Research Groups Boom in Washington – New York Times tags: elizabeth_bumiller, nyt, politics, research, richard_florida, think_tanks, washington_dc Think tanks are apparently a booming industry, as Elizabeth Bumiller’s article shows. Richard Florida (“Tanked,” see http://tinyurl.com/35apn9) observes: “A DC insider once told me these so-called think tanks don’t so much create new intellectual capital as repackage and […]
Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts — Trendsetting Annotated tags: business, duncan_watts, economic_anthropology, fast_company, influentials, malcolm_gladwell, network_theory, tipping_point, trendsetting Article by FC’s Clive Thompson on the latest work by Duncan Watts, who argues against the idea the trends are created by “influentials” who bring matters to a tipping point. Influentials On The Web […]
Lettering Grows in Brooklyn: Voice: AIGA Journal of Design: Writing: AIGA Annotated tags: brooklyn, design, lettering, place_making, reference, typeface – fascinating project about documenting various typefaces in Brooklyn It’s time to overhaul copyright law | Technology | guardian.co.uk Annotated tags: copyfight, copyright, cory_doctorow, law, socialjustice Excellent points by Cory Doctorow on how “folk” copyright usage […]
Boogie: Bleak Street Lifes (PingMag – The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things”) Annotated tags: boogie, brooklyn, drug_addiction, gangs, interview, nyc, photography, ping_mag, street_life Interview with “Serbian photographer Boogie [who] grew up in the war-torn region of former Yugoslavia, documenting protests and the disturbing portraits of skinheads. After moving from Belgrade to Brooklyn in […]
A slight departure from matters of urbanism, if you will. When the spouse & I became a parents, we were compelled to re-examine all sorts of ideological beliefs, opting instead for principles and for what works (vs. principles and what we’d like to have work, or should work, or would be nice if it worked… […]
Why is it that some of the most salient material presents itself — and in the greatest quantities — when one already has a mountain of mental meal on one’s plate, with nary a cranial cranny remaining into which the new material may be stuffed? I’m at the point where even bookmarking to Diigo isn’t […]
Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass — New York Magazine tags: creatives, psychology, reference, schadenfreude, vanessa_grigoriadis, victoria References to a “creative underclass” and “roiling Schadenfreude” of course set off bells for anyone familiar with the Victoria BC scene, which has long sustained itself on highly creative (often volatile) people living on substandard wages. […]
The Mobile City – TV glasses – watching video in private Annotated tags: anonymity, cities, privacy, public_space, technology Mobile City asks all the right questions (in this case, about video glasses, a visual sort of iPod or Walkman device). Eg.: “…it’s another addition to the array of media to shield off private media consumption in […]
How to make housing affordable (The Toronto Star) Annotated tags: affordability, canada, cities, development, socialjustice, toronto “By relying on donations from suppliers, a Brampton developer has managed to build high-quality abodes for low-income families. (…) When the 16-storey “Chapelview” project, on John St. in downtown Brampton, is finished next year, it will provide 200 apartments […]
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