Shockingly, neither Sam Champion, Dallas Raines, nor Storm Field take first place. From The Morning News (via Gawker).
I’m still wrestling with this article by Jaron Lanier, but thought I would go ahead and post the link until I’m able to articulate my thoughts. I’m very ambivalent about much of what he has to say. There are plenty of valid points concerning the dangers of group-think and ‘hive mind’ mentalities, but he also [...]
I went to an IXDA-sponsored talk with Peter Morville promoting his book Ambient Findability last night. Peter didn’t lead with any opening remarks and immediately opened the floor to questions instead. So the discussion started out a little slowly, but quickly picked up steam. Things really began to get interesting as talk around Web 2.0 [...]
The Internet is actually a layered suite of networks and protocols, each of which perform separate functions. The application layer (a web page, an email, etc.) is responsible for the content of a message transmitted over the Internet. Beneath the application layer are transport and network layers that handle error correction and addressing, respectively. The [...]
Shaping Things, Bruce Sterling’s volume for the MIT Mediawork series, is a sustainability manifesto at heart. It is also equal parts (anti-) futurist prognosis, extended thought experiment, and a gauntlet flung down before contemporary design practices. Not bad for a “pamphlet†of less than 150 pages.