May 2012
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Google’s head of news: Newspapers are the new... →
On how the newspapers got to where they are today:
We look back at the 40 golden years of newspaper profitability as if things had been structured that way forever. But these four decades were triggered by an earlier media disruption: television. The rise of television advertising caused a contraction in the newspaper business, where major metropolitan markets went from supporting 4-5 newspapers...
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YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them. →
YKK is a fantastic story. While not completely analogous, it reminds me of the way Apple goes after its markets. Read the following quote and consider how Apple retains control of its own means of maintaining quality and innovation:
Founded by Tadao Yoshida in Tokyo in 1934, YKK stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha (which roughly translates as Yoshida Company Limited). The young Yoshida...
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David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization... →
David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.
Big Data or Too Much Information? | Innovations →
Like closets and the ‘stuff’ we accumulate to fill them, stat continues to exceed our ability to find, store or consume it effectively.
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“Information overload is not the problem; you want all the information. It’s...”
– Clay Shirky | Yammer, NationalField, And The Future Of How We Collaborate At Work (via courtenaybird)
“Our conversation came about last month after I finished reading Code and Other...”
– Larry Lessig on Facebook, Apple, and the Future of “Code” | John Battelle’s Search Blog
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“Design history books abound, but they tend to be organized by chronology and...”
– 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design | Brain Pickings
Intelligence a genetic mistake.
Badly copied genome boosted brains, kinda
It’s not quite the “key to intelligence”, but a study published in the journal Cell at least offers a hint to how human brains changed post-hominid: a miscopied gene that seems to let the brain form more connections, faster. The paper finds that a gene dubbed SRGAP2 has, during cell divisions, been incompletely copied three times in human evolution: once...
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“Few ideas hold more sway among entrepreneurs and investors these days than...”
– Peter Fader comes across as a thoughtful contrarian regarding the value of Big Data.
Is There Big Money in Big Data? - Technology Review
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“Stories aren’t merely essential to how we understand the world — they are how we...”
– Another book I wish I had time to read right now. It posits a ‘unified theory of storytelling’ that, in and of itself, is worthy.
The Storytelling Animal: The Science of How We Came to Live and Breathe Stories | Brain Pickings
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“We create the new not generally through some mad moment of inspiration in...”
– If only for this quote, the book Dancing about Architecture: A Little Book of Creativity byPhil Beadle is worth checking out. /ht to Brain Pickings.
Dancing About Architecture: A Field Guide to Creativity | Brain Pickings
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Dispatch from Under the Radar 2012 –... →
frankartale:
The show had a good line up of companies once again and one of my investments, AppFog, won the People Choice which is the “hot company” online vote by people attending or not. The keynote from Yobie Benjamin, Global CTO from Citigroup, had some really good information and its worth watching it…
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Teaching an old blog new tricks?
I’ve enjoyed using tumblr over the past few weeks to start collecting bits and pieces about my avocations. Design, architecture, maps, music, modern art and literature. I notice that the ease with which I can pick something up, organize the post, tag it and then ‘move on’ was missing when I thought about putting something in my ‘real blog’ at telematica.com.
The...
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Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State →
tetw:
by Carl Zimmer
Somehow we have evolved a way to switch between handling the here and now and contemplating long-term objectives. It may be no coincidence that most of the thoughts that people have during mind wandering have to do with the future.
