February 2010
14 posts
“Following all the #TED tweets is totally the Allegory of the Cave. I kinda like...”
– robinsloan
Seven on Seven →
For New Yorkers, this looks pretty awesome:
Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new — be…
moot speaking at TED →
I think nonprofits should be the new start-ups:
In a brief question and answer exchange between moot and TED’s Chris Anderson, moot said that money wasn’t the goal of creating 4chan. “The…
Doesn't strategy drive you crazy?
aarondignan:
“You guys just do pure strategy, so it must drive you crazy that you think about stuff up in the clouds all day and then nothing gets done? Or if it does get done, it’s executed poorly?”
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First off, I think there are people who are very hands-on, and people who are very minds-on. Hands-on people need to create, it’s not enough for them to imagine. Minds-on people need to...
“As Internet culture has grown, we’ve come to romanticize certain kinds of...”
– Is ChatRoulette the Future of the Internet or Its Distant Past? — New York Magazine
“there is no culture here in California, only trash. And we who grew up here and...”
– Philip K. Dick scans the darkness in Disneyland’s shadow
For the life between buildings - some notes on the... →
There’s been lots of talk of it being a ‘third’ product, in-between iPhone and laptop. To me, this reminds me of ‘third places’. That’s a Ray Oldenburg term, of The Great Good Place, and generally refers to cafés, bars, libraries etc. Thus the iPad to me feels more like a product for third places rather than a third product. Its form factor and service model is defined for in-between spaces....
“We also know that it’s not that other Nineties favorite, an “information...”
– Baffler - What Does the Internet Look Like?
“The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people...”
– T. S. Eliot, as quoted here. (via dailymeh)
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“The Internet is a gigantic version of what they faced in the 1920s, when the...”
– David Aaronovitch talks about conspiracy theories on Salon, but touches on the internet’s role of spreading information that may not be authoritive. While the internet has increased the ease of publishing we do need to work on the literacy to understand the published items.
The Future of Publishing
designaday:
There have been a number of key historical events that have given the masses the ability to publish. The invention of the printing press was a huge advance. The advent of the web was another. Since then, we’ve had some smaller impacts such as self-publishing through sites like Lulu, blogging, YouTube, and podcasting. In each of these cases, technology has leveled the playing field,...