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Jobs | Ubiquitous
Jobs | Ubiquitous hautepop: emergentdigitalpractices: CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST We’re looking for a full-time creative technologist / coder for our Manchester office. You’ll need to be driven by experimentation and thrive on ‘never been done before’. Ideally you’d be literate in some of the following: C or C++, OOP, OpenGL and Augmented Reality. Have played with SDKs…
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The new norm is the virtual model. Everyone’s a contractor, working for themselves, whether you’re doing so as a pinion in a huge multinational or working a web start-up out of your dorm room. […] Not everyone is cut out for it. The people who will fit best in your new organization will be young…
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vellum: (via Become An Intellectual Property Donor And Your Ideas Will Live Forever – PSFK) why wait?
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humanrightswatch: Verdict in historic trial of US-backed Guatemalan dictator (1982-1983): Rios Montt found guilty of Genocide – This verdict is a reward for the sustained and determined efforts of Mayan communities for over 30 years! Former General Rios Montt was convicted of ordering the deaths of 1,771 Ixil Maya people during his time in office…
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Gordon Lewis-Kraus and David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd
stoweboyd: Lewis-Kraus responds in the New Yorker to a recent slander of David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd by Lee Siegel, and makes a case for the utility of Riesman’s ideas: Gordon Lewis-Kraus, Yelp and the Wisdom of ‘The Lonely Crowd’ David Riesman spent the first half of his career writing one of the most important books…
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Amazon.com: Profile For Jean J Bartik: Reviews
Amazon.com: Profile For Jean J Bartik: Reviews Jean Bartik was one of the first programmers of the Eniac. She was ignored by history until very late in her life. Her voice is found in this marginal space, in the online reviews of books on Amazon.com. She passed away in 2011. Her ghost now haunts the…
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Mike Jeffries is the Willie Wonka of the fashion industry. A quirky perfectionist and control freak, he guards his aspirational brands and his utopian chocolate factory with a highly effective zeal. Those who have worked with him tend to use the same words to describe him: driven, demanding, smart, intense, obsessive-compulsive, eccentric, flamboyant and, depending…
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Advertisers Are Now Tracking Your Behavior Across Various Devices
Advertisers Are Now Tracking Your Behavior Across Various Devices infoneer-pulse: infoneer-pulse: Think that your mobile browsing habits exist in a different world than the content and ads you view on your PC? Until recently, you’d have been correct, but now advertisers are coming up with ways to identify consumers across platforms in order to provide…
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The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. Michel Foucault, Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (via gloomy-planets)
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If you look back at what happens since that time there have been a lot of measures introduced to impose discipline. Take something as simple as raising tuition fees – it’s much more true in the US than elsewhere, but in the US tuition is now sky high – in part it selects things on…