Archive for February, 2008
links for 2008-02-12: connect the dots la la la la

links for 2008-02-12: connect the dots la la la la

Posted 12 February 2008 | By | Categories: activism, advertising, animals, better world, creativity, culture, links, love, marketing, photography, science, taste, technology, travel, video, webstuff | 1 Comment

Todays links are about freedom of communication across the globe — from kids posting video in Uruguay to people coming together to create free wifi networks in sydney, australia and wellington, new zealand. Valentines greetings from scientists. Robotic insects. Social networking’s ad revolution. Pixish, a new kind of marketplace for photography.

G1G2 – Get One Give Two XO OLPCs

G1G2 – Get One Give Two XO OLPCs

Posted 11 February 2008 | By | Categories: activism, better world, consumerism, creativity, culture, design, emily approved, environment, happiness, interconnected, marketing, observations, passions, product review, sustainability, technology | 4 Comments

Waveplace’s XO OLPC pilot program in Haiti needs your XO PCs. Emily’s analysis of the XO PC and requirements for next laptop.

links for 2008-02-10

links for 2008-02-10

Posted 10 February 2008 | By | Categories: activism, animals, art, better world, consumerism, creativity, culture, design, emily approved, environment, flowers, food, gardening, links, nyc, senses, sustainability, technology | No Comments

Betting a Farm Would Work in Queens – New York Times Sur les paves la ferme (Over the pavement, the farm), is the theme of Work Architecture‘s winning proposal for P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center‘s 2008 summer courtyard. Reflects the movement from industrialization to postindustrialization, from global to local, from free market to farmer’s market, and [...]

links for 2008-02-09

Posted 09 February 2008 | By | Categories: links | No Comments

In Popular Terms In Popular Terms is an interactive visualization that tracks the shifting language of ecology. It maps the catch phrases, scientific technologies, and bumper sticker slogans that surround the changing language used to describe our relationship to nature. (tags: ecology environment buzzwords visualization informationvisualization) Molly Wright Steenson’s Brief History of Boredom Boredom is [...]

What to Wear in NextCity

What to Wear in NextCity

Posted 09 February 2008 | By | Categories: advertising, ask emily, consumerism, culture, design, environment, fashion, health, marketing, nyc, observations, retail, shopping, technology | No Comments

Tinfoil hats are so passé. So what should you wear to Faraday’s Cafe? Check out the latest collection of electromagnetic field blocking and “anti-identity theft” clothing at DDCLAB (427 W 14th St, New York NY 10014 map). Here’s the text from the windows: EMF: Electro Magnetic Field Block Anti•Identity•Theft•Fabric Electric Resistivity measure of how strongly [...]

NextCity: The Art of the Possible

NextCity: The Art of the Possible

Posted 09 February 2008 | By | Categories: activism, art, better world, creativity, culture, design, environment, fashion, gardening, happiness, interconnected, people, science, sustainability, technology | 2 Comments

Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, Speedbird, Urban Computing and its Discontents, and the upcoming The City is Here for You to Use, moderated an excellent panel discussion that included Christian Nold (who we loved at Pop!Tech), Eric Rodenbeck of Stamen Design, and J. Meejin Yoon of MY Studio and Howeler + Yoon Architecture. Here are the notes I took during the talk.

Dancing around the Planet

Posted 06 February 2008 | By | Categories: travel | Comments Off

If you have seen the wild tsechu masked dances in Bhutan, you have seen something special. Will they continue?

links for 2008-02-05

Posted 05 February 2008 | By | Categories: links | No Comments

SpaceCollective “where forward thinking terrestrials exchange ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction today” (tags: toexplore space science future scifi visualization generative emergence navigation) February 4, 2008 update from David Weinberger 2 great articles: Is the Web different? Is the Web just [...]

links for 2008-02-04

links for 2008-02-04

Posted 04 February 2008 | By | Categories: activism, art, better world, consumerism, creativity, culture, design, environment, happiness, health, interconnected, links, marketing, movies, music, sustainability, technology | No Comments

Unevenly Distributed: Production Models for the 21st Century Mark Pesce illuminates how the audience became not just the distributors but the producers of their own content, and have brought down the walls which separate pros from amateurs. Then he outlines the future: how the value of media is based on salience. (tags: mustread media production [...]

links for 2008-02-03

Posted 03 February 2008 | By | Categories: links | No Comments

Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky, most lucid thinker on social effects of communication tools, launches new book and thought provoking blog, Here Comes Everybody, about what happens when people have the tools to do things together without needing traditional organizational structures. Eureka! It Really Takes Years of Hard Work Epiphany has little to do with [...]

links for 2008-02-02

links for 2008-02-02

Posted 02 February 2008 | By | Categories: links | No Comments

Google China Released Holiday Mass Migration Map (tags: google China internet map maps mashup weather service)

links for 2008-02-01

Posted 01 February 2008 | By | Categories: links | No Comments

BBC NEWS | Africa | GPS helps pygmies defend forest When Baka pygmies in Cameroon go into the forest to hunt and gather, they take GPS units to record locations of hunting grounds, sacred trees and rivers. Before if someone chopped down a tree, there was no proof it existed. Now there is. Watch the [...]