As the world kept him thinking in turns so would the blank, empty, undiluted space in the upper right corner of his unimaginative American blog. It left itself for last - as if it knew it was much too smart for him - as if the search bar that had once been there was an overture to another space in time - as if that corner meant more than it really did.
Notes
Notes are the default blog postings – the thoughts that are heavier than 140 characters, more than one link, and simple enough to not warrant too much explicating.
I’ve got my shoes on backwards, that’s all
An interesting video by my friends William Mallory and Jessica Licciardello made it’s way into my inbox today. It’s the video for the song “Shoes” (a catchy romp if there ever was one) off of William’s latest album I was Never Here. If you like white rabbit LSD freakout visuals with a good pop music [...]
Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics
Yochai Benkler, for those who may not know him, is a Harvard law professor and author of the absolutely eye opening book The Wealth of Networks (you can read that book the same way I did – for free online – by going here). This video is from the July 2005 TED Conference and it [...]
Museum of Modern Arthur
Creative people really jazz me. Joseph Arthur is a creative kat… a musician (a good musician who writes and sings weird, interesting, sublime, demented, twenty-first century psychedelic folk songs) and a painter (a pretty good painter who paints colorful, dissected, distracted, emotional, stringy, twenty-first century pop art) and now a man with a museum (of [...]
I’ve seen all good people; Good People Day 2008, an exercise in cultivating positive vibes and networked appreciation.
God help me, I don’t like to blindly follow, but there is just something about the Vaynerchuk enthusiasm that’s hard to deny. Anyway, from the mind and heart of @garyvee comes Good People Day… a day to think about and celebrate good people. The idea is to bring those people out into the light of [...]
Ryan Adams has a blog and the fire hose is on and spewing strange and beautiful art.
SHOPPING IS GENIUS from Ryan Adams on Vimeo. Ryan Adams is prolific. Usually that means he’ll release a few albums in the space of a few months, but now – in the age of personal expression – it means that he can produce any manner of artistic communication he and his psychosis can dream up. [...]
How magazines (the original social media) squandered their position and (almost) screwed the pooch with regard to the web.
So, if you are an editor, or a publisher, stop obsessing over the tech… that will iron itself out. You have to get back to basics… You have to re-learn your community… You have to get your hands dirty and participate in the conversation – especially when it’s NOT taking place on your property… You have to mix it up… You want to be the leader of the charge– not the headless king.
Gary Vaynerchuk drops some science, the kind of science you need to study.
I have been on the Gary Vaynerchuk bandwagon for a while now, and until recently I was just following his lead on wine. Lately though, @garyvee is really hitting a nerve in terms of plain old life. His perspective has always been true… always been honest… always been about the things that matter. No bullshit, [...]
Are magazine publishers being well served by their trade press?
I read an article today that got me a bit peeved. The story – Profitable Web 2.0 Tactics – was the cover story for the March 2008 issue of the trade magazine Publishing Executive. In the interest of stirring debate I left a comment on the mag’s site and as of this posting it was [...]
A pervasive medium is always beyond perception
It scares me sometimes… the degree to which McLuhan nailed it. His take on how media and the electronic age were/are re-shaping the human experience was so profoundly accurate at such an early point in time one has to wonder whether or not he fell from the future. For more interesting video you must go [...]
Obama urges us to strive to be that more perfect union – will we do it?
If you follow politics at all you have no doubt heard by now that Barack Obama delivered a speech today… actually he delivered a groundbreaking, paradigm shifting address on matters concerning race, family, friendship, and the great American discourse. Yes friends, today Barack Obama showed us just what politics in this country could be like… [...]
