November 2011
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“There is an enemy. There is an intelligent, active, malign force working against...”
– Do the Work
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October 2011
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“We are living in a fake world… But we find reality in this fake world.”
– Haruki Murakami (via theparisreview)
Think something new each day.
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Nerd York City: Why Bloomberg Wants A NYC Tech... →
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration has been vocal about their desire to bring a world-class applied science school to New York City. The media-titan-turned-mayor is accepting proposals for an applied science campus to be built on city land; submissions are due on Friday, October 28. A who’s-who of local and national names are hoping NYC will give them the...
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“Ambition is a state of permanent dissatisfaction with the present.”
– Emanuel Derman | PhD Theoretical Physics | Quant
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Stanford+NYC: Googler: NYC Needs Stanford and... →
stanfordnyc:
Serge Kassardjian (picture above in NYC) works at Google as a Strategic Partner Development in Mobile Commerce.
New York City is in a unique situation right now. It’s changing.
Several industries are core to New York: media, financial services, advertising, fashion, sports…
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'Occupy' Now a Banned Search Term in China -... →
According to UC Berkeley publication China Digital Times, Sina Weibo, China’s hyper-popular microblogging site, is now banning any and all search keywords that could theoretically be associated with OWS. “A long list of banned keywords on Sina Weibo’s search function has been uncovered and tested by the CDT team yesterday,” writes Sandra Hernandez. “All the listed phrases...
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If Professors Stop Lecturing, Will Students Stop... →
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You might think that students taking classes with some of the world’s most prestigious academics wouldn’t spend lecture time checking their Facebook profiles. But it turns out that Harvard students have a pretty tough time disconnecting from the web. Harvard Crimson staff writer Hemi H. Gandhi writes that Facebook use in Harvard classes “has become so ubiquitous that no one even...
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WatchDigital Graffiti Wall
An alternative means of production is developed for an iconic urban art-form.
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Data Visualization Projects
Visualizations from Social Network and Behavioral Research at the Christakis Lab (Harvard University)
Nicholas Felton’s (Feltron) Wine project
Visualization: Does Twitter Make Our Politics Worse?
Cancer Visualization
Art Under the Microscope
Jonathan Zawada: Data as Landscape Portraits
Social Networking’s Newest Friend: Genomics
Nike: Dynamic Run Painting
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Americans Don't Care About Climate Change | And... →
…the full force of the free market is lining up behind renewable energy without the government’s help. Business incubators focused on solar and clean tech are springing up. Annual investment in clean tech in North America, Europe, Israel, India, and China grew from about $500 million in 2001 to more than $8.4 billion in 2008.
It’s deeply disturbing that more Americans don’t believe in...
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SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY | DATA PROCESSING | and VALUING...
The only information that is of value in a financial market is information that other people don’t have. Herbert Simon | Economist | Nobel Laureate 1978
Has the communicative and technological power of social networks modified this statement? Might a better way to say this be, the only information that is of value in a financial market is information that has been interpreted differently...
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Brooklyn Beta | A Really Good, Really Cool Idea
Brooklyn Beta is a small, friendly web conference aimed at the “work hard and be nice to people” crowd. Last year, our first year, we had a simple message. “Make something you love.” We think the more people who work on their own ideas, the better place the Web and the world will be.
This year, 2011, that message is our foundation. We hope to not only inspire you to work on your own ideas,...
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“A few times during his presidency, Obama admitted, he had written a personal...”
– President Obama wrote checks to struggling Americans, according to Washington Post book - The Washington Post (via brooklynmutt)
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“History is not linear.”
– Joseph Nye in his TED Talk on global power shifts
And so our lives are not either.
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Dropbox Confirms $250 Million Investment →
“Our goal has always been to build a service that hundreds of millions of people would love and trust,” Mr. Houston, the chief executive of Dropbox, said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to have such world-class investors joining forces with us.”
The world’s most diverse economy continues expanding in the markets that will drive future global growth.
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Moore's x Koomey's = Stanford in NYC
“We are going to make large, large investments in technology to make this work,” he said. “The good news is that technology has gotten to a price where it’s reasonably affordable. We can easily run 10 full-bandwidth high-definition streams between the two campuses simultaneously – at easily affordable prices. We’ll be able to do some things and really try to take...
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“New times call for new thinking… looking to the past is no way to secure a...”
– Will.i.am | What Does ‘Communiting’ Mean??? | Viewpoint - Advertising Age
Truth.
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