December 2010
http://www.dazeddigital.com//music/article/9242/1/dazed-digitals-epic-end-of-year-playlist
“My only regret in life is that I did not drink more champagne.”
– John Maynard Keynes
Yury Milner says artificial intelligence to transform web: “I think that in 10 years if you ask a question on a social network and you get an answer you will not know if a computer or a person has answered you… When you receive a question, you will not know if it has been asked by a person or an artificial intelligence. And by answering you help the computer create an algorithm.”...
“The eBay community is essentially a very large retailing organization employing more than 700,000 people who say they make their primary or secondary living selling on eBay. If they were traditional employees, eBay would be the second largest private employer in the United States.”
Sharp Drop in iPad Magazine Sales →
“…the larger issue is the publishing industry’s insistence on using new platforms like the iPad to ape antiquated models like print, when it could be using them to develop entirely new ones.” via alexeiandpartners via @flytip
“If the Internet was walking around in public, it would look and act a lot like...”
– Bruce Sterling, http://bit.ly/gtSC1v
Tim Wu's 'The Master Switch' →
‘History shows a typical progression of information technologies from somebody’s hobby to somebody’s industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel — from open to closed system. Eventually, entrepreneurs or regulators smash apart the closed system, and the cycle begins...
The State of the Blogosphere 2010 →
via @briansolis: “2011 is the year of information curation and the dawn of the curator… networks and services that cater to the role of the curator will emerge, with several already leading the way. Storify, Curated.by, Pearltrees, Scoop.it, and Paper.li are becoming the coveted services of choice amongst curators as they not only enable the repackaging and dissemination of information, they do so...
Peak Globalization? →
Bruce Nussbaum in the Harvard Business Review: “The centrifugal forces drawing nations toward globalization are giving way to centripetal forces pulling them away from it. Looking forward toward the next decade and beyond, we are seeing countries increasingly prize sovereignty over multilateralism, national interests over international cooperation, and local constituencies over global...
http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/winter2010 →
Digital creativity on show this Sunday-Monday at my alma mater, ITP
