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--> The Metapoll. Take it.
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.
So I finally get noticed by the mainstream media. Devastating takedown? Or yet more proof that “Gawker has become almost impossible to read“?
Who cares. It’s just another disappointment: No link to this site at all! Thanks for nothing. Gwankers.
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
Gawker used to be one of my favorite snarky reads, but they are suffering a profound case of out of touchness, for the most part. It’s good when Choire writes (which doesn’t happen enough) and Balk is often funny, but he doesn’t seem to be cut out for the 12 post a day grind of “professional” blogging.
The idea of you as a shill is fucking hilarious. They really need to do their homework. In other news, they recently talked about Valerie Bertinelli as being a has-been who starred in a soap opera. Now I know they’ve got some young whippersnappers dashing off posts over there, but even though most cursory of web research would’ve revealed to them that One Day at a Time was a long-running sitcom, and that she was pretty much a super star when it was at its height.
I’m not in a position to comment on the site’s quality now vs. the past.
What I am willing to say is that I always liked the One Day at A Time opening theme song. Really catchy.