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money can't buy taste

Marissa Mayer's tasteless display of designer wealth

Google search czarina Marissa Mayer explains her "personal style philosophy" — or, at least, that of her personal shopper and the staff at Bergdorf's — in a comprehensive if hardly hard-hitting followup to the launch of iGoogle's designer themes in the Wall Street Journal. Yes, the woman who showed up to her first interview in a sweater from Macy's INC International Concepts line is being crowned as a new tastemaker. Even as the economy takes a nosedive, Mayer jokes about being an unrepentant label chaser: More »

11:20 AM on Thu May 1 2008
By Jackson West
3,399 views, 9 comments

Latest by random_play: @BobDope: Down wit dat! more »

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Marissa Mayer treating Google as her personal salon

The Google homepage today features a photo of chrome tulips by famous artist Jeff Koons. Google has hired a bunch of artists and designers to create themes as a way of promoting the iGoogle homepage. And their choices read like a veritable "who's who" of name-brand, commercial types who create work that isn't particularly daring or challenging. More »

11:20 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Jackson West
4,346 views, 17 comments

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Local woman dumps newfangled RSS feeds to type in website addresses the old-fashioned way

An online publishing veteran who goes by the name of Halsted has stopped drinking from the RSS firehose. She says she's not missing her feed reader's unread items folder:
Nothing has changed. I spend my time writing, reading, and puzzle-solving instead, and my stress levels are markedly down. Now I am absolutely convinced that I need to ditch my RSS reader permanently, and only read a handful of feeds on a start page like iGoogle or Netvibes.
As a journalist, it's my duty to call three friends for quotes to support my article about the "Slow Web" movement now. I expect some blogger will get a book deal for the inevitable manifesto. (Photo by Jef Poskanzer)

3:40 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Jackson West
494 views, 5 comments

Latest by n/a: I did that a few months ago. It's a much simpler way to keep up on things I want to keep up on, just with a more relaxed way of going about it. Plus, it's available anywhere when more »