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Idea #584211441

Sunday, May 9th, 2010 at 11:27 am
creativity not only involves coming up with something new, but also with shutting down the brain’s habitual response, or letting go of conventional solutions
— [The Mind Research Network and Charting Creativity - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/books/08creative.html?pagewanted=all

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Idea #575965540

Thursday, May 6th, 2010 at 7:29 am

“It’s just shocking that kids have access to all these things on the Internet and we don’t even know about it,” Mr. Stern said. “And it’s disturbing that what goes on there will influence how somebody behaves. How do you block it? How do you monitor it?” http://nyti.ms/aeWPNr

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Idea #567270582

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 at 11:37 pm
For today’s teenagers and preteens, the give and take of friendship seems to be conducted increasingly in the abbreviated snatches of cellphone texts and instant messages, or through the very public forum of Facebook walls and MySpace bulletins.
— How Does Technology Affect Kids€™ Friendships? - http://nyti.ms/aa3tUA

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Idea #563370444

Saturday, May 1st, 2010 at 10:50 am
All of this led to the revelation that we’ve begun a new age of “communal computing.” The desktop revolution centered around empowering individuals: this new revolution will extend that empowerment to groups of people. The iPad was naturally passed around amongst the partygoers. Many people interacted with it during the evening, and I lost track of who had it at any given time. And therein lies a fundamental problem. My iPad has a lot of personal information on it: email, business documents, and financial data. When you pass it around, you’re giving everyone who touches it the opportunity to mess with your private life, whether intentionally or not.
— furbo.org · Communal computing

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Idea #560824591

Friday, April 30th, 2010 at 8:50 am
A small but vocal subculture has emerged on Twitter of grammar and taste vigilantes who spend their time policing other people’s tweets — celebrities and nobodies alike. These are people who build their own algorithms to sniff out Twitter messages that are distasteful to them — tweets with typos or flawed grammar, or written in ALLCAPS — and then send scolding notes to the offenders. They see themselves as the guardians of an emerging behavior code: Twetiquette.
— On the Twitter Patrol - NYTimes.com

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Idea #548598532

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Halfway through, I was mortified. I realized why the Tillman story has stayed in my gut. Dannie Tillman did what a nation full of high-paid, overblown journalists should have done. She went after the real story while the beautiful people on TV and the nerds with notepads broadcast and wrote morality plays. She got in the military’s face, in the government’s face. She didn’t let up. She was doing journalism while journalists were doing what we mostly do now — chase Web hits and take short cuts to higher profits. A housewife got the real story, or as much of it as anybody probably will. Professionals trained to do so gathered moss and wrote slop.
— Pat Tillman film a haunting blindside

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Idea #528513156

Saturday, April 17th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Progress may, for a time, intersect with one’s own personal ideology, and during that period one will become a gung-ho technological progressivist. But that’s just coincidence. In the end, progress doesn’t care about ideology. Those who think of themselves as great fans of progress, of technology’s inexorable march forward, will change their tune as soon as progress destroys something they care deeply about. “We love the things we love for what they are,” wrote Robert Frost. And when those things change we rage against the changes. Passion turns us all into primitivists.
— Nicholas Carr’s Blog - The iPad Luddites

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Idea #513409250

Sunday, April 11th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
In Park Slope, Brooklyn, for example, drivers looking for a parking spot are said to account for 45 percent of street traffic
— Parking-Spot Finding in New York Gets Digital Aid, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/nyregion/11critic.html

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Idea #497965389

Monday, April 5th, 2010 at 7:47 am

From The New York Times: Branding Comes Early in Filmmaking Process More writers and producers are cutting branding deals before the movie is cast or the script is fully shaped. Manufacturers can stipulate that a clothing label must be tried on “in a positive manner,” or candy or hamburgers have to be eaten “judiciously.” A liquor company might sponsor a film only if there is no underage drinking or if the bar where its product is served is chic rather than seedy. http://s.nyt.com/u/HKa

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Idea #495881347

Sunday, April 4th, 2010 at 11:38 am
The most popular corners to catch a yellow cab in Manhattan can now be pinpointed, at any hour of any day of the week, thanks to a record of 90 million actual taxi trips that have been silently tracked by the city.
— [Data Show Best Corners to Hail a Cab in New York - NYTimes.com] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/nyregion/03icab.html

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