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The documentary ‘Thinking Cities’ deals with one of...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:22:06 +0000

The documentary ‘Thinking Cities’ deals with one of the most dramatic societal trends happening today: urbanization.

Crowdsourced Moscow: Can participation in urban development be...

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:48:50 +0000

Crowdsourced Moscow: Can participation in urban development be open to all citizens online? Andrei Goncharov has devised a model for how this could work. As a student at the new Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, Goncharov developed a game prototype called “Crowdsourced Moscow,” which envisions a compelling approach to technology-enabled urban governance.

Insight Labs lures the smartest, most creative, most influential...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:45:40 +0000

Insight Labs lures the smartest, most creative, most influential people out of boardrooms and darkened auditoriums to get them engaged in designing a better world. Now that has to be a good thing!

mbooth: A quote from Scott Belsky’s Making Ideas Happen, a must...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:35:32 +0000

mbooth:

A quote from Scott Belsky’s Making Ideas Happen, a must read for anyone who has ever struggled with what Scott calls the ‘project plateau’ as ideas shift from bright shiny and new to more and more check boxes on the to-do list. This is one of a handful of highlights I go back to when pushing through creative projects and this book, along with a lot of the fantastic writing and content at Scott’s the99percent.com often seem to help me re-energize and get back on track. What motivates you to be passionate about your work? What writing, sites, books, or strategies have you used and developed to make great ideas happen?

-Jamie

this isn't happiness.: 10 Tips on Writing Well from David Ogilvy

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:52:04 +0000

this isn't happiness.: 10 Tips on Writing Well from David Ogilvy :

nevver:

Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing. Read it three times.

Write the way you talk. Naturally.

Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.

Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.

…

futuramb: The Future of Money (by theRSAorg) where Dave Birch...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:45:35 +0000

futuramb:

The Future of Money (by theRSAorg) where Dave Birch argues that the mobile phone and community based currencies are the future of money.

newsweek: President Obama’s just hangin’ out, chattin’ up the...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:16:15 +0000

newsweek:

President Obama’s just hangin’ out, chattin’ up the Internet.

Getting Up is a documentary about LA-based graffiti artist Tony...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:58:39 +0000

Getting Up is a documentary about LA-based graffiti artist Tony ‘Tempt’ Quan, who developed Lou Gehrig’s disease, which paralized him. Though unable to move from his hospital bed, Quan has been using technology that allows him to continue his artwork using just the movement of his eyes.

thenextweb: Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp announced today...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:17:03 +0000

thenextweb:

Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp announced today at the Digitial Life Design (DLD) conference that the service is now serving 120 million people and 15 billion pageviews every month. Speaking about how Tumblr differs from traditional “editorial” services like WordPress, Karp quoted figures from website traffic measuring company Quantcast, not directly referencing internal figures from its own analytics. (via Tumblr: Serving 120m People, 15bn Pageviews A Month)

Focus On The Users have created a tool that uses Google’s own...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:36:29 +0000

Focus On The Users have created a tool that uses Google’s own relevance measure—the ranking of their organic search results—to determine what social content should appear in the areas where Google+ results are currently hardcoded.

COMMON is a collaborative brand and creative community for...

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:35:23 +0000

COMMON is a collaborative brand and creative community for accelerating social change. Founded in January of 2011 by Alex and Ana Bogusky, John Bielenberg and Rob Schuham, COMMON supports, connects and celebrates those designing a new era of socially-minded enterprise. Also worth checking out Rob Schuham’s TEDx talk from April 2011.

Those damn talented French!

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:14:11 +0000

Those damn talented French!

Howl, from Natalie Bettelheim and Sharon Michaeli

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:04:31 +0000

Howl, from Natalie Bettelheim and Sharon Michaeli

"Flipboard has a core quality that makes it special: it turns noise into signal. Across several..."

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:24:36 +0000

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Flipboard has a core quality that makes it special: it turns noise into signal. Across several content sources, Flipboard is more than an aggregator, it is an improver of content. It sharpens the influx. The two social networks that are built into the device are prime examples of this. Flipboard is a near-perfect (see above gripes) casual Facebook and Twitter application. Flipboard takes the tweets, and turns that feed into a readable, coherent, content spread. From tweets to product, from Facebook statuses to well organized nuggets of information, Flipboard brings in text and gives you a book.

In a way, Flipboard is the opposite of TweetDeck. TweetDeck takes Twitter, and makes it more like Twitter; it’s the same idea on steroids. Flipboard takes a Twitter stream, and spits out someting wholly different. From a nearly unreadable stream of blather, Flipboard returns to you a curated short magazine, for free.

Twitter lists are perhaps the single strongest use of Flipboard, if you are a power Twitter user. If you are like me, you have and use lists to track topics and news. Flipboard takes this more focused feed and works its magic, but as the input is cleaner, the output is stronger. I can only imagine what all Scoble’s lists are like, you can only access some inside the application.

I hope that I have made my point clear, that Flipboard is the tool that we have all been waiting for to turn our millions of notes, blogs, tweets, posts, and updates and make them into something consumable. It’s like we have been eating our content raw, and Flipboard is the fire that cooked it for us for the first time.

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- Alex Wilhelm, Why Flipboard Matters - The Next Web (via underpaidgenius)

zenofawesome: Winter Has Arrived And All I Need Is You (8tracks...

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:27:15 +0000

zenofawesome:

Winter Has Arrived And All I Need Is You (8tracks Playlist)

In the dead of winter when the world is in a slumber as it’s blanketed by the snow, all I need is you wrapped under my arms. All I need is your warm soul touching mine. All I need is your smile to light up the grey skies outside. All I need is you and only you.

Track Listing:

Perth - Bon Iver

The Plains/Bitter Dancer - Fleet Foxes

The Funeral - Band of Horses

We Won’t Need Legs To Stand - Sufjan Stevens

Easier - Grizzly Bear

Sé Lest - Sigur Rós

Lakehouse - Of Monsters and Men

Minnesota, WI - Bon Iver

Yellow Light - Of Monsters and Men

Detlef Schrempf - Band Of Horses

The Past And Pending - The Shins

La Noyee - Yann Tiersen

Avril 14th - Aphex Twin

Fuck Me - Yann Tiersen

Horchata - Vampire Weekend

Generator ^ First Floor - Freelance Whales

Mykonos - Fleet Foxes

Fine For Now - Grizzly Bear

Smoke - Moddi

Armchairs - Andrew Bird

“One kind word can warm three winter months.” -Japanese Proverb

Hipstamatic Introduces "World's First Social Camera"

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:02:52 +0000

Hipstamatic Introduces "World's First Social Camera":

iPhone photo app maker Synthetic thinks it has found a way to combine the suspense of analog film with digital convenience through the new Hipstamatic D-Series app for iOS it’s releasing on Thursday. The D-Series — billed as a “disposable camera for iOS” — allows groups of iPhone-toting fri…

Kathryn Schulz makes a powerful and moving case for embracing...

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:23:50 +0000

Kathryn Schulz makes a powerful and moving case for embracing our regrets.

shortformblog: think-progress: Clothing company Patagonia...

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:09:40 +0000

shortformblog:

think-progress:

Clothing company Patagonia tells shoppers “Don’t buy this jacket” on Cyber Monday:

Because Patagonia wants to be in business for a good long time – and leave a world inhabitable for our kids – we want to do the opposite of every other business today. We ask you to buy less and to reflect before you spend a dime on this jacket or anything else.

Unlike every other company out there, Patagonia appears to be less concerned about earning every last penny it can. Interesting.

bitchville: Tools in the past and today.

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:22:13 +0000

bitchville:

Tools in the past and today.

99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement | Animation |...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:26:40 +0000

99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement | Animation | guardian.co.uk