tint.org anthropology, the social web & the cultural layer

About

Contact Info & Where I Hang Out:

Email
danlatorre /at/ tint /dot/ org

Twitter
@danlatorre
@newamsterdamize

Blogs
tint.org (here, my personal site)
newmasterdamize.com (slow bike culture in nyc, co-blogging with noneck)
harveysarles.com (my teacher's site; admin, editor, & photo editor)

Phone
262-LATORRE (Google Voice #)

Where I Work

Currently at Project for Public Spaces - doing strategic product & service development, and rebuilding the web practice on sustainable Agile methods & platforms. My main focus is on a new product to crowdsource ethnography for community-driven placemaking.

Previously at The Open Planning Project - doing product management & strategic planning for Streetsblog, Street Films, Fixcity.org, Livable Streets Community and Education

(Note: All works and opinions here are my own unless otherwise noted, and are not on behalf of companies, organizations, or persons that employ me or that I am involved with on a formal or informal volunteer basis. All posts are under Creative Commons Attribution license, feel free use and quote as you like just credit me by name and link to the source post when doing so, thank you.)

About tint.org

I post to this site to share & work out thoughts and questions I just can't fit into Twitter or directly apply to the work I'm currently doing.

I'm an intellectual misfit, a multi-cultural/third culture global citizen with a Colombian and Norwegian-American background who grew up in Bogota, San Diego, Minneapolis, and for the past 13 years residing in New York City. An observer and worker in our times and as a result in this era don't neatly fit into any traditional discipline at all. In the past few years focusing on social media in civic contexts. (You can see my LinkedIn profile for more on my work. And Twitter is where I mainly hang out these days.)  Speaking broadly my interdisciplinary interests run across anthropology, cultural studies, semiotics, media, socio-linguistics, philosophy, zen buddhism, and applied cultural change/advocacy. But then that doesn't get us anywhere these days does it?

People
I became aware of Mike Wesch after his web2.0/anthro video came out in Jan '07, and when talking with him at the 2007 Idea Conference he at one point told me that basically most all of my questions and interests are that of Media Ecology, and that I should talk with Lance Strate. I hung out with Lance on Twitter, finally met him and eventually spoke on one of his conference panels which really helped gather some thoughts on my experience, later attended the 2009 Media Ecology Association convention, and now find just how true Mike's goading was.  My central teacher to date is Harvey Sarles, I was a student of his in the early 90's, and have continued dialogue with him ever since. (You can learn more about Harvey from his post on his teachers.) I run his blog and function as a photo editor for him. Harvey, Lance, and Mike all seem like birds of a feather to me based on my meetings and readings of them and in what I've heard them say about each other in the past two years as I've helped connect them to each other.

It seems appropriate, being an anthro-oriented social media professional, that I feel you'll understand me better by the *people* that deeply influence me, rather than by the words I use to describe myself.

Hope you find interesting people and ideas here, please share yours.

- Daniel Latorre