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The Middle Ground Of Ethical Design.
Images source: Adaptive Design Association To be honest, discussions about ethics can be a downer, because you end up talking about what’s wrong and the positive stories set the ethical bar so high to instill a sense of defeat from … Continue reading
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Linkage for September 5, 2008
On security: Esther Dyson talks about How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security. First Noah reported getting spam in Facebook, now an application was launched to expose how a security hole could be exploited to turn Facebook accounts … Continue reading
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A Fork In the Browser Road
Image source: flickr Well, the internet is buzzing with the discussions and reviews of Google’s recently release browser, Chrome. Nick Carr has some good thoughts on the subject, his key take aways: “To Google, the browser has become a weak … Continue reading
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Linkage for August 29, 2008
1. Well, I guess I can say you heard it here first, the NY Times has a nice article, by Mary Jo Murphy, talking about the design of wind turbines and their recent ubiquity in eco-advertising. When it’s the NY … Continue reading
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Home Delivery At MOMA: Computational Architecture.
I’ve been to the Home Delivery show at MOMA twice on sunny weekends this summer. The show on prefabricated architecture is overall well curated. However, the true brilliance of the show is that they have full scale models of six … Continue reading
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How Ethical is Ethical?
Image source: LifeStraw Even though I haven’t posted much recently (sorry for that, especially when I got some nice links, Thanks Noah. Frontstudio.) I have been thinking a lot about the ethics of design. One post from Rob Walker’s murketing … Continue reading
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The New Break
Image source: flickr I’ve been busy helping organize a workshop, which means of course less time for blogging. But I’ve noticed that in the midst of long 3 hour planning sessions, we take breaks to check email. We also got … Continue reading
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Next Transformations: A Response To Transformations By Grant McCracken
Images source: flickr I finally got through Transformations, which has left me with lots of blogging ideas and a lens to look at world around me. The book is highly recommended, Grant McCracken is able to achieve the balance between … Continue reading
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Links for 25.07.08
What’s in my browser… List of movies based on Shakespeare, my favorites are the teen ones. Before Photoshop, there was hand drawn fashion illustration. Excellent post on why sneaker shopping has become a painful ordeal. Kim Deal (Pixies and Breeders) … Continue reading
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The Architecture Of Business Schools: Reflection Of A Society
“Bow down before the one you serve, you’re going to get what you deserve.” – Trent Renzor, Nine Inch Nails I recently went to a conference on location-based services hosted by Columbia University’s Business School. The conference panels had some … Continue reading
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