Category Archives: marketing
Reaching the limit of social media.
Joel alerted me to Vanity Fair’s share tool. I deal with two social networking sites, Facebook and Linkedin, and I am already facing social networking fatigue. But the intriguing question is, do all these options mean VF gets or doesn’t … Continue reading
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Big Brother, Meet LittleSis
My friend Eddie Tejeda, has been working on an awesome site called, “LittleSis” which is an “unvoluntary Facebook for powerful Americans.” The relationships of politicians, their donors, CEOs, lobbyists, non-profit directors are made transparent through a combination of crowdsourced labor … Continue reading
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Trying to redefine browsing the web
Image source: Amazon Windowshop Am I the only person who missed this? This month Amazon launch Windowshop Beta, a CoverFlow-ish interface for shopping. This flash based interface allows you to search new selections, which are added each Tuesday. Browsing is … Continue reading
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The Intersection Between Couture and Legos
My friend Alex sent me this link to this recent JC de Castelbajac video, which reconsiders his recent runway show as LEGOs. JCDC is known for incorporating popular culture imagary into his couture, but this is taking the concept into … Continue reading
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What is the Role of the Anthropologist?
Image source: cultureby.com On Saturday, I got to hear Grant McCracken speak at the AIGA GAIN conference in New York. I documented that I was going to the talk in my usual way of writing a quick note in twitter, … Continue reading
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Fashionable Ethics.
Image sources: nymag.com, nytimes. Not the freshest topic, but worth recording, Vogue India’s August’s spread has a 16 page of photo editorial with average India people wearing luxury accessories. What’s the issue with average? When 465 million of 1.1 billion … Continue reading
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Becoming Kanye
It’s funny how ideas come together. I’ve been slowly making my through Grant McCracken’s book Transformation. This morning on the train, I came to his section on the post-modern transformation of man, in particular on the absorption of hip hop … Continue reading
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book review part 2: Conley’s OBD: branding vs. innovation
In a very nice comment, Frank mentions a link to weakening relationships from buzz marketing, and digs into deeper branding versus innovation, which is another important part of Lucas Conley’s argument in OBD, which I only briefly mentioned in my … Continue reading
book review: OBD by Lucas Conley
Image source: bn.com I’ve recently finished, OBD Obessive Branding Disorder – The Business of Illusion and The Illusion of Business, by Lucas Conley, who write for Fast Company. I’m way behind on blogging, so I’ll keep the book review short, … Continue reading
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Late night ramen.
Late nights are a rarity, but still fun. Here is a photo taken at 3 a.m, about a week ago. Alex was craving ramen, and we scored on at this place on St. Marks. Sorry, I didn’t take photos of … Continue reading
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