nostalgia pt.1
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under everyday life
Tomorrow morning, I am leaving London after second three-month sojourn.
I will miss so many things….
• The sense of space. Though I spent hours on the tube, it is good to live in a truly big city. And I got to read some books too.
• The sense of autonomy. That however you look and whatever you [...]
Tags: london
shoreditch twat
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under popcult
Man, am I grateful for Urban Dictionary. How else to navigate the world of hipsterdom? This website demystifies all that latest trends, in such an ironic way, exposing it as urban superficial as they are, at the same time being hipstery itself (no posers, no need for Urban Dictionary).
Last week, I went to an [...]
Tags: graphic design, london, shoreditch twat
Online Information 2008 – day one: How Microsoft does it?
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under web 2.0
Mel Carson, AdCentre Community Manager, visited OI to talk about Microsoft AdCentre and how it supports advertisers with its tools and info, enabling them to appear on MSN-affiliated sites.
He also quoted the research on social media, the fact that the social networking practices in Europe rose by 35% alone last year. Apparently, Microsoft does not [...]
Tags: london, mel carson, microsoft adcentre, online information 2008, web 2.0
online information 2008 - day one
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under web 2.0
Online Information 2008 is a combination of a trade show for information companies, conference (keynote speaker being Clay Shirky, professor at NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, author of Here Comes Everybody, about which I wrote down below) and seminar series entitled Information Management Solutions. Since, my pass did not go through and the conference costs [...]
Tags: branding, london, marketing, michael nutley, online information 2008, social media, viral marketing, web 2.0
remnants of the black wave
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under films, popcult
Many people whom I meet this year were aware that I come from a post-Communist country, but were surprised to find out that the country in which I was born (with which most are familiar, not the results of the post-war division) had a socialistic organization of society, but was never a part of an [...]
Tags: films, london, yugoslav black wave cinema
castells@LSE
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic
Manuel Castells is the most cited social scientist in the world. And in person, he is a charming, funny old man. Aside from a pre-promotion, he is doing for his upcoming book (which will deal with issues of Internet and power, yet to be released) Castells’s goal in his lecture at London School of Economics [...]
