October 2009
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“Much has been made of the discardability of Internet personas; if we don’t...”
– “What sociologist Erving Goffman could tell us about social networking and Internet identity,” Andy Oram, O’Reilly Radar
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“If I tell my Facebook friends about your brand, it’s not because I like...”
– Mike Arauz
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“The autumn blast/………
Blows along the stones/
On Mount Asama....”
– “There can be few literary works in any language as poetic as airline menus,” writes Alain de Botton in The Independent
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Genchi Genbutsu
Any information about a process will be simplified and abstracted from its context when reported. Under the Japanese Genchi Genbutsu philosophy of management, rather than simply hear or read about a problem and make a suggestion for improvement, one should actually go to its direct location and experience the situation first hand.
The Economist/ Wiki
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“We tend to ignore the horrible, especially if it is not an integral part of our...”
– Kenya Hara On Japanese Aesthetics via iaintait
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“Marketing has so saturated culture —with people adopting the discourse of...”
– Marginal Utility on culture jamming.
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Global Impositioning Systems: Is GPS technology... →
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“Wind in my hair,” Frakkur
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Why snark works
Because it’s a subliminal argument. Or an aspirational one. Or at least flippancy is. Or, well, wait:
Imagine a spectrum lying across the ways we communicate. One end represents being flippant, funny, referential, snarky, and concise—zingers and one-liners and sarcasm. The other end represents being earnest, thorough, measured, charitable, and serious. The difference between these things...
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“While it’s tempting to call them ‘baristi’ because of the Italian roots, the...”
– Fake AP Stylebook (via nerdshares)
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Driving with Penguins
A man was driving down the road with twenty penguins in the back seat. The police stop him and say that he can’t drive around with the penguins in the car and should take them to the zoo. The man agrees and drives off.
The next day the same man is driving down the road with the twenty penguins in the back again. He is stopped by the same police officer who says, “Hey! I though I told you to take...
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“It wasn’t long ago that buying a purely digital piece of music — downloading a...”
– The £10,000 playlist by Phil Gyford
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes
After great pain, a formal feeling comes — The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs — The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round — Of Ground, or Air, or Ought — A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone — This is the Hour of Lead — Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing...
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“The Internet is mostly unreadable not because of the way it is written, but...”
– SO WHAT EXACTLY IS CONCEPTUAL WRITING?: an interview with Kenneth Goldsmith - BOMBLog (via britticisms)
383. Framing a poster does not make it valuable.
(via rulesformyunbornson)
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Tokyo Art Beat →
Tokyo Art Beat is Tokyo’s art & design events calendar.
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McKinsey debate: Will people pay for content... →
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“Mr. Berners-Lee smiled and admitted he might make one change — a small one. He...”
– “The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing,” New York Times (via derrinyet)
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Design*Sponge Tokyo design guide →
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“In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves...”
– Eric Hoffer
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WatchHand from Above on Vimeo (via Vimeo) via clusterflock, Russell Davies
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“The flaw of synchronous communication has been repackaged as the boon of...”
– “The eternal conference call,” Nicholas Carr.
I think I am scared of Wave. I will investigate it, naturally, but possibly opt out, like I did with IM and Skype.
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“A social phobia common in Japan but almost nonexistent in the West is taijin...”
– The Phobia List (via ohbethany)