Beat the Press: The Problem of Rising Wages in China
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Double Grip, Speed of Use
Inside Nathan Myhrvold's Mysterious New Idea Machine
"They see the future as behind them and the past ahead of them"
Farecast - Airfare Predictions, Find Cheap Airline Tickets, in beta, hope they add New York soon...
Lunch over IP: TEDtalks: The other Al Gore speech, and what Tony Robbins really told him
LIFE24 a photo map of the world in the past 24 hours.
FON: WiFi everywhere! Been ignoring this company for a while now, but it looks like they are quite serious about building a worldwide mesh of WiFi access to challenge the mobile telephony companies. Word on the street is that another big time player is going to be entering this battle as well, and that's enough to make me pay attention. (Hint, you can probably figure out the company by skowering the FON site). As for the longer term connectivity issues, at least in the US, watch out for what happens with the large chunks of bandwidth that got allocated for HD broadcasting...
Turning Down the Global Thermostat | Metropolis Magazine | October 2003, An interview with Edward Mazria, the architect who blames global warming on architecture.
Data Mining: Mapping The Blogosphere: LiveJournal
Social Networking: Five Sites You Need to Know - Unit Structures :: Fred Stutzman
WSJ.com - Zen and the Art of Classified Advertising
The National Entertainment State, 2006, maps the properties of the big 6 media firms in the US. Nice utility, although I really wish it gave some sense of markets share, and showed any relevant indies (assuming they exist, which I think they must in at least some of those industries).
Is the NSA spying on U.S. Internet traffic? | Salon News
An open letter to Frank Gehry. By Jonathan Lethem I've never been particularly opposed to the Atlantic Yards, but Lethem makes a good case. The accompanying slide show though is a pretty mixed bag in the back up it provides. Still if it's going to be a Gehry project, shouldn't it at least be a good Gehry project?
Daring Fireball: Interoperability and DRM Are Mutually Exclusive
Behind the Glass Curtain | Metropolis Magazine on the Google HQ
The In-Car Camera Never Blinks (but Viewers Flinch) aka the New York Times does Ballard...
Street Name Game Has a Few Rules - Los Angeles Times
Open the Future: Twelve Things Journalists Need To Know to be Good Futurist/Foresight Reporters and B Sterling's reaction.
Lunch over IP: Aula2006: Everyware, personal velocity, and the open-source car
Websites as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet
"When we say we want all the worlds video, we really do want all the worlds video."
Nature Peer Review Trial: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
collision detection: Graduating into a recession? It'll wreck your earnings for life, say economists
photographs of residents in their flats in hong kong's oldest public housing estate:
100 rooms,
each 100 square feet in size.
The English Ideology and WIRED Magazine by Mark Stahlman
AfriGadget, not quite sure if this is exciting or repulsive...
Commentary - The Changing Game of Leadership: Management by Design
Purse Lip Square Jaw: Networked things and the old/new objectivism
Design Observer: writings about design & culture: The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation? Micheal Bierut on INside Innovation and designing for free.
Mass Natural, Michael Pollen on Wal-Mart going organic
: weblog: Companies Can Safely Ignore Me, wow this guy is bitter, bitter but interesting. My first piece of advice to him would be to make the title of his webpages something other than "", cause how are people supposed to remember his greatness if they can't even pronounce the name of his site...
This Blog Sits at the: Who Killed the Cool Hunter?
DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism By Jaron Lanier Lanier is always worth reading, and as usual his prose/rant is half insightful and half constipated...
We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar