Rochelle Gurstein, writing in The New Republic, covered a recent event with author Chris Lehmann speaking about his new book, Rich People Things - which details the hilarious (and patently scary) ideas of the kind of one-percenters happy with being labelled “elite.” What’s fascinating is the…
Dan Gillmor, citizen journalism ninja and Silicon Valley watcher, in a widely-syndicated piece about the language of the occupy movement published last week, is hung up on the linguistic abuses of both sides of the occupy divide. He hates the euphemisms rolled out by government (‘enhanced…
The Occupy movement seems to be prototyping new language and civic ritual. Fascinating to see the lexicon of dissent growing as we watch. Reuters’ Laird Harrison concludes that the ‘human mic; (or ‘mic check’) is at least a part of Occupy culture. I predict that this weird, awkward…
First off, if you haven’t heard of Turntable.fm, what rock have you been hiding under? It’s the new killer music site started by Stickybits founders Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen. Basically you join a room, where up to five DJs are spinning their tracks for an audience, sometimes…
