shannon on social gaming...

a good round-up of where we're at and the pros of using pragmatic means to mine the [newly] metadata rich world.

write up from the information design conf at end of march... wayfinding in London.

a review of the main points ....

for all good reasons and most importantly because they work closely with their audience already and have great feedback loops. the apple example is more interesting... but they have super strong brand and service support.

it doesn't surprise me that people have these views that Brenda uncovers. there's a knee jerk reaction to kids and screen based media = negative that cuts to the heart of our relationship with technology.

interesting use for clustering i.e. categorising news in a loose CV way

fascinating account of the business concepts that drove the war and their assumptions that almost lost it. it'd make a good critique of US capitalism generally