In case you need something to read on a lazy Sunday morning, here’s some of the stuff i particularly enjoyed reading over the last month:
- Two Bejars: Beware of the Googlegänger: Daniel Bejar the artist impersonates Daniel Bejar the musician. Art or identity theft?
- Why I’m Crossing NFC Off My List: I tend to agree here. The problem with NFC isn’t that it’s useless, but rather that it’s facing infrastructural problems that won’t (and can’t) be solved by designers or developers. Also, the abstractions on top of the technology are in my opinion too low-level to start building on as an application developer.
- Steven Jobs Playboy Interview: Outstanding interview from 1985.
- My Month With the Nexus S: Chris Clark reviews the Nexus S.
- Finding Baby Sciences and New Moons: Matt Webb on proto-sciences as opposed to “royal science”. Interesting food for thought.
- The Other Kind of iPad Magazines: Khoi Vinh on social magazines such as Flipboard. Still a lot of untapped potential in there.
- Lessons From Chernobyl for Japan
- Instapaper’s Arment: Seek Money From Customers, Not VCs
- Revealing the Man Behind @MayorEmanuel: The Twitter account that elevated tweeting to the level of literature. Bummed that i missed this when it happened in real time…
- Passing a Worst-Case Scenario Test: A lot of reporting here in Europe in the Fukushima aftermath seemed far removed from reality where risks and consequences are concerned. Looking at the loss of human life, nuclear still seems vastly preferable to coal and oil.
- You Are Solving The Wrong Problem: Aza Raskin on iterative problem solving.
- The Day the Movies Died: Would you believe that a movie like Inception is considered a risk these days in Hollywood?
- Inside Hollywood’s Greatest Vanity Project: I remember wanting to see Middle Men after watching the trailer, but then it kinda disappeared. Apparently no one watched the movie.
- Architecture Fiction: Premonitions of the Here and Now: Fantastic overview of and introduction to the field of architecture fiction.
- Tightening Up Building 3: Tim Maly on what architecture can learn from video game level design.
- A Rule of Thumb: Pricing Should Be Simple: John Gruber on pricing, in response to the somewhat misguided NYT paywall.
- What the NYT Pay Wall Really Costs: Khoi Vinh on the real cost of the NYT paywall.
- Opinions on REST: Nice overview of some problems with pure REST APIs.
- An Archive for Interaction Design: Khoi Vinh on the challenges of archiving experiences for posterity. I’ve been thinking along similar lines a few years back, with regards to online roleplaying games, but i’m convinced by now that interesting experiences (i.e. anything worth preserving) cannot be archived at all.
- Things about Blogging: Good, old-fashioned meta-blogging by Tim Bray. These things are rare these days.
- Upgrading the World: The WSJ reviews McGonigal’s recent book “Reality is Broken”. I don’t think i’ve come across a single review that didn’t take fault with the basic premise of the book.
- Reality A and Reality B: Fascinating essay by Haruki Murakami in the NYT.
- The Positive Balance of Technology: Kevin Kelly presents his thesis that there’s an overall positive tendency in technology from his book The Technium.
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