Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales just announced the launch of Openserving, a site that offers free web hosting and wiki software. So how is that different from Wales for-profit Wikia? Well, it’s not. Yet. The big move that has guys like Reuters declaring, “Wikipedia founder remakes Web-publishing economics” is Openserving’s seeming encouragement of user-implemented advertisements. Right […]
‘Tiz the Season to be Jolly (for real)
Jolly. Jovial. Joyous. All of these words are etymologically related to Jupiter – the planet of optimism and expansion – and with all the Sagittarius activity in the heavens right now, this type of energy is infused in many of our day to day affairs for several weeks. Sagittarius is half man, half animal, representing […]
The Next Big Things
The Hype Machine (and no, I’m not talking about the hype machine we music fiends, fans, and bloggers hold so dear) is a fickle beast. Love it, hate it, or clap your hands say yeah! to it, its blogs, mags, and self-proclaimed zeitgeists have a lot to do with determining who’s next, and who’s Jet. […]
The Nightlife Preamble
We the People of the New York City, in Order to form a more perfect Nightlife, establish a baseline for quality music across genres, insure a tranquil and positive vibe, provide for the common denizen of the night, and to promote what was once – and what can again become – the best nightlife for ourselves […]
Alessandro Piangiamore
Galleria Paolo Bonzano – Rome November 16 – 20, 2006 For the occasion of his first solo gallery exhibition, Alessandro Piangiamore created his own wall text that announced the title of the show: Sfidando la verità con la gravità (Challenging truth through gravity). But rather than a conventional typeface neatly adhering to the wall, the […]
Iran: A Threat Ignored
In the dispute between the US and Iran it seems that the international community has shown little or no decisiveness. Iran has stated its dangerous intentions time and again yet most of the media seems too busy, too comfortable, and perhaps too confused to ask the hard questions regarding Iran. President Ahmedinajad has written an […]