The takeaway from this puff piece on Nike subsidiary Converse is that designer John Varvatos's new boutique occupies the site of former punk club CBGBs.

Long, insightful blog post about the eroding distinction between indie record production and major labels. I recently saw a collectors edition of one of Radiohead's later albums in the clearance bin at Waterloo, provoking a bit of schadenfreude.

Little Inquirer story about how the US State Department is using content from Wikipedia. I think the author has the US Secretary of State (Condi Rice) confused with a state official with a similar title.

I'd like to write more about this later, but I've never liked the term "User-Generated Content" either.

Interesting blog post alleging the AOL-owned gadget blog Engadget has a "blacklist." If a blacklisted blog breaks a gadget story, Engadget editors will hold off on publishing until a non-blacklisted site reports the same story.

clever effort by Adidas to integrate grafiti into their marketing campaign