A Condo Tower Grows in Brooklyn - washingtonpost.com, the national press catches a long brewing local story...
peterme.com :: Michael Pollan and John Mackey be sure to check their letters back and forth, quite interesting.
richardsona // Adam Richardson's Blog - Blog - Org Chart 2.0: Built for Systems Thinking, It's a touch heavy on the "new new" hyperbole, but a very valid question none the less.
Pruned: Super-Versailles, on the massive wall sized control room screens
Interviewing the man behind The Wire. - By Meghan O'Rourke - Slate Magazine
Howard Schultz concerned about Starbucks expansion, really interesting internal memo from the Starbucks CEO where he comes rather honestly face to face with the Starbucksification of his brand. It's easy to forget that at one point Starbucks actually made decent (and from what I understand at an earlier point even great) coffee. The question I keep wondering though is just what did Starbucks do with those thousands of La Marzoccas?
collision detection: Does the month of your birth affect your risk of mental illness?
Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing
AQ | Graphic Design | Articles: Wayfinding in Tokyo: Local Context and Direction Map Design
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Flickr: Erik Nitsche collection, a small set of images from my favorite modernist era (but too good to be called modernist) designer. I actually had a collection of nearly all his General Dynamics annual reports, which I long since left with a friend who hopefully still has them. Anyone know a good scanning service in NY, they are well worth documenting...
So this is ubiquitous computing « me63 / Matt Edgar
79 - East Germany Lives On - As A Tiny Carribean Island « strange maps
Sugar rush | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited "'Sugar is as dangerous as tobacco [and] should be classified as a hard drug, for it is harmful and addictive,' according to a recent article in the British Medical Journal."
The Old Guard Flexes Its Muscles (While It Still Can) - New York Times, on the Networks response to YouTube.
rodcorp: Monocle first impressions, pretty on point, Wallpaper meets the The Economist was actually the exact same hollywood pitch synopsis I was using. The first issue is uneven, but if the weaker points get ironed out, not accentuated as things move on this will be a great mag. The risk however is in the ads, which lean towards that high income wallpaper side of things, and the weaker articles have that bad writing for rich people sort of thing going on. Any slide toward that direction and the result is just another nauseous luxury lifestyle mag. The fact that they are opening news bureaus is a good sign they'll move in the right direction, so the odds are looking nice.
Chávez Threatens to Jail Price Control Violators - New York Times, hard to tell exactly what is happening down their from this distance, but the Times at least is painting a picture of a ghostly echo of the mistakes of 20th century communism and if the left is going to go anywhere they desperately need to learn from and not repeat those mistakes...
Hip-Hop Outlaw (Industry Version) - Samantha M. Shapiro - New York Times, Sam's an old friend, great writer and covering the DJ Drama drama for the NYTimes magazine.
The Ecstasy of Influence (Harpers.org) Jonathan Lethem in defense of plagiarism and against copyright.
Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Joel Johnson Returns...to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap - Gizmodo
Global counterfeit goods locations, list released
Do we *REALLY* want to aggregate all our social networks? | :Ben Metcalfe Blog
Hello, Christian Science Monitor readers! Flood of knockoff merchandise triggers a wider crackdown across US | csmonitor.com is well worth reading, and not because it somehow features a quote from your's truly...
The Real Problem For YouTube » Publishing 2.0 with some response from both me and the excellent Mike Migurski in the comments.
MOG looks like one of the more interesting of the social music sites, although some Pandora style radio functionality could really add to it..
RSOE HAVARIA Emergency and Disaster Information Service, crazy map of all the current "disasters" on the globe.
Daring Fireball: Reading Between the Lines of Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music', I'm starting to think that Job's offer to do away with DRM in the iTunes store is indeed a bluff, but people often bluff with pretty decent hands. I'm pretty sure Apple prefers their "FairPlay" tech lock over selling unprotected MP3 files, but they look great saying they are against DRM knowing that the big guns in the music industry will never call that bluff. And if they actually do, well Apple can handle it, they'd just rather not...
Apple - Thoughts on Music, Steve Jobs is credited with writing that, and he comes out strongly against DRM, very interesting.
Nas: the "Where Are They Now" remixes, with an insane and massive collection of old school MCs
At Davos, The Politicians Got Web 2.0 More Than The Business People. Not too surprising actually, democratic politics is a highly networked and in places highly distributed process. Big corporations on the other hand tend to have centralized hierarchies not all too different than say a 16th century monarchies...