May 2012
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“And more generally this deal goes to prove that Wall Street acts very much like...”
– Facebook: The List of Incompetents | Felix Salmon
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“Social reading doesn’t create a new category. People excerpt and annotate and...”
– How We Will Read: Clay Shirky
May 4th
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Grant McCracken Spots A Culture Creation Trend At PSFK CONFERENCE NYC, Grant McCracken spoke about how he was looking at a trend where creative minds were taking culture and remixing it to make new culture. For his new book Culturematic, the ethnographer has studied Twitter users who mimicked an imaginary character in a real TV show, bar-owners who didn’t want their new establishment to be...
May 2nd
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April 2012
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The Gentleman Manufacturer QUIRKY AND SHAPEWAYS are putting the tools of manufacturing into the hands of the masses using 3D printers and social networks. New products, designs and fortunes will follow
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“For whatever reason, many refuse to accept that people might actually have...”
– Susan Fournier, This Is Why You Fall in Love With Brands
Apr 17th
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The central hypothesis of the project is that the character of an urban area is defined “not just by the the types of places found there, but also by the people who make the area part of their daily routine” and to this end, the researchers have prototyped social maps of New York City, San Francisco and Pittsburgh. Drawing on the analysis of check-in data, these maps propose new spatial...
Apr 16th
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“It used to be that web people “published websites” — like the site...”
– Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out
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“Facebook and Instagram are two distinct companies with two distinct...”
– Here is why Facebook bought Instagram, GigaOm
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“The original promise of the e-book was not a promise to the reader, it was a...”
– How We Will Read: Clay Shirky
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March 2012
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“Loving something is more than the act of “faving” or...”
– What Do You Love Online? - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic
Mar 29th
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Speculations on the origins of the Disney Haunted... →
Mar 28th
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“…But the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then...”
– Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Mar 28th
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New Trends In Hip-Hop: Two Blunts At Once →
hard-hitting reporting from The Awl
Mar 26th
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Obama Says 'If I Had a Son, He'd Look Like... →
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“Moments of insight are a very-well studied psychological phenomenon with two...”
– Jonah Lehrer: Fostering Creativity And Imagination In The Workplace
Mar 21st
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How Uniqlo realized that labor cost-cutting wasn't... →
This is easily the most interesting thing I’ve read today.
Mar 20th
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