The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)
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Creative Class » Blog Archive » The Nature of This Crisis Matters – Creative Class
A sobering assessment of current bail-out strategies and why they could well fail, by Martin Kenney.
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Online technology can help any website use people, not pundits, to drive public debate
Interesting poins by Robert Niles, encouraging use of online technology combined with random sampling techniques to get public opinion front and centre, vs. having pundits either create or estimate the public mood.
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About Creative 30 – Creative 30
Want to look at this later. Interesting tension (imo) between being focusing on those chosen to be profiled like this, vs considering those who are “just doing it” whether they’re featured anywhere or not (as 1000s of other “creatives” are). There are a number of people here (as anywhere) who would fit the bill to be profiled, but they don’t live in London, so they’re not. Now, does that mean you have to live in London (or: insert fave big / creative city)?, or can you be a whiz-bang successful creative and live beyond the pale? Where is the pale these days? What, for that matter, is a pale, in the age of the internets? I guess related questions are: do these particular creatives deserve to be featured because they live in London?, Does London make them better creatives? Do creatives need London to be what they are?, Can they be creatives in non-London-type cities?, Has the “pale”-post been moved by the internet, to the point where other places can be “London”?
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26 Story Vertical Farm Skyscraper Coming to Singapore | PSFK – Trends, Ideas & Inspiration
Impressive-looking vertical farming on a 26-storey tower to be built in Singapore.
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17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners
Nice little article on why and how Twitter is useful, and how you can use it.
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CEOs for Cities Blog: “The Big Three Creatives”
Discussion of panel with John Howkins, author of The Creative Economy; Charles Landry, author of The Creative City; and Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class, which took place in Detroit at the Creative Cities Summit.
That skyscraper is awesome! I hope to see something like that planned in a Canadian city some time soon. The West Coast seems ripe for such an investment.
Regarding London and Creatives, that is an interesting note. I frequently see people featured in creative magazines and websites for things I do every day and wonder what the difference is between myself and them. I honestly don’t know after reading the articles, then I sigh and continue in my corner of the world that is not known for design or featuring designers to the world. I suppose you could say that London has a vested interest in reputation management as a design and creative capital of the world, but creativity happens everywhere at all times every day by a huge number of people.
Comment by davin — October 19, 2008 #