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My dad is an inventor. He’s got a bunch of patents, from two different continents, and an EPA award. He talks to me on instant messenger sometimes, which I find pretty impressive since he’s 76 years old and English is not his first language by more than 50 years. That half-century was spent in the [...]

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Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. – Andy Warhol It is totally disconcerting to discover a book that pretty much compiles your insights and articulates them back to you. Buying In: The [...]

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“the biggest problem americans have is what cereal to buy in the cereal aisle.” -my dad (who spent the first 56 years of his life in the USSR) i’ve been watching my friend sarah write about her adventures in crazyblinddate land, and it’s gotten me thinking. sarah explains: CrazyBlindDate.com was started by the folks who [...]

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cut it out, internet. everyday there’s some kind of new technology hoopla vying for my attention with the sordid insidiousness of a tabloid magazine at the checkout counter. and i don’t even buy that shit, but for some reason i can never resist trying to get the latest download on what’s going on in brad [...]

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last week i was on the marketing 101 panel at the startupLA conference. it was actually a lot of fun, and there were some great questions afterwards. here’s some of my favorites, and my answers: Q. what’s the fastest way for a new company to get exposure? A. look for existing communities that are comprised [...]

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first, you need to watch the trailer for sony pictures’ across the universe: here. if you cannot be trusted to come back here afterwards, however, you can just watch the shittier-quality youtube version: ok then. now that you have been adequately briefed, we can begin. i first saw the trailer for across the universe on [...]

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yesterday a new client pointed me in the direction of reverbnation.com, and while i don’t usually write about websites, this is different–i can’t even help it. launched just under a year ago, “ReverbNation.com is a Music 2.0 company that is responding to the changing music business paradigm.” except, when they say it, this isn’t just [...]

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in her essay “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace” a few months ago, danah boyd offered her observations on the dichotomy she was seeing emerge in user-demographic trends on myspace/facebook. a dichotomy that involves such ethnographic aspects as lifestyle, heritage, even aesthetics, for instance. MySpace became popular through the bands and fans dynamic [...]

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one of my favorite movie moments of the past decade has got to be that moment in x-men 2 when iceman and the rest of the teen mutants are hiding out at iceman’s house and his mom asks, him “have you ever tried….not…being a mutant?” like it would just solve everything. i went to see [...]

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