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“ As I stare at my Twitter stream, I don’t feel like I’m staring at anything more substantial than data. Yes, it’s humans creating bits of information, but it’s humans behaving more like individual APIs than humans behaving like humans. As a consumer of Twitter, I find myself staring at that assembly line as product whizzes by. It’s nearly hypnotic and rarely impactful.”
“ Sometimes, Müller-Brockmann and I would get shitfaced and design stuff *off* the grid. We were such crazy bastards back then.”
AngryPaulRand makes me happy
“ Part of the reason forward-thinking media networks like Twitter succeed is because people want to believe that every immaterial thing they do is pertinent by default; it’s interesting because it happens to them, which translates as interesting to all.”
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So here’s where we find the creeping melancholy of modernity: The one thing all people are supposed to inherently desire – a daily subsistence that’s both meaningful and unpredictable – tends to be an incredibly rare commodity.
Chuck Klosterman – Eating the Dinosaur
You will not grow up to be president of the United States, or an astronaut, someone has to be a janitor.
“ The line between the world of Starship Troopers and Sarah Palin’s Twitter feed gets thinner every day.”
Arduino Tower Bridge on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
This project connects to the Tower Bridge twitter account and mimics the movements of the real tower bridge.
“ Twitter feels like conversation, ephemeral, written on water, designed to fade away. Blogging feels like notes, writing as thinking and rehearsing, to be kept and remembered, written on paper. And actually writing on paper, that’s still the best.”
“ As search engines begin to incorporate more and more opinion data into their results, the distinction between fact and opinion may start blurring to the point where, as David Byrne once put it, “facts all come with points of view.”
“ Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn’t usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible. Flickr lets me see what friends are eating for lunch, how they’ve redecorated their bedroom, their latest haircut. Twitter tells me when they’re hungry, what technology is currently frustrating them, who they’re having drinks with tonight.”
Christopher Baker | Murmur Study
A live Twitter visualization and archive.
