The unthinkable scenario unfolded something like this: The ability to share content wouldn’t shrink, it would grow. Walled gardens would prove unpopular. Digital advertising would reduce inefficiencies, and therefore profits. Dislike of micropayments would prevent widespread use. People would resist being educated to act against their own desires. Old habits of advertisers and readers would…

Angry Birds is a so-called physics game, which suggests education, and also a puzzle in reverse, as you must destroy something by figuring out how its pieces come apart. Your tools are these birds — the victims of the theft, but also your cannon fodder. Each bird that is launched dies. Though there’s no blood,…

“In essence, we brainstormed the question, ‘What would we do if the goal was to aggressively cannibalize ourselves?’ ” What that meant more than anything else was forcing one of the nation’s oldest magazines to stop thinking of itself as a printed product. Separations between the digital and print staffs in both business and editorial…

*Disciplinary silos just kind of VAPORIZING there.Lady Gaga’s Polaroid gadgets, a closer look *Note that the headmounted photo-display glasses are vaporware. Everybody somehow thinks they can build these. Why? Lady Gaga, industrial design maven | Beyond The Beyond

*”My disciplinary silos… they’re… They’re MELTING!” Musica Globalista: Lez Zeppelin as German architecture and interior design critics | Beyond The Beyond

» The Background. A modernized set of standards for the web’s lingua franca, HTML, is currently underway. Once it’s finished, that will be HTML5. The web’s updated language that will include a ‘video’ tag that can be read by browsers directly, eliminating the need for slower plug-ins. But there are two competing standards for what…