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Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why: The disappearance of one of the world’s most beloved computer programmers. - Slate Magazine
whoops, wasn't on Wired, it was Slate
programming  ruby  rails  why  culture  development 
27 minutes ago by earth2marsh
X Talks Tech | Project Heroics = Bad Management, Poor Leadership
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heroes  heroism  culture  tech  management  problems 
5 days ago by earth2marsh
Text from Xcode
Texts from Xcode are hilarious
xcode  texts  humor  culture 
6 days ago by earth2marsh
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
scathing indictment of Yahoo squandering Flickr
Flickr  Yahoo  merger  acquisition  culture  community 
14 days ago by earth2marsh
Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal
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comic  history  oatmeal  science  Tesla  humor  culture  Edison 
14 days ago by earth2marsh
banana peel trucker hat
My kids were grumpy at breakfast this morning, so I had this idea to make a quick banana peel trucker hat for the banana to wear using the peel of the banana. This cheered them up and it made the banana look relatively hip.

How to make:

1 or 2 bananas. One to make the hat, one to model the hat. This could also be made using one banana. Carve the shape of the hat using an x-acto knife. Leave one of the banana peel sides longer, to make the rim of the hat. Most bananas come with a little sticker. Use this sticker to serve as the logo on the hat, if you want your hat to have a logo
banana  hat  art  peel  culture  humor 
15 days ago by earth2marsh
Listverse
The piece of plastic covering the ends of your shoelace, so you don’t have to moisten them with spit to thread them through your shoelace holes
shoelace  words  language  culture 
19 days ago by earth2marsh
Building a great work culture: in praise of Hack Day - Pam The Webivore
Another favorite feature of mine about Hack Day is that it doesn't matter if you don't finish. Remember, it's Hack Day! Low stress. It's all about fun and creativity. So everyone talks about what they worked on, shows off what they did do, talks about the hurdles and what they learned. And everyone listening gets to see the smart, talented people they work with show off their stuff.
That's the part of it that makes it so rewarding for the company. It's a great team builder, lets people have fun, and makes them excited about the place they get to come to work every day. If that's not a company win for setting aside one day ... I don't know what else is.
Hackday  company  culture 
4 weeks ago by earth2marsh
NYT: Angry Birds, Farmville and Oth
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videogames  nytimes  culture  mobile 
7 weeks ago by earth2marsh
Rands In Repose: Hacking is Important
"ebook doesn’t want to be a big company. Like Google before it, Facebook took the time to carefully document the reasons they were not intending to become a traditional company in their S1 filing, and while this letter is positioned to the future legion of investors, the letter is a recipe for Facebook employees:

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have to go fix it — often in the face of people who say it’s impossible or are content with the status quo."
hacking  culture  business  development  programming  Facebook 
10 weeks ago by earth2marsh
The Way of Node
"Node is a platform.
Node is JavaScript.
Node is callbacks & Streams.
Node is not pretending it is blocking when it is not.
Node is not going to include that module.
Node is for building.
Node is a community.
Node is faster.
Node is fun."
node  nodejs  dev  javascript  principles  culture 
10 weeks ago by earth2marsh
We, the Web Kids - Pastebin.com
"To us, the Web is a sort of shared external memory. We do not have to remember unnecessary details: dates, sums, formulas, clauses, street names, detailed definitions. It is enough for us to have an abstract, the essence that is needed to process the information and relate it to others. Should we need the details, we can look them up within seconds. Similarly, we do not have to be experts in everything, because we know where to find people who specialise in what we ourselves do not know, and whom we can trust. People who will share their expertise with us not for profit, but because of our shared belief that information exists in motion, that it wants to be free, that we all benefit from the exchange of information. Every day: studying, working, solving everyday issues, pursuing interests. We know how to compete and we like to do it, but our competition, our desire to be different, is built on knowledge, on the ability to interpret and process information, and not on monopolising it."
culture  internet  kids  copyright  memory  manifesto 
february 2012 by earth2marsh
Quiz Show | This American Life
from where I got the concept of, "informing people against their will."
thislife  american  life  culture  inform  will 
february 2012 by earth2marsh
7x7 big eat 2012
food  culture  list  lists  sanfrancisco  pdf 
january 2012 by earth2marsh
Simon Rich: “Center of the Universe” : The New Yorker
work  newyorker  culture  god  love  humor  from delicious
january 2012 by earth2marsh
TinyWrld // If you can be patient for one minute, you’ll get a...
video  Vimeo  Sanfrancisco  Timelapse  Art  Culture  from delicious
november 2011 by earth2marsh
BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 (2011) : Irina Werning - Photographer
Recreating old photos with the same people.
photography  photos  project  time  age  future  art  culture  inspiration  from delicious
november 2011 by earth2marsh
THE ROBOT AND THE BABY
Within an hour, T-shirts appeared with the slogan, ``Love the fucking baby yourself, you goddamn robot.'' Other commercial tie-ins developed within days.
fiction  robots  society  robot  ai  baby  scifi  culture  satire  from delicious
november 2011 by earth2marsh
LukeW | UI16: Experience Leadership
"Kurt Lewin’s model of change: Unfreeze -shake people loose from existing norms. Transition, then refreeze. The new culture needs time to take root.
John Kotter’s model: develop a guiding coalition, and get short-term wins. Don’t decide to boil the ocean upfront. A coalition lets you have multiple change leaders not just one person.
Continuous change model: there are four types of change agents. It starts with influencers or evangelists. They sell ideas to the people who can make change. Then autocrats (people with power) can dictate and move things into practice. Then architects are required to establish the systems needed to put things into place. Finally educators tell the stories and help train people."
change  culture  design  from delicious
november 2011 by earth2marsh
Brilliant Light Paintings by Brian Hart
Wow. Amazing, detailed light paintings.
light  painting  lightpainting  photography  art  culture  inspiration  from delicious
november 2011 by earth2marsh
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA NOSES - Page 1 of 12
oh wow. via roberta.
humor  culture  noses  tumblr  blog  turtels  tmnt  from delicious
october 2011 by earth2marsh
Google Engineer: “Google+ is a Prime Example of Our Complete Failure to Understand Platforms” — SiliconFilter
epic rant on google not acting like a platform
platforms  rant  google  amazon  engineering  culture  apis  inspiration  from delicious
october 2011 by earth2marsh
Everything Is A Remix: THE MATRIX on Vimeo
Compares scenes from the Matrix to other video works.
matrix  mashup  remix  video  allusion  originality  creativity  culture  from delicious
october 2011 by earth2marsh
[from arosner] Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software
names  programming  culture  data  design  from google
september 2011 by earth2marsh
Dark side of the lens
Video  Dslr  Photography  ocean  surf  surfing  art  culture  inspiration  from delicious
august 2011 by earth2marsh
Company culture
Culture  Company  !to_read  from delicious
august 2011 by earth2marsh
Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com
"Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out."
culture  video  music  metro  dc  washington  joshua_bell  from delicious
july 2011 by earth2marsh
[from arosner] No More Clock-Punching : The Last Word On Nothing
sleep  culture  life  social  anthropology  time  from google
july 2011 by earth2marsh
Creative Review - The Art of the Factory
Culture  Art  Industry  Mistakes  Errors  Inspiration  from delicious
july 2011 by earth2marsh
On the (un?)importance of design
"But it is useful to decide where you come down on the question of design in your startup, because if it’s important you’d better work on that right now and develop a consistent culture of valuing design through-and-through, and if it’s not important you’d better decide what is important and nail those things all the harder, because you’ll be competing with people who are using superior design to cover up their lack of competency in those same areas."
design  startup  culture  from delicious
june 2011 by earth2marsh
(Preoccupations) Jeff Bezos on innovation: Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time’ - GeekWire
Amazon  Bezos  jeff_bezos  Innovation  Bets  Kindle  aws  Culture  Inspiration  from google
june 2011 by earth2marsh
YouTube - Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
video  culture  writing  books  stories  kurt_vonnegut  awesome  presentation  from delicious
may 2011 by earth2marsh
Enterprise Collaboration Requires Critical New Skills
collaboration  enterprise  culture  work 
march 2011 by earth2marsh
A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail
"We will still be annoyed by people who pun, but we will be able to show them mercy because punning will be revealed to be some sort of connectopathic glitch: The punner, like someone with Tourette's, has no medical ability not to pun"
culture  humor  pessimism  puns  technology  trends  future 
october 2010 by earth2marsh
YouTube - Repurpose
"Last year this short documentary came out on hardware hacking called Repurpose. It’s based on the projects of a Montreal hackerspace called Foulab. It does a good job at describing and explaining circuit bending and general hardware hacking, and why people do it. It also gives a nice look into what many hackerspaces are like — a worldwide phenomenon of grassroots labs like Foulab that provide a means for hobbyists and amateurs (in the best sense of the word) to explore their passions. " via thought exploratorium
!to_watch  hacking  hardware  documentary  diy  community  culture  technology  hacker  video 
september 2010 by earth2marsh
Tradeoffs
From David Foster Wallace's 1995 essay, The String Theory: ... it's better for us not to know the kinds of sacrifices the professional-grade athlete has made to get so very good at one particular thing. Oh, we'll invoke lush cliches about the lonely heroism of Olympic athletes, the pain and analgesia of football, the early rising and hours of practice and restricted diets, the preflight celibacy, et cetera. But the actual facts of the sacrifices repel us when we see them: basketball geniuses who cannot read, sprinters who dope themselves, defensive tackles who shoot up with bovine hormones until they collapse or explode. We prefer not to consider closely the shockingly vapid and primitive comments uttered by athletes in postcontest interviews or to consider what impoverishments in one's mental life would allow people actually to think the way great athletes seem to think. Note the way "up close and personal" profiles of professional athletes strain so hard to find…"
sports  heroes  dfw  david_foster_wallace  culture  worship 
august 2010 by earth2marsh
What Happened to Yahoo
"By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto pyramid scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of "Eureka!" I was shouting "Sell!""
paul_graham  hackers  entrepreneurship  business  yahoo  startups  search  technology  lessons  history  internet  advertising  culture 
august 2010 by earth2marsh
DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
"Pervasive wireless communication, he believes will "bring us back to behaviour patterns that were natural to us and destroy behaviour patterns that were brought about by the limitations of technology." We are natural villagers. For most of mankind’s history we have lived in very small communities in which we knew everybody and everybody knew us. But gradually there grew to be far too many of us, and our communities became too large and disparate for us to be able to feel a part of them, and our technologies were unequal to the task of drawing us together. But that is changing. Interactivity. Many-to-many communications. Pervasive networking. These are cumbersome new terms for elements in our lives so fundamental that, before we lost them, we didn’t even know to have names for them."
douglas_adams  essay  future  geek  humor  interesting  internet  media  sociology  society  technology  essays  culture 
july 2010 by earth2marsh
Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? Answered by Insiders
awesome excerpts from a Quora post
paypal  culture  productivity  startup  management  entrepreneurship  entrepreneur  startups  strategy  success  tips 
june 2010 by earth2marsh
Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan on Vimeo
"Hayaku: A time lapse journey through Japan. Japan is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. This is my Japan. This is one of the many reasons why I love Japan. I shot this in many locations around Japan in the summer of 2009. Some of the location include Tokyo, Matsuyama, Imabari, Nagano, Gifu, and Ishizushisan. I started this as a personal project to try and capture the beauty that I see in Japan. It started as just that... But now that I have finished, I see it only as a beginning. This video, along with SAIJO MATSURI (www.vimeo.com/7458088) is just the start of a much larger project that I have now decided to do. "
timelapse  video  videos  japan  culture  inspiration  japanese 
june 2010 by earth2marsh
Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA
"the vast majority of both consumers and video professionals don't know: ALL modern video cameras and camcorders that shoot in h.264 or mpeg2, come with a license agreement that says that you can only use that camera to shoot video for "personal use and non-commercial" purposes (go on, read your manuals)."
art  codec  compression  analysis  copyright  culture  internet  law  patents  mpeg  h264 
may 2010 by earth2marsh
The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay Shirky
One of the best posts of 2010: "The answer he arrived at was that they hadn’t collapsed despite their cultural sophistication, they’d collapsed because of it. Subject to violent compression, Tainter’s story goes like this: a group of people, though a combination of social organization and environmental luck, finds itself with a surplus of resources. Managing this surplus makes society more complex—agriculture rewards mathematical skill, granaries require new forms of construction, and so on. Early on, the marginal value of this complexity is positive—each additional bit of complexity more than pays for itself in improved output—but over time, the law of diminishing returns reduces the marginal value, until it disappears completely. At this point, any additional complexity is pure cost."
economics  collapse  complexity  culture  journalism  future  innovation  media  video  tv  society  internet  strategy  businessmodel 
april 2010 by earth2marsh
FINALLY: The Difference between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained by a Venn Diagram
RT : Nerd defined (in a Venn diagram of course) )
culture  funny  geek  humor  nerd  venn  diagram  from twitter
march 2010 by earth2marsh
Make: Online : Why making matters
"AnnMarie Thomas gave a short talk at TED this year on Why Making Matters. She blogged the following, based on the speech she gave: I truly believe that the one of the best ways to have an impact on the world is to give as many kids and young adults as possible the tools they need to change the world. In a quest to do this, I've read a lot of biographies of engineers and inventors whom I respected and began to see an obvious trend. • Paul MacCready, one of my heroes, designer of human powered aircraft and champion for more sustainable modes of transformation, grew up building model airplanes on his family's ping pong table to the extent that at the age of 14 he set the world record for flight duration of an autogyro." … and much more
maker  makers  manifesto  quotes  kids  parenting  teaching  pedagogy  culture  learning 
march 2010 by earth2marsh
Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World
"This series of vignettes is based on a talk I gave on October 27, 2009, at UCLA, as part of the Mobile Media Lecture Series, organized by Casey Reas. It’s mostly about the current state of the digital world (as I see it), and some thoughts about what that world's future could be."
design  culture  learning  building  writing  presentation  philosophy  digital  world  society  inspiration 
november 2009 by earth2marsh
Post-Medium Publishing
"In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn't better content cost more?"
culture  technology  essay  paulgraham  content  business  marketing  media  publishing 
september 2009 by earth2marsh
Ton's Interdependent Thoughts: Screens — a very networked age
""Last month when I was at the annual Medinge summer meeting, I talked to Patrick Harris about technology use. He told me how his 17yr old daughter refers to the whole category of internet-enabled music, video, info or text devices we now use with just one word: "Screens." Somehow this remark has stuck with me. This is not just a teenagers indifferent throw away description of the different hight-tech devices we surround ourselves with. It's a succinct description of what these devices give us, a window on our information.""
via:preoccupations  culture  screens  interface  information  teens 
september 2009 by earth2marsh
YouTube - 16: Moments
"After hearing our show about moments of death, filmmaker Will Hoffman went out in search of moments of life. What follows is what he found."
radiolab  video  youtube  moment  moments  life  death  inspiration  art  culture 
september 2009 by earth2marsh
Symposium for the Future » It is easy to fall in love with technology… (by danah boyd)
"Technology does not determine practice. How people embrace technology has less to do with the technology itself than with the social setting in which they are embedded. Those who are immersed in a techno-savvy, technophilic community are far more likely to embrace technology than those whose social world is shaped by other patterns of consumption and communication. People’s practices are also shaped by those around them. There are cluster effects to socio-technical engagement. In other words, people do what their friends do." "Putting Facebook or MySpace into the classroom can create a severe cognitive collision as teens try to work out the shift in contexts. Most problematically, when teens are forced to navigate Friending in an educational setting, painful dramas occur because who you’re polite to in school may be very different than who you socialize with at home. Using technology that ruptures social norms in the classroom can be socially and educationally harmful."
danah_boyd  social  education  technology  culture 
august 2009 by earth2marsh
Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch - NYTimes.com
"Cutler and his colleagues also surveyed cooking patterns across several cultures and found that obesity rates are inversely correlated with the amount of time spent on food preparation. The more time a nation devotes to food preparation at home, the lower its rate of obesity. In fact, the amount of time spent cooking predicts obesity rates more reliably than female participation in the labor force or income. Other research supports the idea that cooking is a better predictor of a healthful diet than social class: a 1992 study in The Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that poor women who routinely cooked were more likely to eat a more healthful diet than well-to-do women who did not."
food  cooking  trends  television  michael_pollan  culture  article  history 
august 2009 by earth2marsh
l'homme presse est deja mort
quote  morocco  saying  culture  rush  hurried  hurry  slow 
july 2009 by earth2marsh
MST3K Rankings
"Genius, That’s what MST3K is, pure genius. Sure there will be some repeatition, but with over 600 jokes per eps you got to allow for overlapping and running gags. At its core, few shows are as sharp or as consistently funny as Mystery Science Theater 3000. I’ve recently been watching shows back to back, to compare and re-adjust grades accordingly. Everybody has a top 10, here’s my top… oh, 40, 60, 75? I’m not sure how far I’ll take this but away we go..."
mst3k  media  entertainment  culture  comedy  humor 
july 2009 by earth2marsh
The Technium: Chosen, Inevitable, and Contingent
So does any technology lurch forward on its own inertia as "a self-propelling, self-sustaining, ineluctable flow", in the words of technology critic Langdon Winner, or do we have clear free-will choice in the sequence of technological change, a stance that makes us (individually or corporately) responsible for each step?
future  philosophy  essay  technology  culture  Kevin_Kelly  evolution 
july 2009 by earth2marsh
Global Voices Online » Global Lullabies: The Arrorró Project
Lullaby collection from around the world
music  language  culture  lullaby  video 
june 2009 by earth2marsh
Ode Magazine - For Intelligent Optimists
i  inspiration  international  change  activism  culture  magazine  sustainability  LSI 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
Collection Of Atheist And Atheism Motivational Posters
motivational  atheist  demotivators  motivation  posters  gallery  humor  culture  images  philosophy  atheism  religion 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
Baby names suggest that cultural trends are abandoned more readily the quicker they catch on : Not Exactly Rocket Science
" female names were jettisoned from popular use more quickly than male ones, although the reasons behind this faster turnover are unclear […] To find out why, Berger and Le Mens gauged the reactions of 661 expecting parents to a list of 30 names. They found that the parents were less likely to give their children names that had seen the sharpest recent rises in popularity, regardless of how popular the names were overall. This was mostly because they viewed these names as short-lived fads; when the duo adjusted their results for this perception, a name's rise in popularity no longer affected its attractiveness . These results highlight the capricious nature of fame and popularity. Public concern that something's popularity is fleeting can make it seem less attractive, and ensure that its popularity actually is fleeting! It's a self-fulfilling effect - a meteoric rise to stardom can generate the very conditions that cause an equally swift downfall."
culture  names  naming  trends  baby 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
Rethinking the American Dream | vanityfair.com
"life in the United States offered personal liberties and opportunities to a degree unmatched by any other country in history" via:timoreilly on twitter
culture  economics  psychology  american_dream  essay  society  sustainability  history  consumer  america  dream  ideals  consumerism 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
texts from last night
Remember that text you shouldn't have sent last night? We do.
texting  humor  mobile  culture 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
Bueller? | MetaTalk
"the "Fight Club" theory, in which Ferris Bueller, the person, is just a figment of Cameron's imagination, like Tyler Durden, and Sloane is the girl Cameron secretly loves."
culture  movies  theory  fight_club  Ferris_Bueller  interpretation 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
"Where Tinkerers Take Control of Technology" By Mike Musgrove
At a recent HacDC get-together, Tim Collins displays his latest toy to a visitor. It's a microcontroller, a $6 mini-computer on a chip smaller than his thumb. 'This has more computing capacity than my first computer, which cost thousands of dollars,' he observes.
hacking  club  hacks  hack  dc  organizaiton  microcontroller  technology  culture  nonprofit 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
Chino Otsuka photographs, London - Art - Wallpaper.com - International Design Interiors Fashion Travel
"Preoccupied with her own history, Otsuka’s digitally manipulated photographs exemplify her understated artistry and elegantly articulated histrionics. Images of Otsuka as an adult are craftily combined with snaps of the artist as a child, pinched from the family photo album. The resultant composite snapshots are both glaringly literal and astoundingly subtle musings on the contemporary relevance of the self-portrait."
art  culture  recursion  history  photography  photoshop  inspiration  creative  portrait  via:jm 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
tweenbots | kacie kinzer
cardboard robots with missions that require random people to help them.
sociology  social  psychology  interactive  space  culture  art  robots  experiment  NYC  technology  human 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
In Middle Schools, Empathy Becomes a Weapon Against Bullying - NYTimes.com
"educators see the lessons as grooming children to be better citizens and leaders by making them think twice before engaging in the name-calling, gossip and other forms of social humiliation that usually go unpunished. “As a school, we’ve done a lot of work with human rights,” said Michael McDermott, the middle school principal. “But you can’t have kids saving Darfur and isolating a peer in the lunchroom. It all has to go together.”"
nytimes  education  behavior  ideas  framing  culture  values  identity  empathy 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
Edge: THE END OF UNIVERSAL RATIONALITY: A Talk with Yochai Benkler
"about human sharing, about the relationship between human interest and human morality and human society."
sustainability  innovation  culture  change  business  knowledge  networks  sharing 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
NOTCOT.ORG
an aesthetic sampler
design  trends  inspiration  art  advertising  creativity  ideas  culture 
march 2009 by earth2marsh
Mind Your Language
"The difficulty applies the other way round too. English-speakers are keen to say please politely in other languages, even if those languages do not express politeness by constantly saying please. So English tourists say ‘por favor’ to waiters and barmen in a way that sounds too insistent to a Spaniard. It is as if someone were to say: ‘A glass of wine, if you please, my good man.’ If you want the butter passed in Spanish, you say, ‘Pass the butter.’ To add por favor can smack of impatience."
language  manners  speaking  convention  culture 
march 2009 by earth2marsh
We Tell Stories
culture  collaboration  art  digital  storytelling  story  stories  fiction  penguin  books  mashup  writing 
march 2009 by earth2marsh
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem
clay_shirky  copyright  change  innovation  future  information  trends  article  history  media  culture  newspapers  drm  revolution 
march 2009 by earth2marsh
"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"
"we're forced to contend with a society in which things are being truly reconfigured. ... this creates all new questions about context & privacy, about our relationship to space & to the people around us. Specific genres of social media may come & go, but these underlying properties are here to stay. We won't turn the clock back on these. Social network sites may end up being a fad from the first decade of the 21st century, but new forms of technology will continue to leverage social network as we go forward. If we get away from thinking about the specific technologies & focus on the properties & dynamics, we can see how change is unfolding before our eyes. One of the key challenges is learning how to adapt to an environment in which these properties & dynamics play a key role. This is a systems problem. We are all implicated in it - as developers & policy makers, as parents & friends, as individuals & as citizens. Social media is here to stay. Now we just have to evolve with it."
danah_boyd  socialnetworking  socialmedia  trends  research  public  society  twitter  facebook  myspace  culture 
march 2009 by earth2marsh
PressThink: Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press
"In the age of mass media, the press was able to define the sphere of legitimate debate with relative ease because the people on the receiving end were atomized-- connected "up" to Big Media but not across to each other. And now that authority is eroding. I will try to explain why."
press  consensus  framing  audience  newspapers  media  internet  communication  news  analysis  journalism  bias  criticism  culture 
march 2009 by earth2marsh
…My heart’s in Accra » Rolcats and recursive humor
fantastic—the lolcats meme adapted to russian, and then got "translated" back into english again for double the laughs.
humor  memes  culture  lolcats  russian  cats 
february 2009 by earth2marsh
Photographic Dictionary
a visual dictionary
inspiration  art  culture  photography  dictionary  visualization 
february 2009 by earth2marsh
Why do people cook? | What's cooking? | The Economist
Interesting... Cooking as an evolutionary advantage: "Cooking alters food in three important ways. It breaks starch molecules into more digestible fragments. It “denatures” protein molecules, so that their amino-acid chains unfold and digestive enzymes can attack them more easily. And heat physically softens food. That makes it easier to digest, so even though the stuff is no more calorific, the body uses fewer calories dealing with it."
food  cooking  evolution  culture  via:gnat 
february 2009 by earth2marsh
Andrew Wyeth, Painter, Dies at 91 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
artist  obituary  painter  Andrew_Wyeth  maine  mainer  culture 
january 2009 by earth2marsh
Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools and Ideas
yep, all the back issues now online. awesome.
wholeearth  wholeearthcatalog  culture  environment  earth  catalog  magazine  archive  archives 
january 2009 by earth2marsh
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: A House United: How are Cultural and Political Preferences Related?
"Fox News wins the prize for the most politically divisive TV channel (70% of conservatives watch it daily and only 3% of liberals). Over 82% of conservatives say they never watch MTV. The only other station from our list that they watch less is Univision (84%). Who has a sense of humor? Not only do liberals give Comedy Central a big thumbs up (31% watch it daily, compared to 6% of all other respondents), you are more likely to find them watching comedies than moderates or conservatives. Out of 15 TV and film genres, "arts" emerged as the one with the highest positive correlation to liberal viewers and the highest negative correlation to conservative viewers. In other words, while 48% of liberals prefer arts programming, only 17% of conservatives do. At the other end of the scale, less than 5% of liberals say they do not like the genre at all, compared to almost 25% of conservatives.
media  consumption  henry_jenkins  politics  culture 
october 2008 by earth2marsh
The United States of Mind - WSJ.com
maps of personality traits in the USA
personality  map  neuroticism  extraversion  culture  psychology  sociology 
october 2008 by earth2marsh
How mobile is changing our society
As ordinary physical items enter the same network, it’s not going to be about virtual or physical activities anymore. Both will be different faces of the same coin. It’s not going to be about context or not. Context will be the primary component of everything. The primary device will no longer be a “mobile”, but more like something that interacts with the network in a highly contextual way. Ideas, people and physical objects will be part of the same network in a very literal sense
mobile  society  culture  trends  change  language  interaction  ubicomp 
october 2008 by earth2marsh
Lies We Tell Kids
Adults lie constantly to kids. I'm not saying we should stop, but I think we should at least examine which lies we tell and why.
Paul_Graham  lies  lying  essay  teaching  parenting  culture  psychology 
october 2008 by earth2marsh
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