I came across Brendon J. Wilson’s excellent blog post, Does it matter if the future isn’t available in Canada? last week and felt compelled to comment. Brendon’s post addresses a response to Macleans Magazine’s article You can’t buy that here, which, as he wrote, mirrored concerns he already expressed in a March 2009 post, Borders […]
YouTube – Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights Still one of the best talks on …well, sliced bread and all it has spawned. Also by Seth Godin, What makes an idea viral?, a short, thought-provoking post. tags: seth_godin, marketing, ted_conference High population density triggers cultural explosions Report on a new study by University […]
I just uploaded my May and June FOCUS Magazine articles to Scribd.com – and wow, I guess I was so pissed off about the idiot letter in the May issue (which was in response to my April article, It’s the people, stupid) that I didn’t even notice until now how badly the magazine had botched […]
It won’t come as news to those of us who love and defend cities, but it’s nice to have scientific research backing up what we espouse as urban positives: High population density triggers cultural explosions, according to a new study by scientists at University College London. The study was published in the journal Science; see […]
Technology Review: Blogs: Predictably Irrational: The Symbolic Power Of Money (by Alon Nir) Fascinating short article, which reports on a new study that suggests that “simply handling money can dull physical and emotional pain.” Previous studies show that social exclusion and physical pain share (and trigger) common neural reactions, and it appears “that money and […]
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