May 2013
4 posts
Blinded By Big Data: It's The Models, Stupid –... →
What does “BIG DATA” mean for official statistics? →
Watch(via Nikolai Bernstein and the neurophysiology of labor (1931))
April 2013
3 posts
“Critique shouldn’t stop us from acting or, in my opinion, tell us how to act....”
– 5 Things About Ubiquitous Computing That Make Me Nervous | Design Culture Lab
WatchBruce Sterling: Closing Keynote (by Interaction Design Association)
February 2013
1 post
January 2013
6 posts
“Most of the technologies which we expect to deliver the future are the opposite...”
– No Dads, No Filters | booktwo.org
“As it happens I once related the 15 seconds anecdote to someone else from Apple,...”
– Air quotes, product ( 8 Mar., 2012, at Interconnected)
“We have people who are in our office whose parents haven’t changed their...”
– The Verge Interview: Ambient Devices CEO Pritesh Gandhi on ‘glanceable’ data | The Verge
Watch“We cannot say we know the devices in our pockets. We find ourselves dependent on infrastructure that we don’t understand. If you cannot unpack, or describe, the constituent engineered parts of your environment, you cannot critically engage with the world you live, because you can’t see your world, you can’t describe it. The children’s book reality that we rely on to describe the world...
“We are the city, our patterns of behaviour and actions construct the cultural...”
– This Space Is Not For Sale « SB129
December 2012
6 posts
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,...”
– Alvin Toffler (via bashford)
“Finally, we need to change the way that we collectively think about data, so...”
– Big Data Is Not the New Oil - Jer Thorp - Harvard Business Review
“I never drew a cloud: I preferred to the draw the earth/ground symbol. You...”
– scraplab: The Full Spectrum White Noise of the Network
November 2012
5 posts
Random Shopper: Randomized Consumerism →
randomshopper:
Hi. I’m Darius Kazemi. Recently I’ve been making a bunch of weird stuff that randomly generates things. For example, there’s the Twitter account @metaphorminute, which tweets a random metaphor every couple minutes. There’s also OutSlide, which generates a slide deck from an outline that you…
“This is a result of the network’s inherent illegibility, its tendency towards...”
– Under the Shadow of the Drone | booktwo.org
“Because of the invisibility of any environment during the period of its...”
– Marshall McLuhan (via bashford)
“‘Social Denim’ lets you quickly click the device to let people know your current...”
– Send Social Media Updates Through Your Jeans - PSFK
October 2012
4 posts
September 2012
10 posts
Watch(via Words of a middle man - Incom)
“In order to design all parts of emoto, we needed to develop an understanding of...”
– Emoto - Visualising the emotional response to the Olympics, London2012
stamen design | Trees, Cabs & Crime in the Venice... →
August 2012
5 posts
June 2012
4 posts
“Even now, data is everywhere, all the time. It defines, describes and determines...”
– How data could revolutionise urban life - Open-data Cities Conference
May 2012
1 post
April 2012
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