Comments on: How to make an anthropologist nervous http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_to_make_an_.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:10:58 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Steve Portigal http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_to_make_an_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3222 Steve Portigal Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:21:36 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-3222 <p>A neat story for Carol - some articles going through the blogosphere today about "book" being a new term for "cool" because some of the text entry algorithms accidentally are substituting one word for the other (sort of a typo)...</p> A neat story for Carol – some articles going through the blogosphere today about "book" being a new term for "cool" because some of the text entry algorithms accidentally are substituting one word for the other (sort of a typo)…

]]> By: Carol Gee http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_to_make_an_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3221 Carol Gee Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:28:03 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-3221 <p>I'll just never belong. It is as if I am listening to my four grand-daughters over in the corner. <br /> However, I am able to observe with fascination how language evolves in quite wonderful ways. I thing it is the teeny little text message space on the cell phone screen that produces talk in minature. Phones, notebooks and PDAs synthesize this new dialect.</p> I'll just never belong. It is as if I am listening to my four grand-daughters over in the corner.
However, I am able to observe with fascination how language evolves in quite wonderful ways. I thing it is the teeny little text message space on the cell phone screen that produces talk in minature. Phones, notebooks and PDAs synthesize this new dialect.

]]> By: Steve Portigal http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_to_make_an_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3220 Steve Portigal Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:37:04 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-3220 <p>I recently blogged that "design is the new lesbian" but I'd like to think that using a cliche with some irony (or even-post irony) allows you to participate and comment at the same time.</p> I recently blogged that "design is the new lesbian" but I'd like to think that using a cliche with some irony (or even-post irony) allows you to participate and comment at the same time.

]]> By: Steve Portigal http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_to_make_an_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3219 Steve Portigal Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:35:05 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-3219 <p>Hello? This post is soooo 2005.</p> Hello? This post is soooo 2005.

]]> By: Tom Asacker http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_to_make_an_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3218 Tom Asacker Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:35:29 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-3218 <p>Seriously? OMG, I just titled my new article "Plaid is the New Black & White." Yo! And I thought it was my best ever! Now I guess not so much. </p> Seriously? OMG, I just titled my new article "Plaid is the New Black & White." Yo! And I thought it was my best ever! Now I guess not so much.

]]> By: LeisureArts http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_to_make_an_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3217 LeisureArts Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:59:36 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-3217 <p>We did a "map" of usages of X is the new Y. It can be seen here:<br /> <a href="http://thediagram.com/6_3/leisurearts.html" rel="nofollow">http://thediagram.com/6_3/leisurearts.html</a></p> We did a "map" of usages of X is the new Y. It can be seen here:
http://thediagram.com/6_3/leisurearts.html

]]> By: wdm http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_to_make_an_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3216 wdm Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:51:19 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-3216 <p>Some Gawker deconstruction you may enjoy:</p> <p>"Why the Schadenfreude dailies are ruining culture"<br /> <a href="http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/archives/000860.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/archives/000860.html</a></p> <p>"Douchebaggery and Why You Should Make Sure to Burn that Embarassing Letter you Wrote Your Girlfriend at Age 14"<br /> <a href="http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/archives/2006/10/douchebagism-an.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/archives/2006/10/douchebagism-an.html</a><br /> </p> Some Gawker deconstruction you may enjoy:

"Why the Schadenfreude dailies are ruining culture"
http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/archives/000860.html

"Douchebaggery and Why You Should Make Sure to Burn that Embarassing Letter you Wrote Your Girlfriend at Age 14"
http://www.pliink.com/mt/marxy/archives/2006/10/douchebagism-an.html

]]> By: Ajax http://cultureby.com/2007/01/how_to_make_an_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3215 Ajax Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:26:49 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-3215 <p>On the "X is the new Y" formula, the one I liked best (for its wonderful metaphor-meshing) was:</p> <p>"Being gay is the new black"</p> On the "X is the new Y" formula, the one I liked best (for its wonderful metaphor-meshing) was:

"Being gay is the new black"

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