February 2012
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“The editing function has been replaced by the filtering function. The former,...”
– If you haven’t yet read the book By Design: Why There Are No Locks On The Bathroom Doors In The Hotel Louis XIV And Other Object Lessons, then consider this the most exuberant recommendation ever. It’s a classic from 1982 (reissued in 2005) by Ralph Caplan, a god among design writers, who mastered...
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“Happiness is the most important metric in personal tech. If it improves lives,...”
– —Brian Lam, The Wirecutter. cf. Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and ratings driven media economy, too much of the content these days is designed to be just like junk food to quickly boost quantifiable viewership. If you make content that is the intellectual equivalent of...
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January 2012
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“‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are...”
– “Meryl Streep: Force of Nature,” Vogue (via thatluciegirl)
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“The insular cortex of the brain, he argues, is the area of our brains where we...”
– “The (Neurobiological) Sweet Spot,” Geoffrey Montgomery in Lucky Peach, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2011. (via getladle)
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Ladle: Food Sovereignty law passed in Sedgwick,... →
Maybe the citizens of tiny Sedgwick on the Maine coast were listening to the calls of Dave Milano, Ken Conrad, and others for more trust and community, and less rigid one-size-fits-all food regulation.
On Friday evening, they became perhaps the first locale in the country to pass a “Food Sovereignty” law. It’s the proposed ordinance I first described last fall, when I introduced the...
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“You always see who looked at what. This one queer action—showing who is paying...”
– The Social Network that Stole Christmas (via brianoberkirch)
Mat is a great writer and he almost always writes what I’ve been thinking.
Not with Path, though. I wrote about Path’s launch last November for Fast Company; the ‘viewed’ feature that Mat likes so much freaked me...
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December 2011
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“Our Internet intellectuals lack the intellectual ambition, and the basic...”
– The Internet Intellectual | The New Republic
By Evgeny Morozov on October 12, 2011 (via danpatterson)
This next part is from Kenyatta:
It’s a shame that both the accusation above and the review that this quote comes from are so filled with anger and bile because it clouds what’s actually a very...
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“According to the Center for an Urban Future, “freelance businesses has been a...”
– - Anthony Townsend, Art as Personal Business in the City: Brooklyn’s Creative Freelance Economy via IFTF’s Future Now
I love Brooklyn.
(via arainert)
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Global Voices Online: The 'At Risk' Blogger's... →
globalvoices:
In 2011, we have witnessed the incredible power of bloggers and social media users capturing the world’s attention through their activism. At the same time, regimes appear to be quickening the pace of their cat-and-mouse game with netizens.
Aware of the threats to their safety, bloggers often devise contingency plans in the event they are detained.
EFF together with Global...