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Governments failing to avert catastrophic climate change, IEA warns | Environment | The Guardian
On current form, she warns, the world is on track for warming of 6C by the end of the century – a level that would create catastrophe, wiping out agriculture in many areas and rendering swathes of the globe uninhabitable, as well as raising sea levels and causing mass migration, according to scientists.
environment  climatechange  article  news 
5 weeks ago by roel
Garr Reynolds / Why Design Matters
article  design 
august 2010 by roel
Lee Byron » Else » Stream Graph Paper
In February 2008, the New York Times published an unusual chart of box office revenues for 7500 movies over 21 years. The chart was based on a similar visualization, developed by the first author, that displayed trends in music listening. This paper describes the design decisions and algorithms behind these graphics, and discusses the reaction on the Web. We suggest that this type of complex layered graph is effective for displaying large data sets to a mass audience. We provide a mathematical analysis of how this layered graph relates to traditional stacked graphs and to techniques such as ThemeRiver, showing how each method is optimizing a different “energy function”. Finally, we discuss techniques for coloring and ordering the layers of such graphs. Throughout the paper, we emphasize the interplay between considerations of aesthetics and legibility.
design  visualization  infographics  article  theory 
march 2010 by roel
Signs: The most useful thing you pay no attention to. - By Julia Turner - Slate Magazine
Signage—the kind we see on city streets, in airports, on highways, in hospital corridors—is the most useful thing we pay no attention to. When it works well, it tells us where we are (as when an Interstate marker assures us we're on the right highway) and it helps us to get where we want to go (as when an airport banner directs us to our gate). When it fails, we miss trains, we're late to appointments, we spend hours pacing the indistinguishable floors of underground parking garages, muttering to ourselves in mounting frustration and fury. And in some cases, especially where automobiles are involved, the consequences of bad signage can be fatal.
traffic  sign  design  urban  article  slate 
march 2010 by roel
What Can't Digital Do for Me?
photography  article  digital  from instapaper
february 2010 by roel
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine
You might think that after a solid decade of search-market dominance, Google could relax. After all, it holds a commanding 65 percent market share and is still the only company whose name is synonymous with the verb search. But just as Google isn’t ready to rest on its laurels, its competitors aren’t ready to concede defeat. For years, the Silicon Valley monolith has used its mysterious, seemingly omniscient algorithm to, as its mission statement puts it, “organize the world’s information.”
article  google  search  wired 
february 2010 by roel
FT.com / Comment / Opinion - What Copenhagen can learn from the Montreal protocol
What international agreement produced 10 times the climate benefits of Kyoto and could produce several times more greenhouse gas reductions than any post-2012 climate agreement? The answer: the Montreal protocol, which Kofi Annan described as “perhaps the most successful international agreement to date”. Because a new climate agreement is unlikely to emerge in Copenhagen in December, it is time to look for possible interim alternative ideas in the Montreal protocol, which supporters call the best kept secret in the war against climate change.
climate  climatechange  international  treaty  financialtimes  article  opinion  world  co2  carbondioxide  environment  globalwarming  klimaat  klimaatverandering  broeikasgassen  kyotoprotocol 
december 2009 by roel
The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas - Magazine - NYTimes.com
Once again, The Times Magazine looks back on the past year from our favored perch: ideas. Like a magpie building its nest, we have hunted eclectically, though not without discrimination, for noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity, which, when collected and woven together, form a sort of cognitive shelter, in which the curious mind can incubate, hatch and feather. Unlike birds, we can also alphabetize. And so we hereby present, from A to Z, the most clever, important, silly and just plain weird innovations we carried back from all corners of the thinking world. To offer a nonalphabetical option for navigating the entries, this year we have attached tags to each item indicating subject matter. We hope you enjoy.
nytimes  article  design  inspiration  culture  art  science  ideas  news  creativity  innovation  technology  trends  interesting  2009  magazine  bestof 
december 2009 by roel
An Easy Way to Increase Creativity: Scientific American
Creativity is commonly thought of as a personality trait that resides within the individual. We count on creative people to produce the songs, movies, and books we love; to invent the new gadgets that can change our lives; and to discover the new scientific theories and philosophies that can change the way we view the world. Over the past several years, however, social psychologists have discovered that creativity is not only a characteristic of the individual, but may also change depending on the situation and context. The question, of course, is what those situations are: what makes us more creative at times and less creative at others? One answer is psychological distance.
article  research  science  psychology  behavior  creativity  brain  cognition  mind  behaviour  interesting 
december 2009 by roel
Saving Bees: What We Know Now - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
The first alarms about the sudden widespread disappearance of honeybees came in late 2006, and the phenomenon soon had a name: colony collapse disorder. In the two years that followed, about one-third of bee colonies vanished, while researchers toiled to figure out what was causing the collapse. A study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences surmises that there may not be a single pathogen involved but a collection of culprits. What have entomologists and beekeepers learned in the last few years of dealing with the crisis? We asked May R. Berenbaum, an author of the study, and other experts for an update.
article  research  science  debate  bees  nytimes  environment  biology  nature 
september 2009 by roel
Ending the War on Sharing
article  music  internet  social  business  politics  copyright  sharing  law  filesharing  copyleft  digitalrightsmanagement 
august 2009 by roel
You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again | Epicenter | Wired.com
More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plugin to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers reported Monday. Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser. That means even if a user thinks they have cleared their computer of tracking objects, they most likely have not. What’s even sneakier? Several services even use the surreptitious data storage to reinstate traditional cookies that a user deleted, which is called ‘re-spawning’ in homage to video games where zombies come back to life even after being “killed,”
privacy  internet  security  browser  flash  tracking  cookies  article  wired 
august 2009 by roel
Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale - Anil Dash
apple  transparency  branding  technology  article  marketing 
august 2009 by roel
The hidden economy - The Boston Globe
Embedded in everything from cellphone bills to car-rental contracts, ''hidden fees" are hiding in plain sight. Two economists explain why they're likely to stay that way.
article  economy  ideas  science  news 
july 2009 by roel
McKinsey: What Matters: Why Kyoto won’t work
Global warming requires a long-term, comprehensive solution—not a drastic quick fix that won’t meet the real challenges. Solving this problem will take the better part of a century, and it will need a political will spanning parties, continents, and generations. If we adopt a rational, scientific approach and invest in research and development, we’ll be doing some real good for the long run rather than just making ourselves feel good today.
article  2009  climatechange  lomborg 
july 2009 by roel
McKinsey: What Matters: Calling for a green stimulus plan
What exactly should we do? We should start with the kinds of solutions that can be achieved quickly and are labor intensive. Much of the energy-efficiency work—for example, insulating buildings—very clearly falls under that category. We should be getting idle construction workers around the world working on those kinds of projects. We can bring forward infrastructure investment, particularly electricity and transport infrastructure. We can promote prototypes. Now is the time to get our resources behind prototypes for carbon capture and storage. We delayed much too long in Europe on that. We should be helping the car industry to retool and to produce more efficient, greener cars. It’s time to collect our resources and move strongly.
article  climatechange  via:meryn 
july 2009 by roel
Iraq Suffers as the Euphrates River Dwindles - NYTimes.com
The Euphrates is drying up. Strangled by the water policies of Iraq’s neighbors, Turkey and Syria; a two-year drought; and years of misuse by Iraq and its farmers, the river is significantly smaller than it was just a few years ago. Some officials worry that it could soon be half of what it is now. The shrinking of the Euphrates, a river so crucial to the birth of civilization that the Book of Revelation prophesied its drying up as a sign of the end times, has decimated farms along its banks, has left fishermen impoverished and has depleted riverside towns as farmers flee to the cities looking for work.
sustainability  water  globalwarming  climatechange  iraq  nytimes  watermanagement  article 
july 2009 by roel
DECONSTRUCTING THE VANILLA MILKSHAKE: THE DOMINANT EFFECT OF SUCROSE ON SELF-ADMINISTRATION OF NUTRIENT-FLAVOR MIXTURES
Rats and humans avidly consume flavored foods that contain sucrose and fat, presumably due to their rewarding qualities. In this study, we hypothesized that the complex mixture of corn oil, sucrose, and flavor is more reinforcing than any of these components alone. We observed a concentration-dependent increase in reinforcers received of sucrose solutions (0, 3, 6.25, and 12.5%) in both fixed ratio and progressive ratio procedures, but with equicaloric corn oil solutions (0, 1.4, 2.8, and 5.6%) this finding was replicated only in the fixed ratio procedure. Likewise, addition of 1.4% oil to 3% or 12.5% sucrose increased fixed ratio, but not progressive ratio, reinforcers received relative to those of sucrose alone. [...] These data suggest that, calorie-for-calorie, sucrose is the dominant reinforcing component of novel foods that contain a mixture of fat, sucrose, and flavor.
science  article  brain  food  nutrition 
july 2009 by roel
Why we can't eat just one | Salon
In his new best-selling book, "The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite," Kessler, a San Francisco Bay Area pediatrician, explains why certain foods loaded with fat, sugar and salt exert such a pull, despite our best intentions to avoid them. As he discusses the biology that leads to scarfing down a plate of fries, he delves into such puzzles as why the French fry binger is more likely to remember the pleasant stimulation of the fries' salt, fat, texture and flavor than the stomachache and self-recrimination that follow it.
food  health  psychology  brain  article  eating  diet  via:meryn 
july 2009 by roel
McKinsey: What Matters: Building a postcarbon economy
The world faces two urgent demands. First, the global economy is in crisis and needs to be turned around. Second, scientists tell us that time is running out on tackling climate change and we are putting our planet at risk. The conventional wisdom is that those two demands are competing. The conventional wisdom is wrong. The pivotal factor will be achieving a dramatic increase in society’s “carbon productivity”—the amount of economic output created per ton of greenhouse gas emissions sent into the atmosphere. The concept of carbon productivity follows a familiar logic: just as the productivity of labor and capital can be measured—by weighing the amount of output created per hour worked or dollar invested—the productivity of carbon use can be readily measured as well.
article  environment  economy  economics  green  climatechange  carbon  mckinsey  2009  policy 
july 2009 by roel
Economic opportunities in a low-carbon world
Policymakers often feel trapped between conflicting goals when addressing climate change. On the one hand they see the need for urgent action, but on the other they fear higher costs, slower economic growth, and a reduced standard of living for the citizens they serve. The media often reinforces these concerns with messages that tackling climate change is all about higher prices, economic sacrifice and reduced consumer lifestyles. But taking strong steps to restrain climate change need not invite economic gloom. Our research shows that by adopting the right mix of policies, incentives and new technologies, policymakers in the world’s wealthier, developed nations would dramatically restrain the quantity of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, even as they promote job growth and wealth creation.
article  mckinsey  carbon  carbondioxide  climatechange  energy  economy 
july 2009 by roel
How IT can cut carbon emissions | Innovation Society
Information and communications technologies will become a major source of greenhouse gas emissions but can abate far more of them.
article  energy  carbon  carbondioxide  energy-efficiency  sustainability 
july 2009 by roel
A Simple Plan to Cut Carbon Emissions
Research by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) and McKinsey's global energy and materials practice finds that a concerted global effort to boost energy productivity—the output we achieve from the energy we consume—would have spectacular results. Using existing technologies, we could cut global energy-demand growth by more than half over the next 15 years.
article  sustainability  energy  energy-efficiency  carbondioxide  carbon  green 
july 2009 by roel
Technology Review: The Human Genome: Yours for $48,000
A new sequencing service aims to take whole-genome sequencing mainstream.
dna  genes  science  trends  research  future  news  article 
june 2009 by roel
Cory Doctorow: Search is too important to leave to one company – even Google | Technology | guardian.co.uk
It may seem as unlikely as a publicly edited encyclopedia, but the internet needs publicly controlled search
article  internet  culture  google  web  column  searchengines  zoekmachine 
june 2009 by roel
The Economics of Happiness, Part 1: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Easterlin offered an appealing resolution to his paradox, arguing that only relative income matters to happiness. Other explanations suggest a “hedonic treadmill,” in which we must keep consuming more just to stay at the same level of happiness. Either way, the policy implications of the Paradox are huge, as they suggest that economic growth may not raise well-being by much. Given the stakes in this debate, Betsey Stevenson and I thought it worth reassessing the evidence. We have re-analyzed all of the relevant post-war data, and also analyzed the particularly interesting new data from the Gallup World Poll. Last Thursday we presented our research at the latest Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, and we have arrived at a rather surprising conclusion: There is no Easterlin Paradox.
research  psychology  economy  money  sociology  freakonomics  happiness  article  study  mind 
june 2009 by roel
Perfectly Happy - The Boston Globe
In recent years, cognitive scientists have turned in increasing numbers to the study of human happiness, and one of their central findings is that we are not very good at predicting how happy or unhappy something will make us. Given time, survivors of tragedies and traumas report themselves nearly as happy as they were before, and people who win the lottery or achieve lifelong dreams don't see any long-term increase in happiness.
article  research  psychology  happiness  economics  science  sociology  society 
june 2009 by roel
What happens if one country decides to start geoengineering on its own? - By Eli Kintisch - Slate Magazine
Add this to your list of climate nightmare scenarios: In 2040, facing rising seas, the Qatari government starts polluting the stratosphere in order to cool the planet, precipitating an international crisis and possibly upsetting monsoon patterns.
geoengineering  article  slate  technology  climate  climatechange 
may 2009 by roel
The fundamental problem of ‘owning’ user data « Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior
What is more important, the rights of the mass, or the rights of the individual. In the western world we tend to assume an inverse relationship between individual rights and social control. More social control leads to less individual rights and vice versa. Marshall suggests that individual rights may be less important than the ‘greater cause’ of being able to provide more value to users if data is freely accessible.
privacy  socialnetworking  personal_data  personal  data  datamining  opinion  article  blog 
april 2009 by roel
The Management Myth - The Atlantic (June 2006)
Most of management theory is inane, writes our correspondent, the founder of a consulting firm. If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead
article  business  culture  advice  management  essay  philosophy  articles 
april 2009 by roel
An Unschooling Manifesto | How to Save the World
The world of the classroom is so unlike anything the real world has to offer – with the exception of other classrooms – that kids can excel at school only to find themselves utterly lost in the real world. Some people think this is the result of failed schooling, but a few of us suspect otherwise. We suspect that this sense of displacement and confusion is actually the result of schooling that succeeds in its most basic unwritten objective: to keep you dependent, timid, worried, nervous, compliant, and afraid of the World. To keep you waiting. To keep you manageable. To keep you helpless. To keep you small. Educated, confident, creative people are dangerous to the status quo, dangerous to a centralized economy, dangerous to a centralized system of command and control. Those in power don’t want you educated. They want you schooled.
unschooling  opinion  analysis  blog  article 
april 2009 by roel
Helpful distortion at NYC & London subway maps - (37signals)
london  tube  infodesign  underground  article  blog  design  visualization  usability  information  accessibility 
april 2009 by roel
Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things
In the late 1800s, the Brooklyn Bridge was built with no power tools, no heavy machinery, and only a basic, evolving understanding of how to make steel. It’s not these facts, but the stories surrounding the facts that inspire me when I take a good, long stare at a suspension bridge. But first…
article  design  inspiration  ideas  writing  innovation  history  economy  management  america  nyc  bridge 
march 2009 by roel
Data Visualization Is Reinventing Online Storytelling - Advertising Age - DigitalNext
Today's consumer seems to have an insatiable appetite for information, but until recently making sense of all of that raw data was too daunting for most. Enter the new "visual scientists" who are turning bits and bytes of data -- once purely the domain of mathematicians and coders -- into stories for our digital age.
storytelling  socialmedia  article  data  visualization  information  infographics 
march 2009 by roel
The SSD Project | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project
Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) exists to answer two main questions: What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself against such spying?
rights  civilrights  burgerrechten  privacy  internet  software  howto  article  web  tutorial  security  technology  computer  hacks  government  eff  hacking  law  guide  usa  activism 
march 2009 by roel
Mind Hacks: Brain implants and cognitive side-effect trading
This week's Nature has an interesting article on the ethics of electronic brain enhancements. It does something quite unusual for an article on technological brain enhancements - it talks about the side effects.
article  science  brain  mind  hacks 
february 2009 by roel
Worldchanging: Bright Green: Sonoma Mountain Village: Is Green Suburbia Possible?
Forty miles north of San Francisco, on the site of a former industrial park, work is underway on the ambitious new Sonoma Mountain Village, a 200-acre development that aims to be truly sustainable. The development is America’s first to be certified as a “One Planet Community,” part of an effort to build healthy and sustainable neighborhoods in the UK, US and Canada.
article  sustainability  green  energy  development  community  urban  worldchanging  solar  sustainable  waste  afval 
february 2009 by roel
TED’s Greatest Hits - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com
Kamal Meattle reported the results of his efforts to fill an office building with plants, in an effort to reduce headache, asthma, and other productivity-sapping aliments in thickly polluted India. After researching NASA documents, he concluded that a set of three particular common, waist-high houseplants—areca palm, Mother-in-Law’s Tongue, and Money Plant—could be combined to scrub the air of carbon dioxide, formaldehyde and other pollutants. At about four plants per occupant (1200 plants in all), the building’s air freshened considerably, and the health and productivity results were staggering. Eye irritation dropped by 52 percent, lower respiratory symptoms by 34 percent, headaches by 24 percent and asthma by 9 percent. There were fewer sick days, employee productivity increased, and energy costs dropped by 15 percent.
tips  nytimes  article  videos  ted  presentations  health 
february 2009 by roel
Miller-McCune | Article | Deep Throat Meets Data Mining
The digital revolution that has been undermining in-depth reportage may be ready to give something back, through a new academic and professional discipline known in some quarters as "computational journalism." James Hamilton is director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University and one of the leaders in the emergent field; just now, he's in the process of filling an endowed chair with a professor who will develop sophisticated computing tools that enhance the capabilities — and, perhaps more important in this economic climate, the efficiency — of journalists and other citizens who are trying to hold public officials and institutions accountable.
article  research  journalism  digital  datamining  semanticweb  newspapers  media  web2.0  computationaljournalism 
january 2009 by roel
You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? - NYTimes.com
Collective intelligence could make it possible for insurance companies, for example, to use behavioral data to covertly identify people suffering from a particular disease and deny them insurance coverage. Similarly, the government or law enforcement agencies could identify members of a protest group by tracking social networks revealed by the new technology. “There are so many uses for this technology — from marketing to war fighting — that I can’t imagine it not pervading our lives in just the next few years,” says Steve Steinberg, a computer scientist who works for an investment firm in New York.
privacy  nytimes  article  trend  future  civilrights  security 
december 2008 by roel
Michael Tsai - Blog - Dropbox
Dropbox is certainly a promising technology—in many ways, what iDisk should have been—but it currently has some serious problems. It does not support Mac resource forks, extended attributes, or packages. Worse, it does not tell you that it doesn’t support these features. It just silently throws away those parts of your files. Until this is fixed, it should only be used by technical users who are sure that these limitations will not cause problems for them.
dropbox  macosx  opinion  blog  article 
november 2008 by roel
Malcolm Gladwell, "Outliers" | Salon Books
Buoyed by two runaway bestsellers, "Blink" and "The Tipping Point," Gladwell has positioned himself as a roving ambassador between cultural and corporate America, penetrating boardrooms and living rooms, providing bullet points for cocktail parties and management seminars, and changing not just the things we talk about but the way we talk about them. But in this new era of belt-tightening, everyone must expect some cost-benefit analysis, and so, in our best consultant-speak, we ask: How much value does Malcolm Gladwell really add?
society  psychology  books  article 
november 2008 by roel
5 dangers of social media « Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior
Let me provide you five dangers that arise due to our changed online behavior. These dangers should make us realize that when (not if) we move into an era where data becomes currency, we will need to develop better privacy and security measures to go along with that.
socialnetworking  socialsoftware  social  web  online  networks  article  blog 
november 2008 by roel
Do five simple things a day to stay sane, say scientists - Times Online
science  psychology  news  research  newspaper  article 
november 2008 by roel
But if they steal it - how can I make money? | New Music Strategies
I wrote a post back in April called ‘Should I Be Worried About Piracy?‘, to which my answer was, in a nutshell, “no”. This was meant to be a bit of a controversial post, though at the time I didn’t get much of the flak that I was bracing myself for. So I figured that most people saw the sense of it. I even had some good feedback about it elsewhere. But today, I received a passionate and very angry comment on that post - and it highlights some important issues and it raises some things that are both emotionally charged and based in the world of real, day-to-day economics.
music  piracy  opinion  article  blog  industry  internet  digital 
october 2008 by roel
Fotografie blogkermis: Workflow (Photofacts)
Meerdere weblogs hebben vandaag een stukje geschreven over workflow en geplaatst op hun eigen site. Anderhalve week geleden heb ik deze eerste blogkermis aangekondigd op Photofacts en gelukkig hebben er een zevental bloggers meegedaan! Een mooi resultaat voor deze eerste blogkermis. Workflow is het proces dat je doorloopt om iets voor elkaar te krijgen. Bij fotografie gaat het dus om het proces vanaf het maken van de foto (of wellicht zelfs wat hiervoor) tot het opleveren / afhebben van het eindresultaat (bijvoorbeeld een fotoalbum).
workflow  photography  article  blog 
october 2008 by roel
Wat is Open Overheid? | Ambtenaar 2.0
Door de blogs op www.ambtenaar20.nl, de discussies die daaruit volgden en de vele ontmoetingen die ik daarna heb gehad, ben ik er bewust van geworden dat rondom Open Overheid er flink wat initiatieven zijn. Ook blijkt dat het onderwerp soms verwarring oproept. Want wat is de relatie met begrippen als open source of open standaarden? En gaat het niet gewoon om openbaarheid? En waarom gaat het alleen over de overheid? Tijd voor een toelichting op het begrip Open Overheid.
government  article  overheid  open  data  initiatief  ontwikkeling 
september 2008 by roel
A Web OS? Are You Dense? - Ted Dziuba
People are calling Google Chrome a "Web Operating System" and a "Cloud Operating System". Some are even calling it a Windows killer. I think it's time to nip this horseshit in the bud, before it gets out of hand.
web2.0  analysis  blog  article  webservices  browser  google  opinion 
september 2008 by roel
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense: Scientific American
article  science  education  biology  evolution  philosophy  logic  arguments 
september 2008 by roel
6 Questions to Ask Yourself to Get the Most Out of Life | Zen Habits
article  productivity  inspiration  advice  life  motivation  happiness  future 
september 2008 by roel
Analog Meets Its Match in Red Digital Cinema's Ultrahigh-Res Camera
It's more than that: His team of engineers and scientists have created the first digital movie camera that matches the detail and richness of analog film. The Red One records motion in a whopping 4,096 lines of horizontal resolution—"4K" in filmmaker lingo—and 2,304 of vertical. For comparison, hi-def digital movies like Sin City and the Star Wars prequels top out at 1,920 by 1,080, just like your HDTV.
wired  video  technology  movies  hdtv  film  development  digital  article 
august 2008 by roel
The Simple Economics of Open Source — HBS Working Knowledge
Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning "open source" move
opensource  economics  open  knowledge  harvard  collaboration  article  science  analysis 
august 2008 by roel
Why I'm late to embrace Shiny Things | Global Neighbourhoods
Thomas reminded me of why I sometimes think I am Silicon Valley's latest early adopter. Most people I know around here seem greatly enamored with each and every "shiny new object."
gadgets  friends  network  article  blog  social  socialnetworking 
august 2008 by roel
jldugger: Introducing Money Into Open Source
What follows below is the kind of research Jeff Atwood should have done in preparation of giving that money. What I think would have been most useful to Jeff is researching what has already been done, though I suppose he's not got time for such trivial th
opensource  motivation  analysis  article  ubuntu  debian  open 
august 2008 by roel
Incremental leading : Journal : Mark Boulton
Article about incremental leading, a typography thing.
typography  css  webdesign  layout  web  tutorial  article 
july 2008 by roel
the Idea Shower » » Read it Later - Firefox Extension BETA
This Firefox extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. A commenter below (Chris) summed it up very well: “It’s a ’staging area’ for bookma
firefox  extension  productivity  reading  tools  article  addon  browser  gtd 
july 2008 by roel
Meet the economists who know why we buy what we buy | Money | The Guardian
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his book, Predictably Irrational, clearly sets out the behaviouralists' argument that average people are all far more irrational and more human than economists allow.
economics  marketing  psychology  behaviour  choice  consumption  consumer  complexity  article 
july 2008 by roel
Anil Dash: The Windows Apps You Never Need To Install
It makes sense to point out some mistakes that I still see even savvy Windows users make, and perhaps convince you to break the habit. Here, then, are Windows applicaitons you should never need to install on your system.
windows  software  tips  advice  applications  article  blog 
july 2008 by roel
What George Carlin Taught Innovators—The Virtues of Vuja De
We all know déjà vu—looking at an unfamiliar situation and feeling like you’ve been there before. But what’s valuable to innovation is vuja dé—looking at a familiar situation with fresh eyes, as if you’ve never seen it before, and with those
article  business  innovation  creative  fresh  original  creativity 
july 2008 by roel
No Babies? - Declining Population in Europe - NYTimes.com
Europe's demographic developments will strongly influence the future of the continent.
future  demographics  science  nytimes  population  growth  economy  society  europe  welfare  analysis  article 
july 2008 by roel
Ode Magazine : In praise of unreasonable people
bookreview  entrepreneurship  quotes  social  books  article  magazine 
june 2008 by roel
Google Code Blog: Google Visualization API Expanding Beyond Google Spreadsheets
We are excited to announce that we are opening up the Google Visualization API beyond Google Spreadsheets and adding more capabilities for developers. Earlier at the Google I/O developer conference, we launched several new features of the Google Visualiza
google  api  visualization  googledocs  development  blog  article 
may 2008 by roel
Musing about Flickr and YouTube and mobile phone cameras in the enterprise
Recently I spent some time considering the differences between traditional office e-mail and facebook e-mail: the lack of bc, cc and forward buttons, the way links and videos and sound files are attached, the absence of spreadsheet and document and presen
blog  article  culture  society  observation 
may 2008 by roel
Six Annoyances in Hardy Heron Ubuntu
I’m a huge fan of Ubuntu Linux. I’ve used many flavors of Linux over the years, and Ubuntu is my favorite by far. So it pains me to write this. For my needs, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is worse than 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). I cannot recommend Hardy Heron a
ubuntu  linux  review  hardyheron  software  usability  article 
may 2008 by roel
Ontkenning klimaatverandering minder lucratief - Sargasso
Vandaag werd bekend dat oliegigant Exxon stopt met het financieren van organisaties die tot doel hebben de klimaatverandering te ontkennen. Na de afgelopen tien jaar 23 miljoen dollar te hebben gepompt in clubs die Greenpeace “the engine room of the cli
klimaat  klimaatverandering  article  lobby  wetenschap  pseudo 
may 2008 by roel
Organic milk production leaves big footprint
The USDA has made it clear that organic milk is neither safer nor healthier than conventional milk. And real world agriculture practices make it absolutely clear that organic agriculture is a burden on the environment and far worse than conventional agric
milk  organic  footprint  article  marketing 
may 2008 by roel
A List Apart: Articles: Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow
George explains how the Flickr community started, and how the users shaped the Flickr web platform in more ways than the site itself shaped the user interaction.
flickr  social  article  community  web2.0  webdesign  socialsoftware  tips  usability  users  web  design  identity 
may 2008 by roel
Lured Toward the Right Choice - TIME
If you want people to use less energy, you could make it very expensive--or you could just let them know how much they use in comparison with their neighbors. When that bit of information was added to electric bills in San Marcos, Calif., heavy users quic
2008  article  influence  psychology 
may 2008 by roel
The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment « Content Consumer
With the latest release of Ubuntu, I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of being used easily by the mainstream. So, I tricked my grudging girlfriend Erin into sitting down at a brand new Ubuntu 8.04 installation and performin
linux  ubuntu  usability  design  experiment  article  blog  consumer  computer  desktop  gui  research 
may 2008 by roel
ongoing · Video Pain
Trouble with video on the Mac. And thought Mac OS was currently the best operating system for video editing...?
apple  video  editing  blog  article  mac 
may 2008 by roel
On Managing A Community | chrisbrogan.com
I wonder how most organizations are handling the role of community manager. I’m curious where a community manager reports. Marketing? HR? Customer service? I wonder how organizations are justifying the cost, and what they believe the role entails for le
community  socialmedia  management  socialnetworking  web2.0  article  blog  communication  web  socialnetworks  online  moderation  media 
april 2008 by roel
Solar Power From Africa: The Best Investment the EU Can Make | SolveClimate.com
"Big Solar" may take on a whole new meaning if Desertec, the most ambitious solar thermal plan ever conceived, gets funded. Its architects claim they can build a supergrid of concentrating solar thermal plants (CSP) that can meet most of Europe's current
solar  energy  africa  green  sustainability  europe  blog  article 
april 2008 by roel
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. Starting with the Second World War a whole series of things happened--ri
culture  internet  media  collaboration  technology  history  community  analysis  article  2008  communication  consumption  crowdsourcing  essay  future  innovation  ideas  inspiration  sharing  social  society  trend  wikipedia  psychology  opinion 
april 2008 by roel
A new reason to block ads - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
After years of refusing to install extensions in my browsers or proxies on my machine, I have, for the past few months, started to work seriously on blocking connections to ad servers. The reason? The increasing number of security issues linked to these a
Security  advertising  browser  online  tips  article 
april 2008 by roel
A Brief Message: No Resistance Is Futile
Six(1) words(2) can(3) tell(4) a(5) story(6) (while five is too small).
writing  design  text  simplicity  article 
march 2008 by roel
The Death of High Fidelity : Rolling Stone
Over the past decade and a half, a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed and mastered — almost always for the worse. "They make it loud to get [listeners'] attention," Bendeth says. Engineers do that by applyi
music  audio  mp3  production  sound  mastering  opinion  recording  quality  interesting  muziek  article  compression 
march 2008 by roel
Neatorama » Blog Archive » The Wonderful World of Early Photography.
Photography was probably an inevitable invention - the surprise was that it took so long for it to develop, especially given that the scientific principles that are responsible for it - physical principles such as our understanding of lens and optics and
photography  history  photos  art  technology  article  blog 
march 2008 by roel
Free is not a Constant State - James Duncan Davidson
Chris Anderson’s FREE! essay in Wired is certainly a good think and is the culmination of a lot of thinking around what digital technologies mean for the economy. As a photographer, I immediately think about what Chris is saying in terms of photography.
photography  free  discussion  vision  future  ideas  blog  article 
march 2008 by roel
Volksopstand tegen de privacyschendingen - Sargasso
Vandaar dat ik een poging doe de meest relevante zaken over de steeds verder gaande aantasting van de privacy door de overheid op een rijtje te zetten.
privacy  politiek  nederland  overheid  article  blog  burgerrechten 
february 2008 by roel
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
The Bottom is Not Enough
collaboration  wikipedia  complexity  social  wiki  editors  article  blog  interesting 
february 2008 by roel
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