From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Directors Cut (4/5)

Directors Cut (4/5)
Very good at the ten dollar choppety chop, even if, as a white male, my review has no bearing on their expertise …

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After your fifth ignored pitch to any one editor, email again with, “Just checking – are you getting these? Regards, John.” This usually results in the editor assigning you a photo caption out of sympathy. You’re in!

After your fifth ignored pitch to any one editor, email again with, “Just checking – are you getting these? Regards, John.” This usually results in …

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And yet the fact that the Web creates a new kind of semantic or social geography untethered to physical space doesn’t mean that the old kind of geography disappears. 99% of the Web 2.0 companies that have launched over the past five years have been, in effect, pursuing those kinds of new associations that you describe, but there hasn’t been nearly as much focus on the possibility of using the Web to enhance physical geography. So we’re trying to correct that imbalance. If everyone was doing hyperlocal, and no one was doing, say, social networks, I’d probably start a social network site. What we’re really grappling with at outside.in is the fact that we built the site around a very specific ideal-case geography: Brooklyn.

And yet the fact that the Web creates a new kind of semantic or social geography untethered to physical space doesn’t mean that the old …

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The Warhol Economy by Elizabeth Currid (kottke.org)

The Warhol Economy by Elizabeth Currid (kottke.org)…

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If you want a deep, yet readable, look into the issues of how the ‘Net affects cultural production, social justice, and economic development, The Wealth of Networks is the best discussion available.

If you want a deep, yet readable, look into the issues of how the ‘Net affects cultural production, social justice, and economic development, The Wealth …

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Avoiding regret is not an option, whether in your formal education or your love life; and it’s the price of the ticket that you must learn this the hard way. There are no shortcuts between naivete and sophistication. Or rather, there are a lot of shortcuts – but all of them will lead you astray.

Avoiding regret is not an option, whether in your formal education or your love life; and it’s the price of the ticket that you must …

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Music is Cure and Curse

Originally in: San Francisco Chronicle

Tales of Music and the Brain. By Oliver Sacks. Knopf; 381 pages.

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Who is the most important person in your local hospital? Seek – or, rather, listen – and ye shall find, according to Oliver Sacks.

Leading …

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Oliver Sacks’ ‘Musicophilia’: Music is Cure and Curse [SF Chronicle]

Oliver Sacks’ ‘Musicophilia’: Music is Cure and Curse [SF Chronicle]

[San Francisco Chronicle; November 2, 2007]

Who is the most important person in …

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