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Stuff I like
These are little snippets from the internet that I've recently enjoyed. I've split my posts about mobile, attention data and other aspects of the future of the web into New Cartographer.
The Candidate
An interesting article from 2004 about Obama as he ran for his first senate seat. Heres some choice quotes: (via teacup)
“In Republican circles, we’ve always feared that Barack would become a rock star of American politics.”
and:
Barack had been reluctant to take even a semester off from teaching while campaigning, partly because he needs the income. To survive this campaign financially, the Obamas will take out a second mortgage on their apartment.
The universal explanation for Simon’s near-universal popularity is “integrity,” and this spring I heard the word a lot from people discussing Obama. It refers to consistency and incorruptibility, but also to a refusal to resort to smear politics
- OH: There's a huge crowd of people at the white house now.
- OH: Please tell me they're going to storm the gates and drag him out.
DIYcity: How do you want to reinvent your city?
Twitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps - we use these things more and more in our daily routines to make our lives better. But can we also use them to remake our cities altogether? How can these technologies be applied to transform urban spaces, changing them from the centralized, hard-coded things they are today into finely-tuned, fluid, user-operated systems that are efficient, sustainable and fit for life in the 21st century?
“ Only problem, other than the fact that he struggles with basic grammar and syntax: Bush is a hugely unpopular outgoing president, and most of the country hates him. Publishers are wondering what the market for a potential Bush memoir would be, and the consensus is: um, awkward!
Books: Nobody Wants Bush’s Memoirs
Books: Nobody Wants Bush’s Memoirs
“ We’re debating [whether to build] a rail line out from our national capital to its leading international airport. In China they have a 12-minute maglev from Shanghai airport to the city center. They’re not debating these kinds of things.
Robert Lang, urban planner (via yourmonkeycalled)
Robert Lang, urban planner (via yourmonkeycalled)