February 2012
55 posts
“…if you want to exploit network effects, forget about Influentials.
A...”
– Greg Satell “Exploding the Influentials Myth”
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So, so good. George FitzGerald presents Hotflush
“Social learning is really visual theft, and in a species that has it, it would...”
– Why remix culture and collaborative creativity are an evolutionary advantage.
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“The reality is that most executives don’t use social networks. And, to be...”
– Sorry, we’re closed: the rise of digital Darwinism
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“A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of...”
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4 a.m. warm, summer night, gorgeous. Good friends...
“Strategy:
1) an understanding of where you are now, 2) a clear sense of where...”
I hear Bastille and wistfully think, 'lo-fi...
“You don’t have to work hard at persuading clients to take innovative ideas...”
– A lesson we try to teach AD/CW/CD teams, every day. “It’s Cool!” isn’t enough. “It will have great P.R. value” isn’t enough. Your director-level client might buy it. But the C-suite demands the bigger picture stretching out into the future.
Ira Glass on perseverance, working through the...
“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really...”
– David Lynch (via kateoplis)
No Robots!
No Robots from YungHan Chang
Another reason why you should look beyond...
TORSTEN LAUSCHMANN - Digital Clock (Growing zeros), 2010 from Torsten Lauschmann on Vimeo.
“There’s no real brick-and-mortar analog for what they are building, and no...”
– On fab.com http://bit.ly/AE1S25
Why not use spotify, pandora, rdio or last.fm very...
Because hunting, gathering and discovering rewards my eager, inner child. Wonder and delight. Intense curiosity, fulfilled for the moment. For the same reason that guided tours of new cities never appear on my to-do list. Happy to put in the work, and read about a place. But prefer to walk and wander. Open to serendipity. And happy accidents.
“Good designers aim to move beyond what you get from simply asking consumers what...”
“When good designers talk about innovation, they mean ‘the successful...”
– – Simon Rucker
… the key to a future of Abundance is the ability of technology to generate exponential growth, rather than linear growth.
Linear growth is what gives you something like Angry Birds for Facebook.
Exponential growth is what gives you a radically new technology platform capable of changing the world. In a world now measured in terms of billions of potential consumers, iterating 30 times...
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”
– Alan Kay, via Jobs, via Isaacson
Jessie Ware + Sampha - "Valentine"
“Participation isn’t enough
Having a more clear-sighted view on people’s real...”
– mweigel
“The participation paradox…
So where does this get us?
It tells that a...”
– mweigel
“Designers talk a lot about Human-Centered Design where it is important to design...”
– Don Norman - “Does Culture Matter for Product Design?” http://bit.ly/woYelN
Erykah Badu X Jamie Woon X Hudson Mohawke
From Jack to Juke: 25 Years of Ghetto House
Ifan Dafydd - Treehouse
Overcrowded, overbuilt, and dystopic. Nine science...
WatchBoris Bidjan Saberi FW12
Ordos 100 is a construction project curated by...
One hundred architects from 27 countries were chosen to participate and each design a 1000-square-meter villa to be built in a new community in Inner Mongolia. The 100 villas would be designed to fit a master plan designed by Ai Weiwei.
On January 25, 2008, the 100 architects gathered in Ordos for a first visit to the site. The film Ordos 100 documents a total of three site visits, during which...
Nostalgic cotton candy as palate cleanser for all...
Isn’t it time we brought back Match Game? Imagine playing from home with Twitter. And all the opportunities for sponsorship from alcohol and pharma…
Are you having trouble coming up with ideas?...
Rick Owens X Michele Lamy - "I really can't...
