February 2012
9 posts
“3D printers, laser cutters, online distribution, supply chain services and even...”
– The Internet, innovation and learning - Joi Ito’s Web
“Work is not just a series of tasks lined-up, one after the other. It is a...”
– Undercurrent – Working Here
“The maker movement is both a response to and an outgrowth of digital culture,...”
– Monitor: More than just digital quilting | The Economist
“A multi-tasker, juggling various responsibilities and roles, many which may have...”
– Journalists Must Become Makers, Not Just Consumers | Innovation @ BBG
“The need to memorize something is a twentieth-century skill. The need to...”
– John Perry Barlow (via putitperfectly)
BRYCE DOT VC: Rise of the Independents →
brycedotvc:
DHH put up a provocative post the other day questioning the societal norms of the startup culture. This isn’t a new rant for him or the 37signals crew, but he touched on a few things I thought worth amplifying. From the post:
The problem is that most “exciting new company” lore is…
“Instapaper is one person and no funding. I work completely from home. I don’t...”
– Jeff Atwood leaves Stack Exchange – Marco.org
Ohhh, snap
Piers Fawkes: We have noticed that people with similar interests, hobbies and needs can get to meet today through smart services that use a mix of social, location and demographic data to match profiles. Networks are looking at their members profiles on their site and across the social graph and link people up based on interests, needs, location. How has this seamless interconnectivity affected civic movements? What kind of opportunities does it present for the future/future collaborations around shared purpose?
Douglas Rushkoff: Well, I think the marketing frame you’re using could very well spell the death of this wonderful emergence of social activism. The social web has rekindled local ties that aren’t easily understood or over-simplified. Social media has not led to big global movements as much as lots of local ones. The kids on the streets or in the jails of Oakland right now have a common interest to the ones in Zucotti Park, but they are a different population. These things aren’t as easily branded, and that’s good. In other words, I think it’s a mistake to look at one’s social activism through the lens of brand affiliations and other mediated alliances. This is the opposite thing happening.
via PSFK: http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/douglas-rushkoff-social-media-week.html
“Having assumed that there were no longer physical backwaters in which new...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson
January 2012
14 posts
“If their legal arm gets out of control? This is an industry that demands payment...”
– Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestimates Hollywood « Clay Shirky
“Given everything a phone can do, suggesting that the screen is the most...”
– A conversation between Rob Walker and co-founder of Area/Code, Kevin Slavin : Observatory: Design Observer
“Do you work as a computer programmer, writer, editor, animator, or graphic...”
– Coworking at the Public Library | PCWorld
“We need to think smaller, not bigger, and with more attention to craft of...”
– Heart of Darkness: A Mild Polemic, by Jon Kolko - Core77
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...”
– E.E. Cummings (via sabbatical)
“Christensen also describes the impact of foreign outsourcing on many other...”
– Clayton Christensen: How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy - Forbes
“However, the status quo is getting so top-heavy and dysfunctional now, so...”
– The Maker Movement as a nascent industry: Big Making | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com
“All I can think is: we gave you the Internet. We gave you the Web. We gave you...”
– The President’s challenge - O’Reilly Radar
“So here we have this legislation, with all of these possible harms, to solve a...”
– Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA — Tech News and Analysis
“Do less. But do what you do with complete and hard focus. Then when you’re done...”
– Study Hacks » Blog Archive » If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers
“Here’s a glimpse of the future: Ubiquitous cheap sensors. Perpetual freelance...”
– The Freelance Panoptiswarm | Quiet Babylon
“It’s the internet’s fault that you don’t have a flying car.
We don’t always...”
– #playful11: you don’t need a flying car | Metamedia
“The scene is set for the open hardware ecosystem to blossom over the next couple...”
– Why the Best Days of Open Hardware are Yet to Come « bunnie’s blog
“That is, if you’re not in control of your inputs, you’re not really in control...”
– 12 tech leaders’ resolutions for 2012 — Tech News and Analysis
December 2011
14 posts
“Culture expands by subsuming its edges;the edges grow outward by defacing and...”
– Makers and breakers | Blog | Futurismic
“I think one of the things that really separates us from the high primates is...”
– Steve Jobs on Why Computers Are Like a Bicycle for the Mind (1990) | Brain Pickings
“These intermediaries, known as community knowledge workers (or CKWs), are chosen...”
– Africa’s mobile economic revolution | Technology | The Observer
“Harper does indeed have a Daily Mail plan. He has just signed a border agreement...”
– Canada goes tabloid | Heather Mallick | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
“Titus Levi, a professor at the United International College in Zhuhai, southern...”
– Asia Times Online :: THE ROVING EYE: Occupy World Street
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...”
– E.E. Cummings (via sabbatical)
Frank Chimero: A Series of Ill-Informed Hunches... →
viafrank:
I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say “none of your business” in the past 10 years. This is either because social media has deteriorated our sense of entitlement to privacy, we all lust after visibility now, or my manners have gotten better. I can not decide.
The word inception will soon be a…
“A major lesson I’ve learned (which I had to teach myself) is that it’s OK to cut...”
– Simplicity - Matt Gemmell
“pushing back at the shabbiness of simulacra”
– An Interview with William Gibson « Canadian Notes & Queries
“So stop getting caught off guard when your favorite project sells out! “They...”
– Don’t Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
“I found the material of the actual 21st Century richer, stranger, more...”
– BOOK EXPO AMERICA LUNCHEON TALK
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes - Digits - WSJ
“The hard question, I think, is: long-form writing benefits enormously from a...”
– Clay Shirky - The Barnes & Noble Review
“Watching the paper being printed, feeling the rumble of the machines, we became...”
– russell davies: again with the post digital
November 2011
15 posts
“Shanghai Government Technology committee has issued a call for a proposal to...”
– 3ders.org - Hackerspaces in China
“We’ll need to work on power. Unlike process speeds we’re not seeing...”
– 5 Minutes on The Verge: Limor Fried | The Verge
“I get the deeper happiness of knowing the lucky streak I’ve had in my life...”
– Why I gave away my company to charity | Derek Sivers
“People say that the Occupy movement has not been clear in its demands. I would...”
– The Turning Point: The Moral Example of UC Davis Students | Psychology Today
“Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing...”
– This Is What Revolution Looks Like | Common Dreams
“Life is what shapes us and work is how we take that and affect change on the...”
– Pendulums, Tea, and Jack Cheng | One Skinnyj
“Know yourself. Understand your feelings and desires, work to figure out what you...”
– Pendulums, Tea, and Jack Cheng | One Skinnyj
“There’s a spectrum of authority from “Good enough to settle a bar bet” to...”
– A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority « Clay Shirky
“Little could more change the internal dynamics of a party and its policy choices...”
– Canada News: Hébert: Want real change? Hit the ballot box instead of the streets - thestar.com
“Right now the social networking sites occupy a similar position to CompuServe,...”
– The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
“O’Reilly’s company slogan is: “changing the world by spreading the knowledge of...”
– All Watched Over: On FOO, Cybernetics, and Big Data | Ideas For Dozens