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May 13, 08 - MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU
This video by Italian graffiti artist Blu is absolutely beyond words. I can’t imagine how much work something like this entails… I’m just glad that there are creative folks out there doing it. MUTO a wall-painted animation by

May 5, 08 - Finally something for you magazine people out there to think about.
While I hate to sound like chicken little - and though the print is dead meme is way overplayed - I had to post this quote from Steve Frye. In a sidebar in the current issue of Publishing Executive

April 29, 08 - Clay Shirky on Gin, Television and the Social Cognitive Surplus
This is a fairly short, extremely relevant speech given by Clay Shirky at the Web 2.0 conference on April 23, 2008. It’s an absolute must view if you want to understand the ongoing shift from passive to active, participatory

April 24, 08 - My vote’s a bet in a football pool, five on the red, six on the blue.
Wake up fool there’s no time for a shouting match. That’s the next line after the headline of this post as it sits in Mike Doughty’s sublime anti-war tune Fort Hood. Embedded above is the newly

April 21, 08 - 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

April 18, 08 - 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

April 17, 08 - 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,

April 3, 08 - 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

April 2, 08 - 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

March 28, 08 - How magazines (the original social media) squandered their position and (almost) screwed the pooch with regard to the web.
For what seems like centuries the magazine has been the state of the art in social media. The magazine has, more than any other medium, been a crucial element in the building of communities of specific interest. Whether that interest