Happy new year! Herewith, again, a list of things i particularly enjoyed reading in the last month, for your lazy sunday morning perusal:
- The Blast Shack: Great piece by Bruce Sterling about WikiLeaks.
- Twelve Theses on Wikileaks by Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens.
- The Reaction of Governments to Wikileaks Should Scare the Hell Out of You: Sometimes Gizmodo is surprisingly good.
- Letting Go: Terrific piece by Atul Gawande in The New Yorker on the difficulties of dying introduced by modern medicine.
- Cloud Services as Personal Conduits: Russell Beattie raises some interesting and difficult questions about the legality and ethics of reappropriating content.
- Magical: The value of user interface innovation and qualities of natural interfaces discussed through the example of the Word Lens translation app.
- AirPlay: Here to there: Adam Lisagor spells out why AirPlay is so fundamentally different from any other existing video streaming solution. It’s all about touching and moving.
- The Presence of the Past in Fallout 3: What Fallout 3 can teach you about being a historian.
- Everything you think about graphics is stupid: Good rant about the merits of great art direction as opposed to great graphics in video games.
- Primal Rage: a conversation with Carmack, and a look at id’s latest: Ars Technica interviews John Carmack. Offers some interesting insight into why id hasn’t turned to Android development yet.
- What’s Old Is New Again on iPad: Khoi Vinh makes a compelling point that the iPad has not yet reached its full potential as a tool and platform for creation.
- The iPhone is not superfluous, not easily copied, not revolutionary and not a premium product: Great analysis by Horace Dediu.
- Do Androids Dream of Fragmented Sheep? Complaining about Android fragmentation is like flogging a dead horse these days, but still – a decent overview of the lay of the land by Glenn Fleishman at Boing Boing.
- The Men Who Stole the World: Time profiles four pioneers of the peer-to-peer file-sharing revolution.
- Newspapers are dead as mutton – HG Wells, 1943 (No, they’re not): Cory Doctorow argues that a medium doesn’t just fade away, it shrinks to fit the content it serves best.
- Analysing data is the future for journalists, says Tim Berners-Lee: Data-driven journalism would certainly be a step up from most of what passes as journalism these days.
- The Lure of Tomorrow: Why we procrastinate and how to stop. There’s maybe a new year’s resolution in there…
- How to write 1000 words by Scott Berkun.
- What does cognitive science say about privacy and the Net?
- Talking To The Sci-Fi Lord: Regenerations & Ruminations With Michael Moorcock: The Quietus interviews Michael Moorcock.
- Istanbul: City of the Future by Pico Iyer for National Geographic. Istanbul continues to rank high on my must-visit list.
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