September 2008
Beyond the Flickering Screen: Re-situating e-books →
Instead of seeking to make an e-book culture a replacement for print culture, effectively placing the reading of books in a silo separated from other day-to-day activities, it might be better to situate e-books within a mobility culture, as part of the burgeoning range of social activities revolving around a connected, convergent mobile device
(via cartographer)
WatchNodal points video from Reboot 10, by Jyri Engeström (via cartographer)
WatchMining Wikipedia For Awesome Data
“More perspective. The stock market lost $1.2 trillion today. The RIAA sued...”
– Mike Hudack
WatchRoyksopp - Remind Me, a reminder of of all the complex interconnected systems that make everyday life possible, in music video form (via cartographer)
Renting Makes More Financial Sense Than... →
“I was convinced an Obama/McCain campaign would be measurably different on almost...”
– Stewart & Colbert
“The four or so years spent immersed in undergraduate study are intentionally and...”
– In Which We Are Indignant, “Collegial Fiction” by Jeff Goldberg on This Recording (via myownmelt)
WatchPlastic Logic Electronic Reader
Apple Extends Non-Disclosure to App Store... →
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David Laibson: Tweak Human Behavior to Fix the... →
Unlike classical economists, who assume everyone uses all available information to act in their self-interest, behavioral economists also study psychological factors to learn why consumers often act like confused procrastinators
Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch →
“Never do the impossible. People will expect you to do it forever after”
– P&F: The Programmer and the Elves: a Fairy Tale
“How has “elitism” become a bad word in American politics? There is...”
– Sam Harris on Sarah Palin and Elitism
WatchVideo of The Day: The Sticky Note Experiment
Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and... →
You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back.
Leadership →
Janna Raye:
Modern corporations suffer from systemic-level issues that emerge in top-down hierarchies. Managers are there to control staff and budgets, not to lead. Although you can make valiant and often successful attempts to control things and processes, you will never again be able to control people. We’ve evolved, basically, and the information age has had a lot to do with it. So we...
“On Unigo, the information is all free — “free,” of course, understood as a...”
– The College Issue - The Tell-All Campus Tour
“The people who ran the financial firms chose to program their risk-management...”
– How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers (via cartographer)
The iPhone Development Story →
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The 'Urban' Answer to 'Guitar Hero' →
That would be Beatmania then, an 10 year old grandparent of sorts of Guitar Hero, which I have buried in a cupboard somewhere via soupsoup:
The Gentleman's Guide to the Calling Card →
How the Music Business Spent the Summer Killing... →
“Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime”
– Sarah Palin
“As an open-source advocate, I thought your article on how social-networking...”
– factoryjoe’s to Technology Review on “Who Owns Your Friends?”
“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by...”
– Paul J Tillich, quoted by Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (via machinetext)
I'm a little confused…
azspot:
I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..
If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
If your name is Barack you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.
Graduate from Harvard law School and you are...
