A forward spring would be nice right about now, because it rather feels like I fell flat on my face this week. Being a sensitive sort, the twice-annual time change-a-palooza bullshit makes me feel like I have jet lag, albeit without the benefit of actual travel (i.e., change of location), and now that climate change […]
I’m very fortunate. Since March/ April 2003 I’ve been able to blog for free, hosted by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. It’s an option open to anyone with a Harvard email address. While we all started with Radio Userland, Berkman switched everyone over to WordPress couple of years ago. But presumably because it’s […]
Economic Impact: The City as a Social Portfolio « The Captured Perspective Great ‘Captured Perspective’ blog post by Peter Boumgarden, who comments on Richard Florida’s Atlantic Monthly piece: QUOTE “…cities are not just portfolios that emerge segmented for risk, but also social entities that respond positively to this differentiation with increased generativity. Cities are not […]
But Who’s Counting? (MIT Technology Review) QUOTE: Konrad Feldman, a cofounder of San Francisco–based startup Quantcast, sees big business in audience measurement. UNQUOTE No one really knows how many people visit websites – the measuring tools aren’t available, but Quantcast and Google aim to change that. tags: advertising, business_model, google, page_views, quantcast Toward a New […]
Vancouver gallery owner Jennifer Kostuik gave a talk at VISA (Vancouver Island School of Art) on Thursday (2/26) evening. Despite a technical glitch beyond her control (the projector stopped working, mysteriously, about 5 minutes into her presentation), and irrespective of a really laid-back, unstructured presentation style (yours truly sometimes prefers tighter, thesis-oriented talks), Kostuik offered […]
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