November 2011
11 posts
“The postwar plenitude of the 1950s was marked by a new form of middle-class...”
– The authenticity hoax is dead
Andrew Potter’s The Authenticity Hoax is staggering in its insight into how and why different cultural movements drive consumption. It was probably the best nonfiction book I read last year.
Potter is a realtalk machine. There is nothing more authentic than...
The Restaurant of Broken Dreams →
This twitter stream of the Boston Globe’s Andy Boyle chronicling the breakdown of a marriage at Burger King is the best thing I’ve read in WEEKS.
Also, Storify looks like an awesome platform (seriously) for summarizing social media conversations. The layout is gorgeous and I’m sure it will save bloggers a lot of time screengrabbing.
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“In the nineteen-eighties, Jobs reacted the same way when Microsoft came out with...”
– Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker
The further I get into the Steve Jobs bio, the more I love Bill Gates.
“Nowhere is clients’ frustration more apparent than their opinions that agencies...”
– New Study: Clients Lower Expectations Of Agencies - Forbes
Interesting…
“The increasing ability for marketers to put specific ads in front of specific...”
– Ad Companies Face a Widening Talent Gap - NYTimes.com
I know how to do this, but the quant involved is irrelevant without the qual up front. You have to be able to do both - that’s where the real challenge is.
I FEEL SO IN DEMAND.
“What heterosexual Boomers and Millenials have in common, it seems, is a...”
– Why Gen X Guys Are Too Insecure For Your Sex Toys
This is pretty interesting, in terms of possibly being an indicator of differing attitudes toward sex across generations.
In case you can’t tell, I’m fascinated by every generation gap that has existed ever.
“Yes, the oftentimes oppositional nature of the cultural and the political became...”
– At Least Occupy Our TV, Please - National - The Atlantic Wire
Richard Lawson has left Gawker for The Atlantic Wire and he is KILLING IT.