Category Archives: social networks

Is the “The Warhol Economy” good for the production of culture?

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Ray

Image source: Princeton University Press I finally got around to reading Elizabeth Currid’s book, The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City, which argues that these creative industry are an important economic force in the city … Continue reading →

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Facebook Fatigue

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Ray

As a follow up to a short post a few days ago, Gigaom cites a comScore report showing a 9.3% dip in the last month. Is this an error or a sign of facebook fatigue? (A little Technorati weirdness going … Continue reading →

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Where’s the UGC?

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Ray

Image source: myspace MySpace is launching their Fashion site, after being in beta for a year. My first question is where’s the user generated content? All the videos displayed upfront seem to be in-house MySpace clips, with musicians, actors and … Continue reading →

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Battle of the Social Networking Sites: Facebook Versus MySpace

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Ray

Image source: flickr I’ve recently been poking around in Facebook fairly frequently. It helps that I got a handful of invites, as friends migrated from MySpace to Facebook, and used the email addressbook suckers to contact me. Noah recently posted … Continue reading →

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I guess it’s official.

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Ray

The site was in stealth for a long time, and friends kept on finding it… so… I guess it’s live. Putting it in technorati seems to be the next, if not final step. Technorati Profile

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there are 1000 people in new york…

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Ray

and the rest are props. I’ve been saying this for years. Part 1. I met a magazine designer at the Monday Room last night. I mentioned that I knew of a Canadian magazine art director who is looking for work … Continue reading →

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