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Howell Raines: Why don't honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?
A dollar short, a day late, disingenuous about his own newsroom's role in e.g. cheerleading for the invasion of Iraq...but nice to see anyway. Via Mia.
media  politics  psyop  interestingtimes  economics 
april 2010 by Urbanscale
dConstruct 2009: Elements of a Networked Urbanism
A heroic transcription of the talk I gave in Brighton last year. While revealing all my tics and weaknesses as a speaker, it's nonetheless not a bad effort.
urbanism  urbancomputing  urbanplanning  urbansystemsdesign  cities  infrastructure  transit  technology  economics  surveillance  publicspace  interactiondesign 
february 2010 by Urbanscale
marginwalker.org: Real value and the nature of work
By special request. This six-year-old post on my old community site - on how we choose to allocate our time and effort in the world, and what comes of that effort - remains frighteningly relevant.
work  personal  economics  psychology  community  marginwalker 
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Podcast | dConstruct 2009
Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.
augmented  architecture  API  cities  community  connoisseurship  crime  crowds  democracy  kultur  economics  futures  geography  identity  infovisualization  infrastructure  interface  location  maps  mobility  neighborhoods  networks  opensystems  publicspace  privacy  socialnetworking  swarm  transit  technosocial  ubicomp  urbancomputing  urbanism  wayfinding 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Demos: Reinventing the Firm
Via Migurski, this paper takes a fresh look at the assumptions and structures underlying the capitalist economy. Stoked.
economics  ecosystems  institutions 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
BBC News: Human cost of mineral mining in DR Congo
The implications of a globalized electronics industry. Via Nurri.
africa  congo  economics  humangeography  networks 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Far Eastern Economic Review: Will Japan Ever Grow Up?
Again via Gen. And again, this rings so, so true to me.
japan  kultur  economics  globalism  sigh 
july 2009 by Urbanscale
Lessig Blog: Et tu, KK? (aka, No, Kevin, this is not "socialism")
I'm sympathetic to some of the underlying logic here, but I find Lessig's insistence on defining state coercion as one of the core (indeed, definitive) attributes of "socialism" bizarre and tendentious. As I read it, what he's working toward - or more to the point, what *I'm* working toward - is neither socialism nor capitalism, precisely emergent and certainly not statist. This piece makes me sad.
economics  emergence  lessig  publics 
june 2009 by Urbanscale
One Click Orgs
"Legal structures and group decision-making made easy." (!)
law  economics  institutions 
june 2009 by Urbanscale
Smogr: Transportation Bandwidth
Randy does a great job here. I'd *love* to see this updated to reflect emergent modes...and vertical transport as well.
urbanism  transportation  publicspace  economics  time 
may 2008 by Urbanscale
Jan Chipchase: Shorter, Smoother, More Comfortable
Transactions in context, and the specter of cascading EPIC FAIL via preemptive purchase heuristics.
economics  networks  money  retail 
may 2008 by Urbanscale
The new urban penalty | Free exchange | Economist.com
Via blech. "America's farm and highway policies divert resources away from some of the most productive places in the country, at great taxpayer expense." AMEN to that.
economics  cities  urbanism 
april 2008 by Urbanscale
The Autumn of the Multitaskers
Late to the party here, but this substantiates my pushback against "continuous partial attention" ya-ya.
slow  sociology  attention  economics 
february 2008 by Urbanscale
NYT: New Subway Math May Bring Windfall of Spare Change to Transit System
What I call "the MetroCard float" is here acknowledged, even thought of as something to be exploited by MTA.
(nyc)  transit  economics  everyware2ndedition 
december 2007 by Urbanscale
NYT: The Cabby Takes Plastic, or at Least Is Supposed To
A vivid seam or faultline, and the infinite ingenuity people can devote to friction and resistance when informatic technology gets contested.
(nyc)  everyware  everyware2ndedition  ubicomp  economics  taxis  urbancomputing 
december 2007 by Urbanscale
NYT: Cellphone Straitjacket Is Inspiring a Rebellion
The NYT thinks it sees signs of a turn toward openness in the entrails. That may be significant in itself.
economics  ethics  infrastructure  mobile  opensystems  spectrum 
november 2007 by Urbanscale
Clusterfuck Nation: The Agenda Restated
Kunstler must've gotten up on the right side of the bed this morning. This here is him at or pretty close to his best.
kultur  economics  peakoil  adaptivereuse  lostage  futures  urbanplanning  lifeduringwartime 
february 2007 by Urbanscale
Schelling point
The perils of reading without handy Web access: I made a note to myself to look this up when I read Howard's "Smart Mobs" almost five years ago. Just got to it today. : . O
urbanism  economics  sociology  game 
january 2007 by Urbanscale
List of works by Donald Shoup
With a background in economics, engineering, and planning, Donald Shoup...has extensively studied the issue of parking as a key link between transportation and land use, with important consequences for cities, the economy, and the environment
urbanplanning  economics  traffic  parking  cars 
january 2007 by Urbanscale
Review of Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat
LOL! Tom "The Mustache and the Olive Tree" Friedman finally gets his due. Starts right in and does not let up. Oh, also: "our language really matters, and metaphors need to be chosen carefully."
globalism  offshoring  yes  economics 
april 2006 by Urbanscale
Morgan Stanley: The party's over
"The real test was always the exit strategy."
economics 
march 2005 by Urbanscale
TecEco
Carbon sequestration in cement
ecology  economics  materials  engineering 
march 2005 by Urbanscale
Jim Kunstler on "The Long Emergency"
After peak oil, and other charmingly converging clusterfucks of the 21st century
ecology  economics  personal 
march 2005 by Urbanscale
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler
Cheery, uncomfortable despite the disclaimers about "not being racist," but not too far from accurate in some ways
china  economics  futures 
december 2004 by Urbanscale

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