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Things That Look Like Other Things.
Counterfunctionality (A Gallery).
MLK BLVD: Open-source photography project: Contribute to the Flickr pool; browse the blog.
"Where Were You?" Annual.
Titans of Finance: True Tales of Money & Business
. With Josh Neufeld. Now available for the iPad! Go here.
I’ve toyed with both LastFM and Pandora. I have not used iLike or MOG, which like LastFm seem to turn on a more “social”-oriented idea.
Do you have opinions about these networks/services — or others?
Please chime in, in the comments, if you do.
Thanks.
PS: No Consumed this weekend.
The Consumed Facebook Page. I started this in connection with my NYT Magazine column, and intend to maintain it until further notice. 
Imagining implausible uses for unpopular places. A project in collaboration with Ellen Susan and G.K. Darby.
Great creative writers invent stories about thrift-store objects. A project in collaboration with Joshua Glenn.
Letters From New Orleans, by Rob Walker. 
Foreward to Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
Introduction to Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture
Essay for OBEY: Supply & Demand - The Art of Shepard Fairey - 20th Anniversary Edition
Consumed column about Obama as muse is included in Obama: The Historic Journey.
A piece I wrote way back when for Slate is included in Sponsorship: The Fine Art Of Corporate Sponsorship/the Corporate Sponsorship Of Fine Art
Gary Hustwit's industrial design documentary Objectified.
Anne Elizabeth Moore's book, Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity.
Kaya Oakes' book, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture
Elizabeth Currid's book, The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City
Kim Fellner's book Wrestling with Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino
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Reader Comments
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I love iLike. I made a decision long ago to not buy Greatest Hits albums except for the most specific of circumstances (like trying to sit through an entire Hall & Oates album). I really like B-sides, and I often find myself really feeling a selection from my music collection that I previously did not know existed. I can throw it up on iLike as it comes to my attention and let other people know about songs that they probably never would have listened to. It’s great stuff and I don’t know why it hasn’t caught on more, to be honest.
Last.fm is okay if you use it enough and let it “learn” you. The diversity of selection is unparalleled. But the most usable and feature-rich is Spotify, if you can score an invite. It’s on-demand radio, basically.
LastFM records every song you listen to for public consumption… If you could set the privacy so no “friends” could check in on your taste level, I would have left it installed. now if I want to listen to Soda Shop by Jay Brannan on repeat for an hour and a half straight, then that’s what I’ll do.