What nobody wants to hear, but everyone needs to know A statement from Eric R. Pianka an ecologist who is perhaps the most blatent proponent of the idea that the world would be much better off with much less people on it.
Bill de hÓra: Eight Fallacies of Distributed Information Systems
start [SHiFT - Social and Human Ideas for Technology], a conference is Lisbon, too far in space and too near in time for me...
The Econophysics Blog: Tyranny of the Power Law (and Why We Should Become Eclectic)
The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
The New Yorker: THE SCENT OF THE NILE by CHANDLER BURR: Jean-Claude Ellena creates a new perfume.
Your guide to green electronics | Greenpeace International
Jaiku "the social phone book", basically an IM like way to broadcast your phone availability to a social network.
osMoz : Serge Lutens Interview, a perfumer and more.
The Big Picture: Is a Housing Crisis Approaching?
Business 2.0: Blogging for Dollars - September 1, 2006
THE RISK POOL: What’s behind Ireland’s economic miracle—and G.M.’s financial crisis? Gladwell on "dependency ratios" and pension plans and as often is the case it hits it cleanly and hard.
ippr - Institute for Public Policy Research "‘Climate porn’ turning off public from action". A well needed article on poor state of how environmental issues, and the way to their solutions are communicated to the world.
Talking Points Memo makes quite a point on the toll that occupation takes upon an armies ability to fight in an actual war.
The Big Picture: Does the Bond Market Have it All Wrong?
Business Model Design and Innovation: The Specialized Generalist or T-Shaped People
Display 2.0: A Look Forward to the High-Definition Web and Its Effect on Our Digital Experience :: UXmatters, Interesting although not particularly accurate in it's facts.
Michal Migurski's UX week talk on info visualization
Mike Arrington is a major league asshole, not quite sure what he has against Nick Carr, but I think it might have something to do with Nick daring to speak the truth about the delusions to democracy held by the rising tech elite Arrington so bravely champions.
Identity and Identification in a Networked World
A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Mexicans in America
"it directly supports my old argument that Google is basically the next RIAA."
Michael Bierut at UX Week "Innovation is overrated" Yeah! finally someone says it.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Great Unread
"A brief history of generative models for power law and lognormal distributions" (pdf)
The Long Tail: A billion dollar question With this one quote: "I've long argued that the "natural" shape of most markets is a powerlaw," Chris Anderson sums up his philosophy/long tail argument clearer than ever. And it's that "natural" part that really bothers me...
Missing the Breaking Point, Adam Richardson on "voluntary obsolescence".
There's Gold in Them Thar Smelly Hills, on landful mining which is something I've always wondered about...
The seven ways that people search the Web. By Paul Boutin
Purse Lip Square Jaw: "Technology, Privilege and Innovation: The Legal Perspective"
Urban Transport Issues Asia: 'Naked streets' and safe chaos
""I guess not everyone knows how to respond when oppurtunity knocks their house down"
Service Design Resources :: Emergence Conference :: Carnegie Mellon
Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe — one thing I'd ad is that it's a whole lot easier to go "carbon neutral" when you are born with a large farm property to provide all the trees...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Ongoing Nicholas Carr reminds the tech world of this thing called history...
Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)/LMN "Concept Book" for the Seattle Public Library
GBN: What If? The Art of Scenario Thinking for Nonprofits
Open the Future: OtF Core: Open Source Scenario Planning
BLDGBLOG: The Visionary State: An Interview with Erik Davis
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Slides for Repair @ Pecha Kucha
Back to Iraq 3.0: Dark Days Ahead, yow, Chris Allbritton is in Beirut and man it sounds awful.
Kevin Burton's Feed Blog: Technorati's Numbers are Wrong
Sprint chooses WiMax for high-speed wireless - Yahoo! News
Lunch over IP: How About an E-mail On That?, on what various communications techs are best used for.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Open source as metaphor
…My heart’s in Accra » Wikimania: Wikipedia and F/OSS - some challenging comparisons
Signum sine tinnitu--by Guy Kawasaki: Ten Questions with Seth Godin I'm not a huge fan of the guy and most of the interview is his trademarked brand of horseshit (Google open to criticism?, yeah right,) but the t-shirt observation is pretty interesting:
"Books are the new t-shirts. We used to buy t-shirts as a way of covering our hard abs. Now, though, the purpose of the t-shirt is to be a souvenir, to give us a concrete way to remember something that mattered to us—and to give us an easy way to spread that idea to others."
New York City Police Department’s proposed parade permit rules
Fabio Sergio on Jasper Morrison's "Crate" and Morrison's response and design ethics
Data Mining: Word Sense Disambiguation in Text Mining
Design Observer: Dangerous Beauty: The Art of the Shiv
Dean Baker on the housing bubble, and holding very little back, yikes.
BusinessWeek Online: Top 100 Global Brands Interactive Table
William Gibson on Lebanon, Thomas Kuhn and "Fourth Generation Warfare".
pasta and vinegar » Tips for doing business in SL
adaptive path » blog » blog archive » A Conversation with Steven Johnson, Part 2 as always interesting stuff from Johnson, although I still have some trouble with his definition of interface, which doesn't really leave much room for distinguishing between the surface structure for interacting with computers (this is what I'd call the interface layer) and the deep structure via which the computer handles the data (which I'd call the algorithmic and database layers). I think I see why he wants to roll all these together under the label "interface", for tying them together allows for a particular way of addressing the future of computers and information, but by vesting "interface" with a meaning that goes far beyond just the inputs and outputs of a computer system it robs a whole other more established approach of it's linguistic infrastructure, and in the end just muddies up the very issue he wishes to bring insight to.
Majora Carter on TED Talks, best of the Ted talks yet by far, god damn Carter is so much of a better proponent for environmentalism than Al Gore. Made me shiver, and it's 101º out here... Sustainable South Bronx is her org, support it if you can.
MicroISV on a Shoestring » Blog Archive » Google’s Lawyers Admit To gmail Privacy Leak
TED Blog: Jeff Han on TEDTalks, multitouch interfaces, "the interface just disappears"