I’m not trying to compete with BibliOdyssey or anything (check out his book!), but the digital portion of the New York Public Library’s Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection is something to marvel at and mine for visual treats. Below, a completely random selection of archival rarities. Click them for more detail.
Page design by Georges de Feure, 1900
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Category Archives: Archives
Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection Picks Live from Mid-Manhattan
February 19 08
Introducing Bookcircuit
October 1 03
Bookcircuit is a frequently updated list of literary events in New York City.
There are literary events happening just about every night in this town, and no good place online to keep abreast of them all. Bookcircuit aims to address that.
Branding Color
May 9 03
Beyond the Retail Alphabet (and suitable only for true marketing casualties): Guess which brand each color is most associated with:
Answers here.
Web-Based Tools for Aspiring MCs
April 29 03
Burroughs cut-up machine (for that clunky, surreal Ghostface flavor)
Rhymezone dictionary (”What else rhymes with ‘yo’?”)
LucJam’s American Brandstand chart (if you’re gonna drop brand names in your rhymes, be original about it. These are already taken.)
Sample FAQ (innovation by association)
The Original Hip-Hop Lyrics Archive (double-check insular references)
Weblogs: The Stats
April 29 03
Number of new weblogs launched per day, according to Terrence Smith’s report on the NewsHour last night: 2,160
Number of professional journalists with personal weblogs who have recently been forced to stop blogging by their employers, according to Mark Glaser’s latest column: 3
Average American newspaper reporter’s base salary, according to Salary.com, in dollars: 31,092
Estimated amount of [...]
Music About Music
April 28 03
In his new meditation on the turntable in ctheory, Seattle writer Charles Mudede calls upon Heidegger, Marx, Walter Benjamin, Afrofuturist David Goldberg, DJ Marley Marl, Russian Formalist Viktor Shklovsky and, unfortunately, Tone Loc to shed light on the true essence of the turntable. Worth a read, as he goes miles beyond the typical turntablist refrain [...]
Suggestions for Companies Planning on Launching New Products with Weblogs
March 5 03
Be open and honest about it. Get “meta” about it. If everyone on the internet is talking about your new campaign, mention this fact. Mention the surges in traffic you experience. Show that you share the same reality as your readers.
Make fun of yourself and your new campaign.
Read Cluetrain first.
Text Sells
February 26 03
TEXT SELLS on the web, because people go online in the active pursuit of information, and flashy imagery too often distracts rather than informs. Ad-like images get tuned out by users, but text can’t help but get read (try looking at a page of text without reading). Google was one of the first to really [...]