February 2012
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What Your Logo Looks Like To A 5-Year-Old… -... →
January 2012
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The Ultimate Productivity Blog →
5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012 →
Social/Digital Exhaustion
Facebook will break the 1 billion user mark in 2012, but its numbers have flattened out in the U.S. Twitter is growing; it may have as many 450 million users, but no one knows how many people are really active users. Google+ is growing steadily, but is still well behind the two most established networks and much of the public is unaware of its existence. There is the...
December 2011
7 posts
“Twitter is a serendipity machine. By my definition serendipity is unexpected...”
– Jeff Jarvis ‘Public Parts’ (via lanipauli)
Nice find: A list of 'hip shops' on various cities →
“Post-digital is not anti-digital. It extends digital into the beyond. The web...”
– Welcome to the post-digital world (link not working so here it is in all its glory: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/01/post-digital-world-web?CMP=twt_fd)
November 2011
8 posts
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Watchyoumightfindyourself:
SFMOMA: Less but Better – A Conversation with Dieter Rams
Just watching: Why we have too few women leaders –... →
… also worth reading (if you know German): this article about Sheryl Sandberg in Süddeutsche Magazine.
September 2011
9 posts
“The new social activism is simply a form of organizing which favors the weak-tie...”
– Very interesting article by Malcom Gladwell in The New Yorker about ‘Twitter, Facebook and social activism’ and the question if the next revolutions are really happening on and through the web, the difference between strong ties and weak ties and strategic activation vs. low-scale...
Google Sightseeing - Traveling with Google... →
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Watchclashofculture:
Break The Tiranny Of Big
Big problems don’t need big solutions. They need long lasting ideas build of small ideas. These small ideas are made of small actions that change people’s behavior and make a brand feel personal. To succeed in these actions you have to be humble, empathetic and interested in people’s lives.
This idea of “Think small” is what Gareth Kay presented at...
August 2011
12 posts
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs (via inspiri)
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“Curation is one of the big changes in blog characteristics that I’ve noticed in...”
– Jonathan Harris, quoted on design mind (via somethingchanged)
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“In the end everything already exists; we’re not inventors of anything. But this...”
– Ferran Adriá: He Might Be A Prophet. That, Or The Greatest Chef In The World. (via tarts)
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Evolution Of Generosity →
youmightfindyourself:
THE extraordinary success of Homo sapiens is a result of four things: intelligence, language, an ability to manipulate objects dexterously in order to make tools, and co-operation. Over the decades the anthropological spotlight has shifted from one to another of these as the prime mover of the package, and thus the fundament of the human condition. At the moment...
July 2011
3 posts
“Like” culture is antithetical to the concept of self-esteem, which a healthy...”
– The insidious evils of ‘Like’ culture, Neil Strauss (thanks to scottesdaile for sharing) (via lanipauli)
Sherry Turkle on the impact of technology on our...
Thirty years ago we asked what we would use computers for. Now the question is what we don’t use them for. Now, through technology, we create, navigate and carry out our emotional lives. We shape our buildings, Winston Churchill argued, then they shape us. The same is true of our digital technologies. Technology has become the architect of our intimacies.
Online, we face a moment of temptation....
June 2011
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May 2011
15 posts
“In the new world of curation, “information becomes currency and the ability to...”
– Drew Neisser, Fast Company, Capitalizing on Curation: Why the New Curators are Beating the Old
(via PSFK)
