Monday, October 19, 2009
“Looking for design in the Supermarket (as opposed to a specialty retailer like Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s) is a bit like bird-watching indoors. To end up here, Design ideas need to trickle down well past the middle-brow and survive extreme pressures of low margins and fast turn.” | Amazon Introduces same day delivery | Google launches Fetch as Googlebot within webmaster tools | I need a firplace for these Burning Cities Firescreens.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
A few months ago Wired Magazine wrote a piece about the potential of Facebook surpassing Google search in Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out. Their largest argument to make this point:
“At press time, [Facebook] was also planning to launch Facebook Search, allowing users to scour one another’s feeds. Want to see what some anonymous schmuck thought about the Battlestar Galactica finale? Check out Google. Want to see what your friends had to say? Try Facebook Search.”
The future of search most assuredly involves your network of friends, family & peers, but the spot for that search will not be Facebook. Their largest hurdle is that Facebooks Great Wall is holding back a Great Mound of useless garbage.
I’m convinced that the content within Facebook will never rise to a level of usability required to dominate the internet in the fashion Wired believes. Facebook, or someone else specializing in this type of content will always thrive, but will remain as they are today; a completely separate, much less useful version of some other kind of web.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Some fantastic walks in New York are coming up for the week of October 18-24, including “Sustainable Skyscrapers: Times Square Goes Green”… learn about the reactive interiors and intelligent materials that make up the Bank of America Tower and six more of the city’s greenest buildings. | Some Lectures of interest are taking place soon at SVA, including Jason Fried (37Signals), Callie Neylan (NPR) and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress), amongst others.
Over 1,860 issues, covering the years from 1936 to 1972 of Life Magazine are now available on Google Books. Get started by selecting a thumbnail from the thumbnails of every Life Magazine available. Dig into an individual magazine via scans of each page. More details on the Google Books blog. Google Books, Making printed material collections less relevant by the minute. Well, more relevant.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
2006 Feature Photography Pulitzer Prize winner Todd Heisler | During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s when the Cold War was escalating, the U.S. government built hundreds of Atlas-F missile silos to prepare the country for an attack that never came. Today, most of these silos lie abandoned and filled with water, monuments to a bygone era of American history and left to waste. But now, thanks to two entrepreneurial cousins, Bruce Francisco and Gregory Gibbons, one of these silos located in beautiful Adirondack State Park near Lake Placid is finding new life as a luxury home safe haven getaway complex accessible by plane or car. | Touted as the first positive energy office structure, Elithis Tower, Dijon, France creates more power than it uses and produces six times less greenhouse gas emissions than classic commercial buildings. | Photoshop app now on your iPhone, video review
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
The Cost Conundrum in June 1, 2009 issue of The New Yorker takes a look at why McAllen, Texas is one of the most expensive healthcare markets in the country. Medicare spent $15,000 per enrollee here, almost twice the national average. Atul Gawande looks at the possible reasons for such high costs from every conceivable angle. Obesity? Alcoholism? Fabulous care? Overuse? Misuse? Turns out, none of the above. Gawande has created an eye opening read we all should take in.
“The more money Medicare spent per person in a given state the lower that state’s quality ranking tended to be. In fact, the four states with the highest levels of spending—Louisiana, Texas, California, and Florida—were near the bottom of the national rankings on the quality of patient care.” (infographic: the Quality of Care VS the Cost of Medicare)
Unrelated to healthcare but still interesting: Dallas Clayton’s An Awesome Book is just that. | People reading at Barnes and Noble from Every Person in NY | Friends of Type
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Today’s update comes from me spending lots of time on Things Magazine. I love the site and their approach to discussing, pointing out, shouting about, whispering quietly amongst themselves, today’s potentially cluttered online culture. Sometimes they expound, sometimes they don’t. It’s art with some noise, noise with some meaning or even none at all. So I’ve borrowed heavily. It’s one of the few sites I leave Google Reader to read. Jammed in among popular noise makers, few sites demand such attention. There’s a couple of random patterns in use with these updated styles, the newest from Pattern Foundry and a squiggly lines pattern of my own creation which has stuck around.
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
There’s a great article in the September 2009 National Geographic titled Plugging Into the Sun by George Johnson.
The total power needs of the humans on Earth is approximately 16 terawatts… The sunsunshine on the solid part of the Earth is 120,000 terawatts. Energy from the sun is virtually unlimited.
The first solar revolution 30 years ago fizzled, but at some point this stuff has got to stick.
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
My buddy Tom (Empire Cycle Works, Philadelphia Motorcycles) works on bikes and I’ve been thinking it’d be awfully fun to get a project bike to work on, and naturally, cruise on.
Bear with his unfinished site, I’ll be teaching him what I know about making websites in exchange for some monkey wrench lessons. Although, that homepage is pretty damn hot!
If I was to drive a motorcycle, it’d be something like one of these. I’m really diggin’ the all black 1980 Suzuki at this moment in time:
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Gatorade really gets it. I can’t wait to see what they’re up to, via SMS.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Using an application for Twitter in no way makes Twitter relevant. Using Twitter in no way makes Twitter relevant. Even if its marketing might allows you to bum rush an attention craving industry, the end result adds little value.
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