From the monthly archives:

March 2008

● Our collective recent history, online

● Our collective recent history, online
In past few years, several prominent US magazines and newspapers have begun to offer their extensive archives online and …

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Has the word “friend” lost its meaning?

Has the word “friend” lost its meaning?
When Everyones a Friend, Whats a Friend? – Shifting Careers – Small Business – New York Times Blog…

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If your computer desktop is anything like mine—and, brother, it is—you’ve paved over every spare pixel in an iconistan of clutter. Desktop design originated in a wistful visual metaphor, the clean, still work surface, encouraging users to productive ends. Leaps forward in computing horsepower and the rise of constant Internet use has transformed the tabletop terra firma into a cockpit, an antic terminal for the networked self. Our desktops are now a thick impasto of tabbed windows, pull-down menus, dashboard widgets, and application alerts. No possible distraction gets left behind, no link, feed, IM, twitter, or poke unheeded.

If your computer desktop is anything like mine—and, brother, it is—you’ve paved over every spare pixel in an iconistan of clutter. Desktop design originated in …

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At last March’s Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference in Monterey, CA, a summit that’s been described as “Davos for the digerati,” the calm-voiced software architect from Microsoft began his demonstration abruptly, navigating rapidly across a sea of images displayed on a large screen. Using Seadragon, a technology that enables smooth, speedy exploration of large sets of text and image data, he dove effortlessly into a 300-megapixel map, zooming in to reveal a date stamp from the Library of Congress in one corner. Then he turned to an image that looked like a bar code but was actually the complete text of Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, zooming in until two crisp-edged typeset characters filled the screen, before breezily reverse-zooming back to the giant quilt of text and images.

At last March’s Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference in Monterey, CA, a summit that’s been described as “Davos for the digerati,” the calm-voiced software architect …

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The World’s 50 Best Works of Art (and how to see them) « Random knowledge

The World’s 50 Best Works of Art (and how to see them) « Random knowledge…

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Style is about reading more than it is about writing. I started out with the assumption that clarity didn’t inhere in the text — it was in the response of the reader. How do you predict, on the basis of what you see in the text, what the algorithm will be?

Style is about reading more than it is about writing. I started out with the assumption that clarity didn’t inhere in the text — it …

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A post by Jonah Lehrer about thinking under pressure links…

A post by Jonah Lehrer about thinking under pressure links…
A post by Jonah Lehrer about thinking under pressure links deliberate practice with another of …

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Revenge Of The Experts

Revenge Of The Experts

A backlash against the amateur is in our future?
 A Newsweek article on the apparent trend towards expertise stirred a lot …

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