June 2010
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“Two things make tall buildings possible: the steel frame and the safety...”
– From this wonderful New Yorker article by Nick Paumgarten (via the brilliant @STWnext)
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Watchnewyorker:
NEW VIDEO: Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks with James Surowiecki about the causes of the 2008 financial crisis and the future of the economy.
Read James Surowiecki’s piece from this week’s issue on the regulation crisis.
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“Half a century ago, medicine was neither costly nor effective. Since then,...”
– ‘The Velluvial Matrix’ by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker
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“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via colporteur)
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“Sites like Facebook, Twitter and others have allowed for the creation of what we...”
– ‘Why are our cars so dumb?’ by Alex Bogusky
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Brands that don't exist
I love Herbert Simon’s idea that we live in an ‘attention economy’. In a world where we are busier than ever, the ideas or brands that we choose to spend our time with have the most currency. Those that we choose to spend no time with don’t exist. This poses an incredible challenge for companies that are used to buying attention from mass media audiences that are declining...
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“I would argue that 4chan is ground zero of a new generation of hackers – those...”
– danah boyd | apophenia » “for the lolz”: 4chan is hacking the attention economy (via rafer)
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“Psychology is also at work when you look at the women of Paris. The principle at...”
– Ionarts via Marginal Revolution (via somethingchanged)
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“We are living through a similar explosion of publishing capability today, where...”
– From this brilliant WSJ piece by Clay Shirky.
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“The need to diet, which we know so well in relation to food, and which runs so...”
– Alain de Botton in “On Distraction,” for CITY Journal (via britticisms)
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“If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life,...”
– David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University (via withabang)
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“To some extent, Mad Men is male revenge for being made to watch Sex and the City...”
– Ogilvy’s Rory Sutherland in an interview after his awesome TED talk. Not sure that I agree with him but he has a funny take on it!
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“Unlike a TV ad projected on a 40-foot screen at earsplitting volume, it seemed...”
– ‘Bring on Digital: Why I No Longer Consider Myself a Traditionalist’, in AdAge. A traditional creative goes to One Show Interactive and comes back reformed.
May 2010
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WatchAwesome new ad for Honda’s FCX Clarity hydrogen car, by Wieden+Kennedy (via @granleese)