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Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist - The New York Times

DirkSonguer — 2018-06-21T21:19:33+00:00

Apple employees are already discussing what they will do if ordered to help law enforcement authorities. Some say they may balk at the work, while others may even quit their high-paying jobs rather than undermine the security of the software they have already created, according to more than a half-dozen current and former Apple employees.

The $500 Million Battle Over Disney’s Princesses

DirkSonguer — 2018-06-21T21:13:32+00:00

But not for long: The princess business disappears on Jan. 1, when Disney packs up its glass slippers and takes them to Mattel’s biggest rival, Hasbro. “Disney Princess was probably the greatest coup that Hasbro has had in the last three decades,” says Gene Del Vecchio, a former Ogilvy & Mather executive who has worked with Mattel and Disney in the past and helps Hollywood studios translate their movies into what he calls “merchandise opportunities.” Adweek likens Hasbro’s achievement to the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series.

Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The I…

DirkSonguer — 2018-06-21T21:01:20+00:00

This is a collection of thoughts around where we are right now in the history of the Internet. I believe we're getting ahead of ourselves, confusing the growth of the Internet with it growing up, but I also believe we're doing some amazing things, and can draw a few lines in the sand, making some solid guesses on where we are going.

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DirkSonguer — 2018-06-21T20:58:20+00:00

This paper is an introduction to the “Future IKEA Catalogue”, enclosed here as an example of a design fiction produced from a long standing industrial-academic collaboration. We introduce the catalogue here by discussing some of our experiences using design fiction` with companies and public sector bodies, giving some background to the catalogue and the collaboration which produced it. We have found design fiction to be a useful tool to support collaboration with industrial partners in research projects – it provides a way of thinking and talking about present day concepts, and present day constraints, without being overly concerned with contemporary challenges, or the requirements of academic validation. In particular, there are two main aspects of this we will discuss here, aspects that are visible in the enclosed catalogue itself. The first is the potential of design fiction as a sort of ‘boundary object’ in industry and academic collaboration, and second the role of critique. After this introduction to the paper we enclose the output of our collaboration in the form of the catalogue itself.

Hugh MacLeod connects the dots

DirkSonguer — 2018-06-21T20:37:25+00:00

EXPLORE HUGH MACLEOD’S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO LIFE INSIDE MICROSOFT Cartoonist Hugh MacLeod’s mission is to make art that transforms how companies do business. Read our profile of Hugh to learn more.

Emojineering Part 1: Machine Learning for Emoji Trends

DirkSonguer — 2018-06-21T20:32:43+00:00

It is a rare privilege to observe the rise of a new language. Instagram has always supported emoji, but they did not see wide adoption until the introduction of the emoji keyboard on iOS (October 2011) and on most Android platforms (July 2013). The graph below shows the percentage of text (comments and captions) containing emoji characters graphed over time

How I Became A Minor Celebrity In China (After My Stolen Phone Ended Up There)

DirkSonguer — 2018-06-21T20:30:37+00:00

I was sitting on my couch in the living room looking at my photo stream, you know, looking for something to Instagram. That's when I noticed a bunch of pictures I hadn't taken. Like, a lot of them. They were mostly of this man taking selfies with an orange tree. To be honest, it was pretty funny but also fucking terrifying because I didn't take the pictures.

Tim Cook: 'I'm Proud to Be Gay' - Bloomberg

DirkSonguer — 2018-06-21T20:22:19+00:00

I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.”\n

Etwas aus der Reihe, aber sehr lesenswert.

Conan O'Brien: David Letterman disrupted the medium and that's what made him a legend

DirkSonguer — 2017-10-23T06:43:39+00:00

As late night’s beloved curmudgeon prepares to throw his final pencil (after 33 years and 6,024 episodes), we asked his friends and guests to share their best David Letterman stories. Fellow talk show host Conan O’Brien explained in depth why the man who brought us so many Top Ten lists will always be No. 1.

How Right-Wing Media Saved Obamacare - The Atlantic

DirkSonguer — 2017-03-27T15:53:10+00:00

But dogged, behind-the-scenes reporting and sharp analysis of fissures among policy elites do not capture another important contributor to last week’s failure—one Josh Barro came closest to unpacking in a column titled, “Republicans lied about healthcare for years, and they're about to get the punishment they deserve.”

Republicans lied about healthcare for years and deserve punishment - Business Insider

DirkSonguer — 2017-03-27T15:52:25+00:00

For years, Republicans promised lower premiums, lower deductibles, lower co-payments, lower taxes, lower government expenditure, more choice, the restoration of the $700 billion that President Barack Obama heartlessly cut out of Medicare because he hated old people, and (in the particular case of the Republican who recently became president) "insurance for everybody" that is "much less expensive and much better" than what they have today. They were lying. Over and over and over and over, Republicans lied to the American public about healthcare. It was impossible to do all of the things they were promising together, and they knew it.

The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens | New Republic

DirkSonguer — 2016-12-31T12:38:25+00:00

It had taken Pizza more than two years to reach this milestone. In late 2010 she had signed up for Tumblr, the then-three-year-old social network, and secured the URL IWantMyFairyTaleEnding.tumblr.com. At first, she mostly posted photos of party outfits—hipster photos, she thought. They were the kind of images you might find under the “summery” Tumblr tag: poolside drinks, sunsets, sundresses, palm trees, tiny succulents; a shopping list of the things she wanted to buy, if only she had the money. Pizza also wrote some funny one-liners, but otherwise she reblogged jokes, switching back and forth between fashion and comedy. She tried out new names, new personas, changing her URL a few times; after a couple of years, she went all-joke. By the end of 2012, she had amassed 90,000 followers, a respectable number for a Tumblr, a sign she’d earned a certain amount of fame in her circle—the teens who reblogged her jokes. She then changed her domain to pizza.tumblr.com, her followers started to call her Pizza, and her numbers began to climb. That same year, she turned 15.

Teal Organizations – Home

DirkSonguer — 2016-11-21T09:25:55+00:00

The Teal paradigm refers to the next stage in the evolution of human consciousness.[1] When applied to organizations, this paradigm views the organization as an independent force with its own purpose, and not merely as a vehicle for achieving management's objectives. Teal organizations are characterized by self-organization and self-management. The hierarchical "predict and control" pyramid of Orange is replaced with a decentralized structure consisting of small teams that take responsibility for their own governance and for how they interact with other parts of the organization. Assigned positions and job descriptions are replaced with a multiplicity of roles, often self-selected and fluid. People’s actions are guided not by orders from someone up the chain of command but by ‘listening’ to the organization’s purpose. Unlike the highly static nature of Amber, Orange and Green organizations, the organizational structure in Teal is characterized by rapid change and adaptation, as adjustments are continuously made to better serve the organization's purpose.

How Did Walmart Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales? It Paid Its People More - The New York Times

DirkSonguer — 2016-10-18T15:16:34+00:00

How Did Walmart Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales? It Paid Its People More

The Real Reason Uber is Failing in Japan

DirkSonguer — 2016-08-05T07:45:16+00:00

Uber and, to a lesser extent, Airbnb are failing horribly in Japan. There have been quite a few articles that have tried to explain what this is, and most of those articles have focused on why the market conditions in Japan make it hard for those companies. These is certainly some truth to those articles, but they miss a larger and much more important factor about why these companies are struggling in Japan and in Asia in general. You see, Uber and Airbnb represent a new very kind of startup, one that could not have existed twenty years ago, and the reason has nothing to do with smartphones or cloud computing or anything related to technology at all.

How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

DirkSonguer — 2016-07-06T11:59:03+00:00

We’re not so naive as to think we can change human nature altogether; where there are humans, there will be feelings to consider, and politics will crop up. But when we approach our interactions thoughtfully, a company’s culture can be a powerful antibody against destructive office politics. We’ve found five tactics especially useful in our effort to keep our company culture healthy and productive.

Google misfires as it aims to turn Star Trek fiction into reality

DirkSonguer — 2016-06-07T07:54:44+00:00

“I think about it as the vaporware culture,” Pozner said, using slang for announced technology products that don’t actually exist — a ploy often used to scare competing firms away from a market opportunity. Verily said that it prefers to avoid early disclosures, but that sometimes external events force its hand, such as a patent filing that would have revealed elements of the Tricorder in December 2014. “Part of the Silicon Valley ethos is about changing the world, about disruptive technology, about ignoring existing business models,” and “taking on grand challenges,” Pozner said. “That’s admirable,” she said, but in Verily’s case, “it also feels pretty quixotic.”

Tony Fadell Defends His Record and Methods - Bloomberg

DirkSonguer — 2016-06-05T09:40:21+00:00

Over the past couple of months, Nest employees grumbled openly about what they see as severe problems inside the company. One engineer hopped on Reddit with a screed full of personal attacks directed toward Fadell and claims that Nest had missed sales targets, botched product upgrades and delayed future launches. Greg Duffy, founder of Dropcam, chimed in, saying he made a mistake selling the camera startup to Nest in 2014. Duffy blamed Nest’s divisive culture for an exodus of employees and claimed Dropcam’s products were much hotter than Nest’s gear.

Fadell, on his time at Nest – 512 Pixels

DirkSonguer — 2016-06-05T09:29:12+00:00

Fadell: You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. That style may not be for everyone. But, you know, there are people that worked with me years ago at General Magic, and they have their kids working for me now. If it was true, it would get around like crazy. The Valley’s a small place. I’ve been here 25 years, right?

Is Tony Fadell In Nest’s Way? | TechCrunch

DirkSonguer — 2016-06-05T09:28:33+00:00

Last week, we witnessed something fairly remarkable. A major Alphabet executive — Nest Labs CEO Tony Fadell — publicly shamed the cofounder and employees of Dropcam, the connected camera company that Nest had acquired in 2014 for $555 million.

My Renewed Hope for Microsoft | Tracey Lovejoy | LinkedIn

DirkSonguer — 2016-04-01T13:11:16+00:00

Over the last year my hope has been ignited that things are getting better because of what I’ll call the ‘snowflakes of Satya’. Increasingly I see articles like this one that shine light on the culture shift that the new CEO, Satya Nadella, is bringing to Microsoft. I hear employees talking of changing behaviors that mirror Satya’s personal attributes, such as gentleness not brute force, listening not just talking, expressing disappointment rather than throwing insults and chairs. I hear about experimental leadership programs across the company. It feels like the snowflakes of Satya are falling all around Microsoft. While these snowflakes make me feel hopeful, the changes so far feel a bit like a by-product of Satya’s natural disposition, rather than shifts with a clear destination.

Why AlphaGo Is Not AI - IEEE Spectrum

DirkSonguer — 2016-03-22T11:21:07+00:00

What is AI and what is not AI is, to some extent, a matter of definition. There is no denying that AlphaGo, the Go-playing artificial intelligence designed by Google DeepMind that recently beat world champion Lee Sedol, and similar deep learning approaches have managed to solve quite hard computational problems in recent years. But is it going to get us to full AI, in the sense of an artificial general intelligence, or AGI, machine? Not quite, and here is why.

How To Understand An Introvert, In One Chart

DirkSonguer — 2015-04-25T09:57:05+00:00

But if you just don't identify with any of these characteristics (and don't understand how anyone else does, either), fear not. Artist Roman Jones has created a handy guide that details everything you need to know about the "quiet type." Read on to discover what introverts really think on a daily basis. Who knows? You may be able to relate to the personality type more than you thought.

The Pizza Party Where Everyone Got Fired

DirkSonguer — 2015-03-15T19:51:38+00:00

For months now we've been covering the way game publishers and development studios treat their employees in an attempt to spotlight the painful and unstable environment behind many of the games we love. (See our companion feature for a look at why layoffs happen so often in gaming.)1

Why Did 9,000 Porny Spambots Descend on This San Diego High Schooler? - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

DirkSonguer — 2014-07-14T07:58:18+00:00

It was around 5pm last Thursday when Olivia, a San Diego high school student, noticed that something interesting was going on with her Twitter account. A swarm of 30 women with sexy profile pictures had just followed her on the social networking service. "guys wtf 30 PORNSTARS JUST FOLLOWED ME WHATS HAPPENING," she tweeted to her 600 or so followers.

Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast | TechCrunch

DirkSonguer — 2014-04-30T15:45:14+00:00

I used to think corporate culture didn’t matter. Discussion of vision, mission and values was for people who couldn’t build product or sell it! We had work to do and this MBA BS was getting in the way! And then my first company failed. Cambridge Decision Dynamics did not fail because we didn’t have a great technology or a great product or customers. It failed as a sustainable, scalable organization because we had no meaningful purpose to create team unity to fight through the tough times. Now the company sits comfortably in a perpetual state of what I like to call “deep stealth mode.”

Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem - NYTimes.com

DirkSonguer — 2014-03-13T20:39:29+00:00

The Cisco Meraki office in Mission Bay, San Francisco, is 40 paces from the water, and just as nice as Google’s. On a clear winter day in late December, I sat in one of its conference rooms with a company spokeswoman on my right and Sanjit Biswas on my left, peering out through floor-to-ceiling glass. On the other side: brightly patterned furniture, murals and paneled wood, a well-stocked cafeteria, a deck with spectacular views of the bay. Twelve months earlier, in a deal meant to bring fresh edge to Cisco, the networking behemoth bought Meraki from Biswas and two co-founders for $1.2 billion. Now they were making good on their promise — starting with the décor.

Apple - Designed By Apple - Intention - YouTube

DirkSonguer — 2014-03-04T10:49:21+00:00

Here, simple phrases paired with elegant visuals describe the thoughts and emotions that go into creating each Apple product.

Why does Google keep making products for nobody? | The Tech Block

DirkSonguer — 2014-01-19T11:20:12+00:00

Just look at Chromebook Pixel for example. How many people are really going to spend $1300 on a high-resolution Chromebook? Are techies going to? No so much. Are everyday consumers going to? Hell no. Why even build it? To prove that they can build a high-resolution laptop for $1300? At this point, any hardware manufacturer can do that. Just go to your local Best Buy. Or what about Google Glass? If Glass dropped by half, or even a quarter of its current price, would consumers buy it? I’d wager that most wouldn’t because no price drop would change the awkwardness of wearing one in public.

What the Steamship and the Landline Can Tell Us About the Decline of the Private Car - Emily Badger - The Atlantic Cities

DirkSonguer — 2013-03-27T19:30:36+00:00

This prediction sounds bold primarily for the fact that most of us don't think about technology – or the history of technology – in century-long increments: “We’re probably closer to the end of the automobility era than we are to its beginning,” says Maurie Cohen, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. “If we’re 100 years into the automobile era, it seems pretty inconceivable that the car as we know it is going to be around for another 100 years.”

This Guy Became An Expert On Syrian Arms Trafficking, Just By Watching YouTube | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

DirkSonguer — 2013-03-27T19:27:42+00:00

Last October, Eliot Higgins, a 34-year-old resident of Leicester, England, lost his job. With time to waste, he turned to YouTube. Now, he’s one of the world’s foremost experts on the flow of illegal weapons into war-torn Syria. Huh?

ViralSearch: Identifying and Visualizing Viral Content - Microsoft Research

DirkSonguer — 2013-03-08T16:44:37+00:00

What does it mean for online content to “go viral”? An analysis of almost a billion information cascades on Twitter news, videos, and photos has produced the first quantitative notion of whether something has indeed gone viral, thereby enabling further research into topic experts, trending topics, and viral-incident metrics.

‘It Might Not Get Weirder Than This’

DirkSonguer — 2013-01-25T08:11:07+00:00

Go to North Korea if you can. It is very, very strange. If it is January, disregard the above. It is very, very cold. Nothing I'd read or heard beforehand really prepared me for what we saw.

Hunter S. Thompson's Daily Routine Was Way More Intense Than Your Daily Routine

DirkSonguer — 2013-01-11T13:37:33+00:00

Hunter S. Thompson's Daily Routine Was Way More Intense Than Your Daily Routine But not mine. Mine's pretty much exactly like this.

Coding Horror: Computer Crime, Then and Now

DirkSonguer — 2012-09-13T07:31:18+00:00

Cuckoo is arguably the first case of hacking that was a clearly malicious crime circa 1986, and certainly the first known case of computer hacking as international espionage. I read this when it was originally published in 1989, and it's still a gripping investigative story. Cliff Stoll is a visionary writer who saw how trust in computers and the emerging Internet could be vulnerable to real, actual, honest-to-God criminals. I'm not sure Kevin Mitnick did anything all that illegal, but there's no denying that he was the world's first high profile computer criminal.

Why Millennials Don't Want To Buy Stuff

DirkSonguer — 2012-07-15T21:30:05+00:00

The Atlantic's article "Why Don't Young Americans Buy Cars?" mused recently about Millennials' tendency to not care about owning a vehicle. The subtitle: "Is this a generational shift, or just a lousy economy at work?" What if it's not an "age thing" at all? What's really causing this strange new behavior (or rather, lack of behavior)? Generational segments have profound impacts on perception and behavior, but an "ownership shift" isn't isolated within the Millennial camp. A writer for USA Today shows that all ages are in on this trend, but instead of an age group, he blames the change on the cloud, the heavenly home our entertainment goes to when current media models die. As all forms of media make their journey into a digital, de-corporeal space, research shows that people are beginning to actually prefer this disconnected reality to owning a physical product.

BBC News - Jeff Ragsdale: The man who gave the world his number

DirkSonguer — 2012-07-12T15:02:52+00:00

When Jeff Ragsdale went through a difficult break-up last year, he found himself isolated and alone in New York City. Desperate, he put his phone number on a flier along with a simple message: "If anyone wants to talk about anything, call me." He posted copies all across the city, and waited. The response was overwhelming, with thousands of calls coming from across the US and around the world. Jeff and two collaborators then transcribed the conversations, text messages and voice mails, publishing them in Jeff, One Lonely Guy.

The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains (part I) | Empirical Zeal

DirkSonguer — 2012-07-05T11:01:18+00:00

One of the first fences in this color continuum came from an unlikely place – crayons. In 1917, the first crayons were imported into Japan, and they brought with them a way of dividing a seamless visual spread into neat, discrete chunks. There were different crayons for green (midori) and blue (ao), and children started to adopt these names. But the real change came during the Allied occupation of Japan after World War II, when new educational material started to circulate. In 1951, teaching guidelines for first grade teachers distinguished blue from green, and the word midori was shoehorned to fit this new purpose.

A Dutch Church’s Angel Is in Demand - NYTimes.com

DirkSonguer — 2012-04-02T15:01:01+00:00

’S HERTOGENBOSCH, the Netherlands — High on the cathedral in this trim Dutch town, amid a phalanx of stone statues of local noblemen, crusaders, saints and angels, one figure stands out. Smiling faintly, with lowered eyelids, one of the angels wears jeans, has a laptop bag slung over one shoulder and is chatting on a cellphone. The angel gets about 30 calls a day on the phone.

Meow Meow Meow | VICE

DirkSonguer — 2012-02-15T10:34:09+00:00

Cat cafés are huge in Japan right now. As the name suggests, these are coffee shops where cat lovers go to sip overpriced lattes and hang out with an adorable smoosh pile of kitties. In the past five years, exactly 79 such cafés have popped up all over Japan. What’s weird is that the café cats aren’t expensive pedigreed felines like Persians or those other ones with the funny bendy ears, they’re just the everyday mixed breeds you might find in the back lot of your local supermarket, cats who, in the immortal words of Brian Setzer, “slink down the alley, looking for a fight/Howling to the moonlight on a hot summer night.” Likewise, in the past few years, there’s been an explosion of photo books and DVDs featuring average-joe cats. If people are so fascinated by what are essentially domesticated alley cats, why don’t they just swoop one up from the legions of strays all over Japan and take them home? I’ll tell you why: because landlords in Japan are dicks.

Wie bei Internet Abstimmungen geschummelt wird | Trendspektor.de | Technik und Lifestyleblog

DirkSonguer — 2011-11-29T11:06:54+00:00

Egal ob Modelcontest, Wahl zum besten Design oder Summe X für den eigenen Verein. Das Internet ist voll von Abstimmungen bei denen, auf den ersten Blick, jeder die gleiche Chance hat zu gewinnen. Solle man meinen. Denn was bei online Gewinnspielen schon seit langer Zeit Realität ist, entwickelt sich zum Trendsport für gelangweilte Forenuser: “Votings riggen” (Abstimmungen manipulieren). Dabei muss es nicht einmal etwas zu Gewinnen geben, im Vordergrund steht der Spaß und das “We Win”-Gefühl. Besonders erfolgreich in der Wahlmanipulation ist ein kleine Gruppe die sich in der weltweit größten Pokerschule Pokerstrategy.com kennengelernt hat. Wir haben exklusiv einen Insider für euch interviewet.

Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986 | Brain Pickings

DirkSonguer — 2011-11-25T06:17:44+00:00

This fascinating PBS documentary, titled The Entrepreneurs and filmed in 1986, offers a rare glimpse of Jobs’ original vision with NeXT, from his aspirations for higher education and simulated learning environments to his decision-making process on price point and product features to his approach to company culture and motivational morale.

STANFORD Magazine: July/August 2011 > Features > Daniel Lee

DirkSonguer — 2011-08-23T13:40:32+00:00

In Seoul, it was hard for Lee to walk down the street without being mobbed. To Koreans, he was known as Tablo, a chart-topping rapper who was also married to one of the country's most prominent movie stars. Until recently, he had been one of Korea's biggest celebrities. Now his career was in tatters, he'd parted ways with his record label, and his family was receiving death threats.

A Billion Dollars Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? Basic Human Decency | TechCrunch

DirkSonguer — 2011-08-03T21:57:54+00:00

Who is the conscience of the global brain? | Trends in the Living Networks

DirkSonguer — 2011-06-12T19:26:59+00:00

It was a fascinating conversation, particularly given the participation of Anonymous, though as he noted, no one person can truly speak for a distributed network. One of the things that the anonymous hacker said is that Anonymous is “the conscience of the Internet”. Given I have delved deep into the concept of the global brain, this struck me as a fascinating metaphor.

ProjectPerko: Here There Be Monsters

DirkSonguer — 2011-05-22T20:42:33+00:00

Monsters and monster stories suit the culture that creates them. You can see this pretty easily by looking at the ancient monsters that ancient cultures created.

The Boxxy Story: The Rise of Boxxy

DirkSonguer — 2011-03-10T09:49:54+00:00

It's Friday January 16th. On Youtube, the user 'boxxybabee', has 21,800 subscribers, 1.4 million video views and over 38,000 comments on her videos and channel, yet she only signed up 8 days ago, and has only 3 videos. Many people were, and are confused. How did this happen? By documenting what I personally saw, I will show you.

Wikileaks Exposes Internet's Dissent Tax, not Nerd Supremacy - Zeynep Tufekci - Technology - The Atlantic

DirkSonguer — 2010-12-29T10:22:09+00:00

Jaron Lanier's recent lengthy essay about Wikileaks is not really about Wikileaks; thus, it is unsurprising that he misses the central lesson of this affair. From the beginning, he makes the fundamental conceptual mistake of conflating individual human beings and powerful institutions, like governments and corporations; he then takes off on a dystopic vision of a world dominated by an imagined "nerd supremacist" ethic of complete transparency, collapse of private life, and unrestricted information flow, in which humanity is the slave of the machine.

RIP!: A remix manifesto

DirkSonguer — 2010-12-16T06:16:49+00:00

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film's central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.

russell davies: what I meant to say at lift - part one - sharing, physicality, mixtapes and newspapers

DirkSonguer — 2010-06-28T19:19:26+00:00

My talk at Lift seemed to go down quite well but I remember leaving the stage thinking of all the things I'd meant to say; my own fault for trying to cram an hour of stuff into 20 minutes. So I thought I'd try and elaborate on some of it here. This post is what I meant to say while standing in front of this picture of one of Roo and Leila's tapes.

Pixar's Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation

DirkSonguer — 2009-08-10T08:31:49+00:00

This week The McKinsey Quaterly asks: what does stimulating the creativity of animators have in common with developing new product ideas or technology breakthroughs? Apparently, a lot.

SCEEN magazine

DirkSonguer — 2009-02-09T08:09:08+00:00

DIGITAL ARTS AND CULTURE BETWEEN POP AND SUB, HIGH AND LOW, ON AND OFF

Nothing For Ungood

DirkSonguer — 2009-01-22T13:53:55+00:00

Just a site poking a little fun at life in Germany from an American perspective. By the way, we love Germany. It is pretty awesome. Except for the weather.

Pdf-Mags.com

DirkSonguer — 2009-01-09T14:03:44+00:00

Here you find links and information about nearly 175 free PDF mags from all over the world with main focus on art, design, illustration and culture...

C/O Berlin . International Forum For Visual Dialogues

DirkSonguer — 2009-01-04T17:33:19+00:00

C/O Berlin ist ein Labor, in dem Grenzen über einzelne gestalterische Disziplinen hinaus experimentell ausgelotet werden. Das kreative, künstlerische Leben wird besonders anhand der renommierten Fotografieausstellungen sichtbar, die C/O Berlin konzipiert und koordiniert – international, vielseitig, aktuell. Getragen wird C/O Berlin von Neugier, Leidenschaft und Professionalität. Der Name C/O Berlin steht für Initiative und Flexibilität. Das „Care of“ als postalische Abkürzung für Umtriebige und örtlich ungebundene, international Agierende wird ergänzt durch das „Taking care of“ des privaten Engagements. C/O Berlin handelt dort, wo andere Einrichtungen noch diskutieren, und setzt Zeichen für neue Wege im Kulturbereich.

The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com

DirkSonguer — 2008-12-23T14:23:44+00:00

The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.

Anecdote - Whitepapers - Building a collaborative workplace

DirkSonguer — 2008-12-12T06:02:22+00:00

This paper has three parts. We start by brieﬂy exploring what we mean by collaboration and why organisations and individuals should build their collaboration capability. Then, based on that understanding, we lay out a series of steps for developing a collaboration capability. We ﬁnish the paper with a simple test of your current collaboration capability.

PostSecret

DirkSonguer — 2008-12-01T16:44:06+00:00

DIGITAL YOUTH RESEARCH | Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media

DirkSonguer — 2008-11-23T00:19:04+00:00

The project has three general objectives. The first objective is to describe kids as active innovators using digital media rather than as passive consumers of popular culture or academic knowledge. The second objective is to think about the implications of kids' innovative cultures for schools and higher education and to engage in a dialogue with educational planners. The third objective is to advise software designers about how to use kids' innovative approaches to knowledge and learning in building better software. This project will address these objectives through ethnographic research in both local neighborhoods in Northern and Southern California, and in virtual places and networks such as online games, blogs, messaging, and online interest groups. Our research sites focus on learning and cultural production outside of schools: in homes, neighborhoods, after-school, and in recreational settings.

Shorpy Photo Archive | History in HD

DirkSonguer — 2008-11-16T14:52:28+00:00

Shorpy.com | History in HD is a vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.

WNYC - Radiolab

DirkSonguer — 2008-11-11T10:11:06+00:00

WNYC 93.9 FM and AM 820 are New York's flagship public radio stations, broadcasting the finest programs from National Public Radio and Public Radio International, as well as a wide range of award-winning local programming.