Category: Culture

  • The Big Web Show Episode 15: Social Media, Social Capital

    The Big Web Show Episode 15: Social Media, Social Capital

    Tara Hunt, social media entrepreneur, author of The Whuffie Factor, cofounder of Citizen Agency, and one of Fast Company’s “women in tech—nine thought leaders who are changing our ideas about technology” is our guest on…

  • Filth & Glory. NYC in the 70s.

    Filth & Glory. NYC in the 70s.

    Transit Authority K-9 Police use German Shepherds on the subway to deter crime. ~ image copyright © Allan Tannenbaum The body of Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, is carried from the…

  • In The Wind

    In The Wind

    When the young Bobby Womack told Sam Cooke he didn’t understand [Bob] Dylan’s vocal style, Cooke explained that: “from now on, it’s not going to be about how pretty the voice is. It’s going to…

  • Crowdsourcing Dickens

    Crowdsourcing Dickens

    As an experiment in new new media thinking, I recently crowdsourced a new new literature version of Charles Dickens’s musty old old old lit chestnut, Great Expectations—the familiar tale of Pip, Ms Havisham, the convict…

  • Hockney and Friends

    Hockney and Friends

    Circa 1963, Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney and David Goodman; photo by Dennis Hopper. Scads more in “DAVID HOCKNEY | STYLE” at The Selvedge Yard.