over(heard) & under(stated)

Maya Baratz pulls stuff out of the internet's parentheses.

I’ve got some (more) news to share. Beginning next week, I’ll be working at ABC News, focused on the strategy and development of new products.

I feel lucky to have worked with an incredible, entrepreneurial team at The Wall Street Journal on projects like the launch of WSJ Social. I’ll miss this fantastic newsroom full of talented folks.

I couldn’t be more excited about my new role at ABC News. I look forward to wrapping my brain around the quickly changing face of television, bridging the way we know it now with how we will watch, hear, read and interact with the news. 

Onward!

Posted at 1:13pm.

I was bored. So. I wrote this. (thanks @alextaub for the photo).

Posted at 1:21pm.

I was bored. So. I wrote this. (thanks @alextaub for the photo).

As advertised.

caro:

youbroketheinternet:

Life

Dead squirrel reblog for Maya. Fox reblog for me.

(Source: nevver)

Posted at 10:47am.

As advertised.
caro:

youbroketheinternet:

Life

Dead squirrel reblog for Maya. Fox reblog for me.
Maya, upon learning that when I sneeze, I sneeze twice in a row. (via caro)

Posted at 12:00pm.

You’re like a poet. In couplets.

December 1st 2011

Reblogged from caro|6 notes

Maya (via caro)

Posted at 11:23am.

Hipsters need snow globes. Instead of snowflakes there can be mustaches. Instead of the naked ladies—wait, are there naked ladies in snow globes?
  • Maya: wait, field notes? seriously? so they can write about their feelings as they do their juice cleanses and take photos of their well-cleansed skin with sparklers?
  • Caroline: it's way too ambitious. all the guys I know need to start on a lower level. like with listerine and a hairbrush and some excedrin.
  • Maya: or just toilet paper

Posted at 3:23pm.

…in which me and  (in a tux!) dance around all “dorky new yorky” (1:56)

changetheratio:

Here it is - the video for “Raise Your Cache” from last week’s incredible RaiseCache event for HackNY. Note the ratio. There now, that wasn’t hard, was it? 

Very proud of this, the product of many zany hours by myself and my co-producer Phil Di Giulio, co-founder of FrameSocket, the vid platform embedded above (shout-out also to our Mixmaster David Pakman, who took my raw vocals and auto-tuned them into submission). Startups/orgs repped, in no particular order: 

Urtak, Piictu, Dispatch, Fashism, Curbed, Eater, Racked, Foursquare, Lover.ly, The Daily Muse, Honestly Now, Shelby.tv, Art.sy, The Geno.me, CityPockets, Bnter, LaunchPad LA, WantWorthy, 10gen, Sonar, The Difference Engine, Hashable, WellcomeMat, FrameSocket, Change The Ratio, Contently, NYTM, OnSwipe, KloudCo, Siftee, Hopscotch, Artsicle, Veri, TechStars, SideTour, TechCrunch, Aviary, Yipit, GirlDevelopIt, Elizabeth & Clarke, YouNow, Giftiki, Barbarian Group, Birchbox, Local Response, The Lean Startup Machine, Sailthru, Business Insider, Spark Capital, IA Ventures, HuffPost Tech, WSJ Social, The Daily, StockTwits, Uber, Wanderfly, Small Girls PR, Behance, BrunchCritic, Google, USV, WeFest, Guest of a Guest, RaiseCache, We Are NY Tech. 

Lyrics below: 

RAISE YOUR CACHE 
(To the tune of Pink’s “Raise Your Glass”)

Hack, hack, get in the black
Get on the ball there’s no turning back
Show some stamina 

Think, think, energy drink 
Push some more code it’s swim or sink 
Want some ramen, ya? 

Founder, hacker 
Venture backer
Maker, shaker 
Firecracker
Trying, frying, odds-defying 
This shit’s serious 

So raise some cache if you’ll be here  
To hack one more day
Startup underdogs
We’ll just iterate, iterate - lighting up the night 
In New York City - til we get it right 
But until then until then we’ll raid your stash
Just come on and come on and raise your cash! 

Pitch, glitch, scratching the itch 
Solving the problem to make us rich 
Can’t we just cash out (cash out!)
Bootstrap, note with a cap,
Building the userbase, build the app 
It’s so on right now (so fuckin’ on right now)

Rip it, zip it,
Ship it, flip it
Read the blog from that guy from Yipit 
Flying, vying, Hack NY-ing 
This shit’s serious 

So raise some cache if you’ll burn on 
Without a runway 
Startup underdogs,
We will never be never be anything but lean
It’s better that than going to Wall Street 
So just come and come on and make your splash  
Just come and come on and raise some cash 
If you’re dorky, New Yorky then raise some cash
Keep on wishin’ it, Tischin’ it - raise some cash 

(Bubble? This ain’t no Y2K, baby.)

And if you’re short on the flow 
And the going’s pretty slow 
You can change that ratio 
We can always, we can always,
Raise another round…

(Aw, foo!) 

So raise some cash if you are in
It for the long haul
Startup underdogs,
Keep on making things making things - every single day, 
In New York City 
Techie little geeks 
So - raise - some
Cache if you are here,
And you are staying 
New York underdogs,
We can make it here make it here - only gotta try 
In New York City 
Here’s to us, NY 
And together together we’ll raise some cache 
With community, unity - raise some cache
Just come on and come on and raise some cache
Just come on and come on and raise your cache 
For me 

******

Donate to HackNY here! Buy Pink’s Greatest Hits here!

Posted at 4:49pm.

this was fun

ryangraves:

My friend @mbaratz at the @raisecache fashion, rocking the cat walk!

Posted at 5:30pm.

this was fun
ryangraves:

My friend @mbaratz at the @raisecache fashion, rocking the cat walk!
  • True story.
  • Maya: i once won a pie eating contest
  • Maya: by turning it into a pie fight (true story)
  • Maya: ran up the roof to throw them down on people
  • Me: wow
  • Maya: i came down after i thought the coast was clear and got clobbered

Posted at 4:19pm.

I’m also making a fool of myself tonight on the runway. And I can’t see very well. So.

caro:

Support education and entrepreneurship in New York, and watch me make a fool of myself on the runway.  

Seriously.  I’m nervous already.  There are going to be about a thousand people there and I am currently confronting this onslaught of stress with a giant plate of mac and cheese.  Oh, crap, I shouldn’t be doing that, should I.  Whatever!  Come to Raise Cache!

You can get a 25% discount with code “modelcitizen.”

Posted at 12:51pm.