I’d like to advance a hypothesis: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn’t connecting us as much as we think it is. It’s largely home to weak, artificial connections, what I call thin relationships.
During the subprime bubble, banks and brokers sold one another bad debt — debt that couldn’t be made good on. Today, “social” media is trading in low-quality connections — linkages that are unlikely to yield meaningful, lasting relationships.
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Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 5:55pm PDT by dan
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Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 5:51pm PDT by dan
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Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:36pm PDT by dan
This is a really great example of a graphic that calls you to action. Everyone that saw this couldn’t help but to try out what’s going on in the photo. Can YOU???
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Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:31pm PDT by dan
Alexa Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her background in the world of political communications has fueled her intellectual interest in the tensions between perception and reality.
Alexa Meade’s innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.
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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 2:25pm PST by dan
[sloanreview.mit.edu]
This is more for personal reference, I’d like to go back and read some of these articles in the future. Since it’s coming from MIT Sloan, these topics are viewed through the lens of management, but the content still looks pretty interesting. Nice to see how other professions / fields can use the principals of design to achieve better results.Design thinking — distinct from analytical thinking — has emerged as the premier organizational path not only to breakthrough innovation but, surprisingly, to high-performance collaboration, as well. “It’s not about the pretty,” says one design-thinking practitioner, “it’s about the productive.” In this special section of articles, interviews, illustrated cases and research findings, the Review explores how to put design thinking to work.
How to Become a Better Manager … By Thinking Like a Designer
Elegance By Design: The Art of Less
Usability for Evil
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Posted: March 9th, 2010, 2:04pm PST by dan
[whereismymilkfrom.com]
The UI is crap (you type the milk code into the skewed form on top of the milk carton), but the idea is cool. The milk at my office comes from Franklin, MA, not too far from Boston. Where is yours from?