so this is as good time as any to drop this weird thing.  

One cat:

One Google Glass photo:

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is a random experiment in which I throw in a bunch of links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the morning.  Have you subscribed to this yet?

There's actually a bit of news in this post

The Year in Review pic.twitter.com/CgeaMRDrv3
— Ivan Lajara (@ivanlajara) December 30, 2014

2015 is approaching so my resolution is to be less snarkHAHAHAnevermind.

The police in Lowell, Massachusetts, would like you to know that you should not be trying to capture the escaped goat because that's Massachusetts for you. I expect a micro-brew out of this in two weeks.

As you might remember, we have our own history with goats (of the red kind) in Kingston.  That's the kind of thing that will make the New York Times notice. All the goats that's fit to print.

Now that I've lost all your attention, here's some news: Gary Chetkof, founder of the Mountain Jam festival, took to social media and went online to post a message to address "overzealous security searches that have taken place in previous years and I realize that we have let you down." He also seemingly types while getting photos taken. The Black Keys are headlining this year's festival in Hunter and judging from their press photo they also look concerned. Drugs are bad, mkay?

At least it's not like Britain, which is full of monsters. And that is to say, full of horrible people who write stories for the Daily Star. Drugs are bad, mkay?

Jay from 'Serial' part II is out. So it's that terrible Photoshop job in that Intercept story. I like Photoshop, and that's why I keep a piece of bacon on my desktop.

Important journalists @ajchavar, @missmagner, and @yurivictor hosted a gif exchange and this is what I've got from Louije:

Here are 24 tools to try in 2015 if you are a journalist of simply if you are into C O N T E N T. I tried Plague. It's fun and I'm wondering of its journalism applications. If you use it, however, you should lower your expectations. At left is what's on Plague's site. At right, my first post.

One cat AND Google Glass photo:

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is a random experiment in which I throw in a bunch of links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the morning or maybe stuff from Facebook? I also post a cat and a Google Glass photo.

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Top stories and other not so top stories

I took a look at the Daily Freeman top posts for 2014 and created some lists for the top news, galleries and features of the year. One of the galleries, Saugerties through the years, was very popular online mostly because of this photo. You figure it out.

The top posts are not to be confused with the Year in Review, which is a nice timeline of regional events.

Talking about top posts, this is my most popular post on reddit:
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ︵ ╯(°□° ╯) IRL

That's reddit for you.

Animal news

Science of the day: "Scientists show that drunk birds ‘slur’ their songs" Go home, birds.

Hero of the day: "Victim: Our 'hero' dog disappeared after fighting off masturbating intruder in Bensalem"  There's nothing I can add to this headline.

People news

Jay from 'Serial' speaks for the first time. I'm on episode 5 but I read the whole thing anyway. Part II comes out sometime later soon pretty please.

Newspaper carries have it rough.  Life editors have it easy.

Natalie Merchant was in Kingston yesterday with other fracking foes to celebrate the state ban.

One cat (board):

Follow Ivan's board CATS!!!! on Pinterest.


One Google Glass (board):

Follow Ivan's board Google Glass things I do. #throughglass on Pinterest.

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is a random experiment in which I throw in a bunch of links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the morning. I also post a cat and a Google Glass photo or apparently a Pinterest board I've forgotten I had.

It's over. No comment.

'Serial' is over, and you'll see many a post around the internets about it. I'm actually on episode 3 so this is all I've got for you:

NO SPOILERS!

'The Colbert Report' is over, and everyone showed up to say goodbye. You'll also see many a post around the internets about it with blah this and blah that, because clicks. It's the Content Wars, after all.

The Colbert Report
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'The Interview' is over and not coming out in any format so of course scenes are leaking out.
The Telegraph has the Kim-Jung un death scene. SPOILER ALERT! He dies.  #sorrynotsorry. It's not like you can go see the movie anyway. And no, you can't see 'Team America' at the theaters, either.


No comment.
I have no comment about SantaCon Kingston taking place today in Uptown starting at 4 p.m.

I made a tutorial (for myself, mostly) on how to post emojis from a desktop PC (works better in Firefox). The Washington Post needs it for 💩. No comment.

In Sweden, people hunt (troll?) trolls. I have many a feels about this. But no comment.
News people make mistakes.  Do we at the Freeman make mistakes? No comment.
I have no comment on this article about online comments because there's no way to post one with the article.
Here's my Christmas tree in 3-D for no reason whatsoever so no comment.
I have no comment about this loud-mouthed Twitter cat.
I have no comment about this Google Glass photo taken in Hudson.

Yesterday's Internet, Today! is a quasi-feature in which I throw in a bunch of links I tweeted, faved or saw the day before or in the morning. Plus other things, because why not? Anyway it's over now. NO COMMENT.