Here and There: Banksy on Advertising
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening…
@tomjd What’s the source of this Banksy quote?
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“Forget” by Liana La Havas (Shlohmo remix)
A perfect remix, incorporating Shlomo’s signature heavy moods and sensuous beats with Liane’s clear vocals. I’ve been obsessed for weeks.
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Erica and Lief, Manamana, Jan 2012
Source: SoundCloud / Brooks Jordan
The way I see it, there’s a lack of need for any legislation at all. As a publisher, I have a very deep experience here, and the fact is that piracy is not a significant problem. Yes, there are people who are pirating my books, there are people who are sharing links to places where they can be downloaded. But the vast majority of customers are willing to pay if the product is widely available and the price is fair.
Tim O’Reilly
Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA — Tech News and Analysis
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The Rise of the New Groupthink
Anyone who has ever needed noise-canceling headphones in her own office or marked an online calendar with a fake meeting in order to escape yet another real one knows what I’m talking about.
I do both all the time.
Source: The New York Times
One of the things I try to do when I build software is to find a balance between making products that will naturally appeal to people, but without being exploitative of human nature. It is a challenge but I think it’s doable. I’m interested in user-generated content, community, collaboration and people’s creativity and self-expression. When you work with these kinds of things, technology can make you more human, rather than less; it can be humanizing rather than de-humanizing. How to build something like this is an art, not a science. There’s no formula. You have to feel your way there.
Source: gigaom.com
The unexpected, the obstacles, many times (always?) yields the coolest solutions. We just experienced that on our redesign project.
John Hagel on Empowerment, Management Fears, and Social Software in Business
AL: How is the empowerment of the individual, especially through social media, affecting management?
From Social Business To Superlinear Corporation
How do we make corporations more like cities, which get more productive as they grow bigger? Help me with my ongoing research project.
RT @johnbattelle: For Start-Ups, Sorting the Data Cloud Is the Next Big Thing: http://t.co/GhOAAF1F #wwhw
The busiest day of the year at Whole Foods OAK. http://t.co/A267IAXU
What do you do with 260,000 car keys? What about 29,000 credit cards? Chris Jordan creates breathtaking images with thousands of tiny products. His creations are shocking and sometimes disturbing, always to attract attention to a social cause.
Love his work.
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RT @rjs: Giving myself inbox 0 for Christmas.
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