January 2012
21 posts
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
3 tags
“…he is forced to represent the individual as a completely passive victim of the...”
– Baudrillard on the difficulty to grasp people’s needs via Nicolas Nova
3 tags
2 tags
“Information and power are inherently related. Our ability to process and...”
– The Information Diet – Clay Johnson makes a case for conscious consumption in the age of “information overload.”
2 tags
“In a 2011 telephone survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found...”
– Teenagers Sharing Passwords as Show of Affection - NYTimes.com
2 tags
2 tags
“If most of the people we encounter online are weak ties rather than close...”
– Steven Johnson (steven) > Online echo chambers: A study of 250 million Facebook users reveals the Web isn’t as polarized as we thought.
“If we are honest, we must admit that one aspect of the technium is to make holes...”
– Kevin Kelly | Making Holes in Our Heart
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
“Here’s how it works: You snap a photo of your meal and caption it. The app...”
– I don’t know if this is the answer, but it’s original and insightful. It’s the most promising approach I’ve seen in the emerging world of comparable approaches.
Massive Health iPhone App Gets You To Eat Better, Using The Crowd’s IQ | Co.Design
4 tags
“Too many people, he remarks, and maybe kids in particular, “are scared of...”
– MakerBot’s 3-D Printers Let Consumers Dream Up Prototypes Of Pretty Much Anything. But Do We Need More Plastic?
2 tags
4 tags
4 tags
1 tag
2 tags
new-aesthetic:
Photos shared with the popular software Instagram are usually square in format, not unlike the cover to a record album. The format leads inevitably to a question: if a given image were the cover to a record album, what would the album’s music sound like?
Instagr/am/bient: 25 Sonic Postcards, via Dan C.
3 tags
“Whether through the mainstreaming of bespoke and DIY culture, with things like...”
– BBC News - Viewpoint: AI will change our relationship with tech
2 tags
“Like a forest getting older, our social network usage will continue to...”
– There Is No Next Facebook: How Multiple Social Networks Will Peacefully Coexist (via courtenaybird)
December 2011
23 posts
2 tags
“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– The Dangerous Effects of Reading | David Tate
3 tags
1 tag
“Most commentary on social media ignores an obvious truth—that the value of...”
– Too Much Buzz - The Economist
3 tags
From 'An Internet of People'
Over the past few years, a bunch of web-based marketplaces have gotten popular – Etsy, Kickstarter, AirBnb, to name a few. Many of these business ideas had been tried before but are succeeding only now.
When a trend like this emerges, it’s always interesting to ask “why now?” For example, for almost a decade, entrepreneurs tried to create video sharing services like YouTube, but only succeeded...
3 tags
“Facebook’s impending problem is that even if the company enables future...”
– The Law of Online Sharing | Technology Review
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
“In a way, new technologies have made us all like Baudelaire. We are intoxicated...”
– The Smart Set: Privacy Policy - October 13, 2011 (via wildcat2030)
3 tags
4 tags
“Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably...”
– Mortimer Adler, writing in 1940, makes a case for marginalia as the yin-yang of reading/writing (via curiositycounts)
4 tags
2 tags
4 tags
“It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told...”
– Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy (via buzz)
(via benkraal, Dan W)
2 tags
“And we morph again, from a manufacturing economy to a service economy to a...”
– Smart piece from Dan Frommer on why code should be the second language you teach your kids. Couldn’t agree more. (via arainert)
1 tag
2 tags
“The great thing about the web is linking. I don’t care how ugly it looks and how...”
– Scripting News: Why apps are not the future
3 tags
“If you’re not failing every now and then, you’re probably not...”
– Why I Hire People Who Fail | Jeff Stibel - HBR
4 tags
“Good design can effectively differentiate a good solution, and bad design can...”
– Google Circles and Path 2.0: How good UI design cannot fix a broken solution | Rian van der Merwe
6 tags
1 tag
Rest In Peace by Prince Ramashared from exfm
2 tags
“A few more posters started appearing in the window for other services – photo...”
– The Groupon Shop | Matt Locke
3 tags
“The belief system of the Internet is that everyone should have the freedom to...”
– The Internet, innovation and learning | Joi Ito
2 tags
Watchaltnytterfarlig:
“The A-Z of Internet metaphors” by Tim Malbon from Made by Many at Metaphwoar! 2011. (via poke)
November 2011
37 posts
2 tags
Watchcuriositycounts:
Intriguing tool converts your Amazon recommendations into a network visualization (via)
3 tags
“Too Big to Know is about what happens to knowledge when it becomes a network....”
– What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?: Scientific American
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
4 tags
