Recent Deliciousness

• What is this “Fake” in the Fake Sartorialist? « threadbared
  But it isn’t just Web 2.0 technologies that have opened up a space in the fashion world for those outside to enter and occupy it. For the past 8 or 9 years, cheap chic fashion and democratic design have been valorized as enabling non-elite consumers to access and own the look of elite classes. The democratization of fashion ushered in a new cultural politic that values and legitimizes (some) knockoffs. It is against this political economic and cultural backdrop that the real and virtual consumption and circulation of fashion images, objects, and discourses are given new meaning.
  
• Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee - The Rumpus.net
  Fascinating "interview" with a random FB employee about use of data, privacy, and tracking, tracking, tracking
  
• Comment: Down with meritocracy | Politics | The Guardian
  Michael Young, who coined the term "meritocracy" as a dystopian critique, weighs in on the contemporary use of the word and how it creates a new disenfranchised underclass
  
• Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the “Net Generation” « Web Use Project
  Eszter's work on how young people's internet skills vary based on education, gender, and race.
  
• Harassment by Q&A: Initial Thoughts on Formspring.me | DMLcentral
  danah's smart thoughts on Formspring
  
• A special report on managing information: Clicking for gold | The Economist
  
• Free PowerPoint Templates and Backgrounds
  Nice selection of actually kind of cool vector art backgrounds
  
• Das Racist: Thanks, Internet!
  The three-man creators of "combination pizza hut and taco bell" reflect on the implications of internet fame and drop some science on corporate mythmaking.
  
• February 2010: Vanessa Grigoriadis on Twitter | vanityfair.com
  Odious article on female Twitter celebrities, mostly content-free
  
• How Diverse is Facebook? | overstated
  Fascinating report from Cameron Marlow et. al. about racial diversity on FB: It is, he says, and getting more so.