My old copy of Stewart Brand’s legendary and more relevant than ever book, “How Buildings Learn: What happens After They’re Built“, is missing. It’s out of print for the original hardcover and for a classic such as this a new paperback won’t cut it.
I remember borrowing it to somebody perhaps a year go? (And yeah, i need an enterprise book management system!)
An evening with Marissa Mayer
Transcript of Marissa Mayer’s speech at BayCHI. Had the please of watching a somewhat similar speech last year at GEL - amazing that Marissa now is the product manager for all Google’s services.
In all the controversy about the fake CBS documents, whether bloggers had any impact in getting Dan Rather fired, etc. one issue is over looked - the original inquiry in to George Bush’s military service - the Daily Kos summarizes Associated Press findings
A10 - a new architecture magazine with a european focus. Looks interesting - i’ve subscribed.
We live in interesting times
“We live in interesting times” is a very easy statement these days. The “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists” rhetorics from the President of the SuperPower of the world creates a culture where the Worlds Richest Man can say the equivalent of “Either you’re for Digital Rights Management or you’re a Communist”.
But topping it today is the The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions pulling 10,000 dollars in support of the Danish Music Critics Prize where they had nominated a civil rights organization in Denmark working to defend our constitutional rights against the media conglomerates (background on the pretty absurd danish situation in this post).
Who’s gonna stand for all us citizens (mind you, not even “the little guys” - all of us - you and me) if even the trade unions are prohibiting a real fair and balanced discussion around the issues to happen, breaking down the chinese wall in a democratic editorial decision of a nomination for a prize.
Is this where we’re at?