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Flickr has been a magnificent shining example of the web done right, but it is in an inevitable downward spiral. There are some good people still left there, but they are in the minority and I fear that they cannot fight off the douchtastic consultants of growth-hacking that have been called in to save the…
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brofisting: pi-ratical: I am really, extremely, amazingly excited to announce the release of my new Hello Pronoun stickers! I posted about these on twitter last night, but I can finally talk about them at length a bit more here. The stickers read “Hello, address me as:_________, Please use: ________”, allowing you to declare your name…
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Ars Asks: What video games will still be widely played in 100 years? [feedly]
Ars Asks: What video games will still be widely played in 100 years? Paramount / Memory Alpha In today’s inter-holiday news doldrums, the Ars IRC channel has descended into a deep debate over the kind of question that seems perfectly suited for a late-night dorm room bull session. It’s a question that seems simple on…
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Call for the post of Artistic Director, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial [feedly]
Call for the post of Artistic Director, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial [feedly] Call for the post of Artistic Director, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Shared by Bruce Sterling who has annotated in triple parens and asterisks) *May heaven help the good people of Spain in 2014. *I don’t want this…
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It wasn’t a coincidence that, just as Design Observer was hitting its stride, we started to see annual design issues of business magazines, an enhanced cultural literacy about design and designers, and a massive upgrade in the quality of design journalism. How Design Observer Founder William Drenttel Changed the Conversation » Gizmodo (via thisistheverge)
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Predicting 2014
Predicting 2014 brucesterling: From 1964, in the New York Times August 16, 1964 Visit to the World’s Fair of 2014 By ISAAC ASIMOV The New York World’s Fair of 1964 is dedicated to “Peace Through Understanding.” Its glimpses of the world of tomorrow rule out thermonuclear warfare. And why not? If a thermonuclear war…
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The video game industry was, [Chris Crawford in 1992] proclaimed, in the business of recycling tired ideas that were dressed in ever-prettier clothing. The great plains of the medium’s unexplored territory were left unexplored. http://kotaku.com/30-years-later-one-mans-still-trying-to-fix-video-gam-1490377821 sounds familiar… (via notgames)
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Games are bigger, splashier and more thorough, but they have made no progress on the fundamentals. It’s like watching the evolution of sailing ships: they grew bigger, faster, sleeker, but nobody had an inkling to put an engine in one of them. Chris Crawfordhttp://kotaku.com/30-years-later-one-mans-still-trying-to-fix-video-gam-1490377821 (via notgames)