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The word technocrat can also refer to an advocate of a form of government in which experts preside. The notion of a technocracy remains mostly hypothetical, though some nations have been considered as such in the sense of being governed primarily by technical experts. Historian Walter A. McDougall argued that the Soviet Union was the…
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Marshall Alexander – Paper Engineer, Paper Links
Marshall Alexander – Paper Engineer, Paper Links Marshall Alexander has curated a list of papercraft artists, blogs, and templates (platforms)!
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Backflip Studios is launching the free-to-play game DragonVale today, which represents the pioneering game studio’s latest efforts to raise the stakes in the iPhone game market. And the mobile game studio will use its casual titles to draw more users to this type of deeper mobile gaming experience. We’ve monitored Backflip’s progress over the years,…
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In this blog post, Flurry focuses on how mobile devices have severely altered the shape and flow of revenue in the multi-billion dollar portable game category. Portable gaming, played primarily on Nintendo DS and Sony PSP devices, has been dominated by these two companies for over two decades. In this model, at retail, consumers pay…
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joelaz: “The days of paying $25, or more, for a cartridge at a retail store may soon end,” says Flurry. Bad news for Nintendo & Sony, but great news for hot mobile games companies like the one I work for, Backflip Studios. Backflip is a small, 30-person, highly profitable company with over 150 million downloads,…
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joelaz: “The days of paying $25, or more, for a cartridge at a retail store may soon end,” says Flurry. Bad news for Nintendo & Sony, but great news for hot mobile games companies like the one I work for, Backflip Studios. Backflip is a small, 30-person, highly profitable company with over 150 million downloads,…
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wilwheaton: THIS. So much THIS. I ended up using AdBlock to completely eliminate the elements on the right side, and I never, ever, click on Activity. I’m not sure what Twitter is trying to accomplish, but I think the company is really screwing up by getting away from the simplicity that captured all of our…
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thenearsightedmonkey: During spring semester 2012 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Lynda Barry will be teaching a semester-long writing and picture making class using her favorite book on how to make comics by one her favorite cartoonists: Ivan Brunetti’s “Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice” Ivan Brunetti will visit Barry’s class and also give a public presentation about…
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Young people who move to an apartment or get a house for the first time don’t subscribe to any MVPD (multichannel video programming distributor) and they just… get their network programming from Hulu and they get Netflix… As an industry where people pay between $70 and $92 a month, that’s a lot of money to…
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It’s a win-win for Levine, in every way: The more money collectors come to pay for her precious bronzes, the better those works will come to stand for our abandonment of the true principles behind the original “Fountain”. The differences between her two versions point to Duchamp’s original embrace of swappable industrial objects, but those…