This weekend I officially became the last person in New York to acquire a digital camera. Maccers has been mocking me recently for having a Flickr account for over a year with no actual photos in it. And I'll admit that my lack of camera has dramatically reduced my relative ability to stalk Richard Dawkins at secular humanism conferences. In that respect, I defer entirely to Maccers.
But now that I have one, I plan to use it for the same purposes as the rest of this website: shameless self-promotion. Along those lines, i have a piece in the April issue of Jane about decoding celebrityspeak. I don't particularly like writing about celebrities (despite having done so for Gawker, New York Magazine, Page Six and various other publications) but in this case I did manage to get the phrase "blowup doll attached to a ventilator" published in a magazine owned by Si Newhouse. And I think that counts for something.
Lindsay also has a funny piece in this issue:
In other news: Silicon Alley is apparently back. (Actually, it was back a couple of years ago, but per Sunday Styles guidelines, no one was allowed to write about it until 24 months after the fact.)
In light of that, I've cleaned up my sidebar and added "Web 2.0" links to things like my nearly empty Flickr account. And when I get around to it, I'll add my Web 1.0 links: my SixDegrees page, my Kozmo.com account, my Contentville.com subscription...
Speaking of, I found this a couple of weeks ago when I unpacking some boxes in my new apartment:
I'm too lazy to enter the full list, but if you're feeling nostalgic, here are the Silicon Alley Top 15 in 2000:
1. Steve Case & Gerry Levin (AOL Time Warner)
2. Kevin O'Connor & Kevin Ryan (Doubleclick)
3. Bill Day & Scott Kurnit (About.com)
4. Jeff Dachis & Craig Kanarick (Razorfish)
5. Chan Suh & Kyle Shannon (Agency.com)
6. Jerry Colonna, Bob Greene & Fred Wilson (Flatiron Partners)
7. Gene DeRose & Tod Johnson (Jupiter Media Metrix)
8. Clifford Sobel (Net2Phone)
9. Alan Meckler (Internet.com)
10. Richard Johnson (HotJobs.com)
11. Fernando Espuelas (StarMedia Network)
12. Glenn Meyers (Rare Medium)
13. Richard Forman (Register.com)
14. Jason Devitt & David Joerg (Vindigo)
15. David Moore (24/7 Media)
And check out the hed on Jason's editor's letter.
