I coined the term ‘Social Shopping’ and put it in the masthead of Wists, largely as a joke. The joke was that I could imagine people pitching an idea like Wists to VC’s as: look we’ve wedded social networking to shopping, i.e. community plus money equals more money. Unfortunately three people did pitch this and they all raised money, and one of them is actually rather good. I’ll post more about Wists and ‘social shopping’, over the next few weeks. In the mean time, it seems that It seems that Sucharita Mulpuru of Forrester and Kate Kaye of Click Z are seeing social shopping with a clear head. Click Z on social Shopping

On the way back from a nice walk this afternoon, I learned the truth about the BODIES…The Exhibition. At the South Street Seaport, near where we live. Some background to this. When I was a student I worked at the Royal Academy in London, during the holidays. In the basement there is a sculpture of a crucifiction, with one unusual aspect – its real. The artist, Stubbs, bought an executed prisoner’s corpse, flayed him, nailed him to a cross and took a plaster cast, in order to do anatomical studies. Seeing this a night in the darkened basement of a near deserted museum after closing time made some impact. Now I learn that plagiarized versions of the Van Hagens Bodyworks exhibitions, such as the ‘Bodies’ exhibition use corpses that probably come from executed Chinese prisoners, possibly prisoners of conscience. I have absolutely no problem with anatomical exhibits, however the use…