Entries Tagged as 'authenticity'

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

This Is What’s Happening: 2012 Edition

Remember back when I used to be a social media strategist? I started before that term was even being used, and as late as this October the L.A. Times still hadn’t gotten the memo that I had move on, calling me a “social media expert” for my crimes (among them: 1, 2, 3). So you’d [...]

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Thursday, September 27th, 2012

The Once And Future Myspace

Have you seen the new Myspace video yet? Oh, no? Here it is. Go ahead, watch it. I’ll wait – For anyone who knew WTF social media was before they got a Facebook account in 2007 when everyone else they knew was doing it — you may understand. Myspace was built on music. When Friendster, [...]

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Monday, November 21st, 2011

A Note From The Absentee Landlord

SocialCreature, I haven’t forgotten about you! I still love you and think of things I want to tell you all the time, (like what Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous says about “the intersection of art and politics and role of the artist in society”, or the similarities between the Snow White & the Huntsman trailer and the [...]

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Monday, September 12th, 2011

The Post-Empire’s New Shoes

On September 8,2011, Nike announced they would be releasing a limited number of pairs of a new product. As the shoe’s official site explains: In 1989, Nike designer Tinker Hatfield was asked to design a shoe for the second chapter in the Back to the Future series. He created the power-lacing, self-illuminating, Nike MAG. Riding [...]

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Monday, March 21st, 2011

Charlie Sheen Is Not Crazy

Image: Culture Wins Charlie Sheen is not crazy. Or, at least, he’s not crazy the way you think he is. Charlie Sheen may finally be admitting that he’s lost his mind — exclusively to Life&Style, of all places, if we are to believe it — but that’s something that would have already been a long, [...]

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