We’re on a history kick at the 92nd Street Y today. It’s all because of Shorpy.
Category Archives: New York
Unusual New York Public Library Collections
March 19 07
Research Room panorama. Full version.
The New York Public Library as we know it today began with the merging of three private collections, those of James Lenox, John Jacob Astor and Samuel J. Tilden (hence the library’s official name: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations). Since then many other fabulously wealthy [...]
Startup Your Lists
February 27 07
List of White Label Social Networking Platforms
Growing like Tom’s friend list.
10 Company Name Types on TechCrunch
Compound or blend?
Ning – Create Your Own Social Network for Anything
Now everyone create their own social network so we can build a social social-network network.
What the Web’s most popular sites are running on
Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
New York Gets Googled
Google’s [...]
New York Magazine Hardcore
December 5 06
It’s been too long since a New York magazine cover story got this kind of reaction. Video clips from a classic 1986 episode of Donahue:
Where’s Peter Blauner now, you ask? Busy.
UPDATE: If you want to read the original article, here’s the PDF.
UPDATE 2: Peter Blauner offers his take on the article and the show.
Providence’s DIY Wunderground
October 10 06
Providence types may be interested in this set of shoddy cameraphone pics I just uploaded to Flickr. They were surreptitiously taken at the RISD Museum’s blow-out exhibition, WUNDERGROUND: Providence, 1995 to the present.
New York-based Providence types may be interested in the fact that tonight, October 10, Gary Panter and Matt Groening will be riffing off [...]