PUBLIC MARKS with search politics

Yet Obama hasn't played the game that he promised. Instead, the game he has played has been exactly the game that Hillary Clinton promised and that Bill Clinton executed: striking a bargain with the most powerful lobbyists as a way to get a bill through--and as it turns out, the people don't have the most powerful lobbyists.

L’échec doit avoir sa place pour que l’architecture agisse comme agent de changement culturel. » -Robert Somol, juillet 2011

Google and China. National politics of snoopiness vs corporate ethic of not being evil aren't directly compatible, and the solution here only works because (let's face it) Tunisia is not a rising economic force. If you're selling ads in China, you don't get to pretend that the Great Firewall of China is a security issue.

Whether or not the HTML spec in the WHATWG is called HTML5 doesn’t really mean that much in the big picture. We need to solve the bigger problems. I hope that we don’t spend our time arguing over the politics of this or that, but on where we should go from here.

China has unveiled its own version of an online mapping service to compete with Google Earth's popular satellite mapping service. "Map World" was unveiled by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping on Thursday.

I also learned from the blog that many transit systems were making data available to Google and software developers that could be used in the creation of a "Frequent Service Map." The Chicago Transit Authority makes such data available. Since I have some skills and tools that could produce such a map and since I also have the interest, I decided to give it a shot.

In rocket scientist parlance, escape velocity is the speed needed to break free from Earth’s gravitational field. Last Friday, by an overwhelming majority, Le Monde’s staff voted to escape the black hole of French politics — or, at least, to give their paper the best chance to do so.

The transformation of Shanghai is unique in its speed, scale, and politics. Shanghai Transforming Blog is an on-going project to continue to develop a picture of the changing city. Shanghai Transforming is a research project, a publication edited by Iker Gil of MAS Studio and was exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Foundation and at the School of Architecture Design at Virginia Tech.

Triple Canopy works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large. These investigations are realized in an online magazine as well as in public programs and print publications encompassing various fields and locales. We aim to present work and advance ideas informed by a multitude of disciplines and perspectives, and to disseminate them among a broad and diverse audience.

there are in general two sorts of projects:

1. Strategic: Key to business success, and as such important.

2. Infrastructure: Necessary to do, but not seen as particularly vital for business success.