“I believe that…
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“I believe that data visualization can not only help us understand today’s cities, but that it also has the potential to help us shape the city of the future.”
| — | Christian Marc Schmidt. Watch the video athttp://creativemornings.com/talks/christian-marc-schmidt/1 |
Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice
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Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.
“Creativity isn…
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“Creativity isn’t an occupation. It’s a preoccupation.”
— Sir John Hegarty.
Storytelling Ads May Be Journalism’s New Peril
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Storytelling Ads May Be Journalism’s New Peril
David Carr:
…Twenty years ago, most people got access to the Web through Internet service providers like Prodigy and CompuServe, which had a version of advertising but not the banners we have come to know and hate. In October 1994, HotWired, the digital version of Wired magazine, decided to create ads for the issue and AT&T opted in. The ad invited people to click through — and they did, at the astounding rate of 44 percent versus the 0.1 percent rate that is now common. Users were then transported to a list of museums around the world to show that the Web could take you places.
At the time it was unique, but as time went on the approach became ubiquitous and cheesy.
“We were proud of that ad,” said [one of the original banner ad designers,] Mr. McCambley. “But everything starts out good until we end up making it bad.”
“GTA V has litt…
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“GTA V has little room for women except to portray them as strippers, prostitutes, long-suffering wives, humorless girlfriends and goofy, new-age feminists we’re meant to laugh at. Characters constantly spout lines that glorify male sexuality while demeaning women, and the billboards and radio stations of the world reinforce this misogyny, with ads that equate manhood with sleek sports cars while encouraging women to purchase a fragrance that will make them “smell like a bitch.” Yes, these are exaggerations of misogynistic undercurrents in our own society, but not satirical ones. With nothing in the narrative to underscore how insane and wrong this is, all the game does is reinforce and celebrate sexism. The beauty of cruising in the sun-kissed Los Santos hills while listening to “Higher Love” by Steve Winwood turns sour really quick when a voice comes on the radio that talks about using a woman as a urinal.”
— Carolyn Petit, Gamespot review of GTA V (via femfreq)
Interaction Cost: Definition
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The interaction cost is the sum of efforts — mental and physical — that the users must deploy in interacting with a site in order to reach their goals.
Ideally, we’d like users to go to a site and find the answer they’re looking for right there, in front of their eyes. That would mean zero…
If all digital data were stored on punch cards, how big would Google’s data warehouse be?”
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journo-geekery:
Asked by James Zetlen of xckd’s “What If”, which resulted in: Google’s Datacenters on Punch Cards
Research team develops tattoo-like skin thermometer patch
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Research team develops tattoo-like skin thermometer patch
(Phys.org) â A diverse team of researchers from the U.S., China, and Singapore has created a patch that when glued to the skin can be used as a thermometerâcontinuously measuring skin temperature. In their paper published in the journal Nature Materials, the team describes how the patch is made and …
LA/CreativeMornings
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creativemorningslosangeles:
LA/CreativeMornings September 2013: Two Bit Circus
Join us on Friday, September 27, 2013 at The Brewery in downtown LA for LA/CreativeMornings with Two Bit Circus.
Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman will wow us with stories about how they connect with their audiences through various creative experiments. Including, the awesome Musical Robot Class you see here. RSVP opens on Monday, September 23rd at 11am.
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