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Crossroads - Pop Culture in the Age of Obama - Series - NYTimes.com
"Maybe we can once and for all stop defaulting to easy categorical boundaries between high and low, and discriminate instead between the well made and the shoddy. "
obama  nytimes  culture 
august 2009 by nijst
Dear Dustin Curtis | Dustin Curtis
But doing the design isn’t the hard part, and I think that’s what a lot of outsiders don’t really get, probably because many of them actually do belong to small, just-get-it-done organizations. But those of us who work in enterprise-level situations realize the momentum even a simple redesign must overcome, and not many, I’ll bet, are jumping on this same bandwagon. They know what it’s like.
design  americanairlines  interactiondesign  webdesign  blog  business  culture  inspiration  usability  innovation  work  redesign  essay  ux  ui  airlines  american  corporate  process  taste  enterprise  aa  customer  american-airlines  aa.com  bloom 
june 2009 by nijst
BLDGBLOG: How the Other Half Writes: In Defense of Twitter
"Those other people – those everyday people who weren't supposed to have thoughts, who aren't known for reading David Foster Wallace or Dostoevsky or James Joyce, those overlooked people from whom we buy groceries, who fix our cars, clean our houses, and vote differently than we do – weren't supposed to become writers. "
twitter  journalism  writing  culture 
april 2009 by nijst
Scene stealer: The aXXo files - Features, Films - The Independent
This aXXo may be anonymous, but he (or she, or they) is a global brand. His most popular uploads are downloaded illegally by up to a million internet users per week. His files regularly make up more than one-third of all the films trafficked on BitTorrent.
bittorrent  culture  internet  axxo  copyright  torrent  torrents  mpaa  filesharing  piracy 
february 2009 by nijst
Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook
"A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head."
blog  business  culture  fun  geek  funny  geeks  Humor  humour  life  personal  productivity  programming  relationships  society  web 
november 2007 by nijst
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