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emergentfutures: Rocket Internet and Roland Berger plan ‘super incubator’ (updated) Both companies will each hold 50 percent of the incubator, Roland Berger’s CEO Charles-Edouard Bouée told German Manager Magazin. “Our company will work like a factory and will produce one company with a digital business model after another,” he explains. That sounds pretty much like what…
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Metahaven is a new kind of graphic design team. This self-styled ‘design think tank’ is such a departure from conventional forms of practice that it is unlikely many designers have heard of them yet, particularly outside the Netherlands. Nor do they go out of their way to provide colleagues with entry points into their concerns…
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The Art of Storytelling in Gaming by Kamal Sinclair for the Sundance Institute
The Art of Storytelling in Gaming by Kamal Sinclair for the Sundance Institute h/t to Tracy Fullerton
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code drawings 2014 end
code drawings 2014 end with this post. this post is a marker for the web catalog.
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Lie No. 1 [The Lies that are told to Neo in the Matrix]
Lie No. 1 [The Lies that are told to Neo in the Matrix] Speculative re-thinking of SciFi…
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econsociology: The original email that started Occupy Wall Street On September 17, 2011 thousands of women and men gathered in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City’s Wall Street financial district. It was a day when Occupy Wall Street (#OccupyWallStreet) movement was publicly born, garadually receiving global attention and spawning the grassroots protests against social and economic inequality all over…
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emergentfutures: Jailbreaking your cat litter: welcome to the Internet of Feudal Things mostlysignssomeportents: Jorge loves his Catgenie automated cat-litter tray, but doesn’t love spending $350/year on “Sanisolution” (perfumed gunk that makes the litter stick to his cats’ feet and gets tracked all over his apartment), but he discovered that the manufacturer uses DRM to stop…
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dreamingdigitalplay: we understand videogames, historically, as the aesthetic form of rationalization ~ we therefore argue that any engagement with videogames as a medium must be conscious of the context of their production in a capitalist system ~ we know that any analysis of videogames and their place within global capitalism must move beyond contexts of…
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chocolate as cultural practice. Served hot, melted in milk, with mild cheese for melting and with hard corn meal biscuits for dunking. As we do in Colombia.
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From Gongkai to Open Source « bunnie’s blog
From Gongkai to Open Source « bunnie’s blog About a year and a half ago, I wrote about a $12 “Gongkai” cell phone (pictured above) that I stumbled across in the markets of Shenzhen, China. My most striking impression was that Chinese entrepreneurs had relatively unfettered access to cutting-edge technology, enabling start-ups to innovate while…