The Guild: Future of Original Content?

My girlcrush of the year! Wired magazine interviewed Felicia Day here. I think her “isolated” success is very telling about how media industry folks do NOT understand how the game is changing right beneath their feet. Perhaps the huge swell

Aesthetic Sensibility and Nationality

I LOVED this article today in the New York Times “Room for Debate” blog.

I Heart Sarah

Bike Ladies

From Scientific American: Although bike lanes painted on streets and automobile-free “greenways” have increased ridership over the past few years, the share of people relying on bikes for transportation is still less than 2 percent, based on various studies. An

Your Race Affects Your Contact Rate When Online Dating

More great data and pretty charts from the kids at OKCupid (yes the dating website!) proving that what we say and what we do are often very different animals. The website’s blog often dissects the crates and crates of data

Scientists’ Changing Findings on Kids and Race

An excerpt from the book NurtureShock was published in Newsweek last month. (Link to the book here.) One of the many topics the authors studied in the book is how and when we humans become aware of race and how

Check Out WireTap Magazine

The website WireTap is new-found favorite of mine. Heavy on advisers from Current TV, The Nation, and AlterNet, the site is a great platform for young (appears to be mostly college age) writers / content creators from the most diverse

McQueen Hearts Social Media

Another high fashion embrace of the pedestrian internet and social media. I own nothing by McQueen, I have a hard time imagining that I would ever fit into anything (and that it would look as it should) by McQueen, not

The Latest Generational Shopping Data

Excellent, data-packed article on current American shopping patterns. It parses out differences between different ages of shoppers, even in cases where the net results are similar. While boomers and Gen Y-ers have become more value-driven, they demonstrate this new mindset

Do New Yorkers Make Healthier Food Choices?

Follow-up on calorie lists in restaurant chains. Apparently I am not the only one who believes they are making better choices – I wonder if my receipts would show that I am just kidding myself? A study of New York