February 2010
15 posts
“I remember one patient who came in and said she needed to reduce her dosage,” he...”
– [Depression’s Upside - NYTimes.com]
(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28depression-t.html?pagewanted=all)
“In a California gourmet market, Professor Iyengar and her research assistants...”
– [Shortcuts - The Paralyzing Problem of Too Many Choices - NYTimes.com]
(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/your-money/27shortcuts.html)
Children exist so we can photograph them and put... →
Increasingly, personal technology seems like a delivery device for a lifestyle, a tacit prescription of how to live in the Internet’s symbolic order. Study something like the iPad closely enough, and it seems to set a course for how we’re now to use words and images for business and pleasure. Maybe it shouldn’t be surprising in shaky economic times that the highest calling for the heaps of digital...
“But it was only after Reagan and his GOP successor, George H.W. Bush, left...”
– [American Discontent]
(http://bit.ly/9ackpf)
NYT on the rise of Self-Branding
What distinguishes personal branding from other self-cultivation is its emphasis on reputation over talent, on “explicit self- packaging,” as the scholars Daniel Lair, Katie Sullivan and George Cheney have observed: “Here, success is not determined by individuals’ internal sets of skills, motivations, and interests but, rather, by how effectively they are arranged, crystallized, and labeled.”...
“Google employs hundreds of people around the world to sit at their home computer...”
– How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
http://bit.ly/a8yYSD
NYTimes: Forecasting a Snowfall: The Bigger the...
“And in a failing economic climate where people can go online and get instant weather gratification, they’ve got to do something.” http://s.nyt.com/u/Bkw
Everybody knows the public pay phone is dying, but nobody inclined to watch this one would believe it. It sits across the street from Queens Criminal Court, on a patch of sidewalk facing Fast & Fresh Supermarket Deli & Grocery. In the age of the iPhone and the BlackBerry, in a city where cellphones are cheaper and more plentiful than toasters, the pay phone outside Fast & Fresh is...
on ebooks
three flaws with ebooks (kindle ebooks.) the first is obvious, too hard to share. next, no affordance for chapter length, only book length, so the reader has difficulty knowing what they can consume in a fixed time period. lastly, something is lost when the default font is the same for every book.
brad stone writes with anecdotes around pricing: http://nyti.ms/chntlw
NYT: In Brooklyn Bridge Park, a Study of the Fight... →
The struggle to pay for Brooklyn Bridge Park echoes similar problems around the country in creating urban parkland in a postindustrial age when open space must often be carved, at great cost, from derelict manufacturing zones, military installations or rail yards. Governments no longer have the fiscal or political muscle to finance the projects alone, and the involvement of private donors or...
DOH! Don't be that guy →
Consider this two-part law of how stuff ends up in your inbox:
(1) There are people out there who have never seen some moldering viral video, say “JK Wedding Entrance Dance.” They were not among the video’s 41 million-plus YouTube viewers, they did not see it replayed infinitely on the morning shows, they did not visit the couple’s hyped Web site, they missed the “Divorce Entrance” spinoff, and...
Easy = True - The Boston Globe →
when a personal questionnaire is presented in a less legible font, people tend to answer it less honestly than if it is written in a more legible one
“When we examined all the leftover spaces in San Francisco, New York, New...”
– Space: It’s Still a Frontier - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com