January 2011
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“What the Shard does do is change the sense of scale in the whole centre of the...”
– Rowan Moore writing in the Observer on The Shard: a symbol of towering ambition
There’s been a lot of wank lately about the state of architecture criticism - but yet here’s a piece in a major national Sunday paper doing a nice job of connecting design, history and economic forces to...
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“Yes, online petitions and “like” buttons do not work to bring about...”
– The Atlantic | Delusions Aside, the Net’s Potential Is Real
Brilliant response from Zeynep Tufekci to @evgenymorozov’s The Net Delusion. It’s particularly relevant in the UK given the recent student and #UKuncut protests. In a situation where the coalition lacks a coherent...
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Things I have been reading II
CES 2011: Trends, Implications for Marketers
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is a “harbinger of emerging media experiences, and offer insight into evolving consumption habits.” Here are three:
TV’s third dimension = sociability
Moving the backchannel - Twitter, Facebook, rolling news - from the second (laptop/phone/iPad) screen on to the first (TV)....
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“Research trend: The return of the representative
An early casualty of the data...”
– source: Tom Ewing’s 11 research trends for 2011
My thoughts: this is totally testable. We just return to (or begin?) doing research like a proper scientific study: with control groups.
You monitor the conversations going on “in the wild” through social media - the kinds of...
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“Few people think the baby boomers as individuals were deliberately trying to...”
– THIS.
Guardian publishes an article by Dinah Bisbee as a baby boomer basically saying “Waaah! Not our fault!” (Blame the banks & government, not us baby boomers, 6 Jan 2011).
The fact that her generation ran the banks and has been the dominant electoral force in voting for these...
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Facebook privacy warning - friends' apps
I keep a really close eye on my privacy settings, but Facebook still change them without warning and leave me unawares that I’m sharing things with applications I don’t even use.
Check out your settings for the following: Privacy settings > Apps, games & websites > Information accessible through your friends
“Use the settings below to control which of your...