November 2008
43 posts
“Microblogging is laziness and the intellectual path of least resistance...”
– Anthony Volodkin via Twitter. This feeds on itself. It’s an elegant, insightful, and brief statement on making elegant, insightful, and brief statements. Should we be dismayed or excited about the changing communication norms?
The Web of Consciousness
Alex French, writer for GQ: How’s things? Mark Zuckerberg, social cartographer and boy CEO: There’s this definite evolution happening. Where the first part of the social web was mapping out the social graph. And the second phase is now mapping out the stream of everything that everyone does. All of human consciousness and communication. Alex: Imagine if you could broadcast people’s emotions into a...
“People don’t rise from nothing. They are invariably the beneficiaries of...”
– Malcolm Gladwell in his latest book on the genius of the everyday: Outliers.
At first, the premise of the book (a close look at how big shots built their success) is attractive marketing. You want to run and buy it and figure out how to turn a shitty life into a glittering one, because, hey, all...
On the Street
Bill Cunningham is the curiously quaint but accomplished bicycling fashion photographer who narrates his imagery of streetwear for the NYT each week. (Think a jolly old man banters about The Sartorialist’s pics.)
Cunningham’s attraction is his inspired reverence for the ebbs and flows of commuter/street culture and the way that fashion responds to it. He catches stylish people in...
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.”
– Warren Buffett, who slings business and finance aphorisms like no one else can.
Pettigrew for President
The story of Timothy Pettigrew, a fictional black Presidential candidate, is the earliest recollected depiction of diversity in America’s highest office. The comic strip, which ran in Treasure Chest magazine for half of 1964, concealed Pettigrew’s race until the final issue.
For older generations, this 1960’s comic book hero has resurfaced as a powerful reminder of just how...
“In this past year, Wikipedia has grown to 270 million unique visitors a month,...”
– That level of reach is staggering (data point via an email to Wikipedia supporters).
“in our world women are more and more important”
– Pierre Bergé, musing on fashion as a celebration of the female form @ the YSL tribute exhibition. (via FabSugar)
