May 2009
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From Google Economy to Twitter Economy →
Umair Haque, who followed [Jeff] Jarvis, faced an even tougher, albeit partly self-inflicted challenge: explaining the new paradigm of “Constructive Capitalism” in 45 minutes. That’s like asking Marx to walk you through his Communist Manifesto in a Twitter chat.
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“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
– Orson Welles
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“If marketers (or their customers) understood biologists’ new calculations about...”
– John Tierney, “Message in What We Buy, but Nobody’s Listening”
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“Every machine is haunted by the ghost of the human intention that animates it.”
– The Voice of the Earth, Theodore Roszak
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Money: a substitute for social acceptance? →
Handling or even contemplating money can relieve both physical pain and the distress of social rejection, according to a study by Chinese and American psychologists. But remembering cash one has spent intensifies both types of hurt. The findings suggest that the mere thought of having money makes people feel physically stronger and less dependent on the approval of others to satisfy their...
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What Makes Us Happy? →
From The Atlantic, June 2009:
“Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age.”
Joshua Wolf Shenk, the first journalist...
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WatchQuimby The Mouse (via Vimeo) — a collaboration of Andrew Bird, Chris Ware and John Kuramoto
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