asimone + culture   7

How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write
There are many observations, good and bad, in this aritcle. Worth a read and expect to hear more on the subject from me.
google  technology  culture  news  book  ebooks  publishing 
april 2009 by asimone
Hipster - Wikipedia
It is difficult to give a precise definition of a hipster, because hipster culture is a "mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior[s]."[3] One commentator argues that “hipsterism fetishizes the authentic” elements of all of the “fringe movements of the postwar era—Beat, hippie, punk, even grunge,” and draws on the “cultural stores of every unmelted ethnicity” and “gay style”, and “regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity” and a sense of irony.
hipster  wikipedia  indie  subcultures  culture 
november 2008 by asimone
American Thinker: Sarah Palin and the Two Americas
It is not the divide between rich and poor which soon will be causing serious pain on the left. Sarah Palin's pending nomination for Vice President is exposing the depth of the cultural divide between Middle America and the leftists who have taken over the education, media, and cultural establishment of our country.
palin  politics  culture 
september 2008 by asimone
Infovore » Playing Together: What Games Can Learn from Social Software
There’s a strange piece of slow glass between the web industry and the games industry. It’s strange because whilst stuff passes through it in both directions, it seems to move faster towards the web, and slower towards games. In the past 2-3 years, there’s been a lot of talk in web software about making applications more playful and gamelike. Now that people have done that - and succeeded - I guess it’s an appropriate time to return the favour.
web  games  design  culture 
august 2008 by asimone
“Where do people find the time?” : clusterflock
A brilliant mini-lecture on how and why we use free time. This is one of the more brilliant things I have seen online in years.
web2.0  time  culture  history  anthropology 
april 2008 by asimone

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