This month
Boundaries or Barriers for Petite-Patrie-Mile-End? « Spacing Montreal
my stomping grounds straddle the CP rail line that divides the Plateau from Rosemont-Petite-Patrie. The train tracks and adjacent industrial areas create a boundary within the urban landscape, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing: over the decades, it has allowed the neighbourhoods on either side to evolve distinct characters.
January 2012
Culture to go GbR: Berlin - Bus 100
Der Audioguide zur Berliner Buslinie 100 ist in zweifacher Hinsicht innovativ. Mit der Hörführung wird die Fahrt in einem ganz normalen Linienbus, der von früh morgens bis spät in die Nacht zur Verfügung steht, zur kommentierten Stadtrundfahrt.
Visual Culture Blog: Visual Studies and Visual Communication
ELIZABETH CRESEVEUR
Pourquoi le numérique est-il une culture ? - ENTREPRISES : Stratégies & Cultures numériques
En effet, si le numérique est à la fois une science et une culture qui introduit de nouvelles valeurs, de nouveaux critères sur nos héritages culturels, l’entreprise peut-elle garder ses modèles d’affaires, ses options de création de valeur hérités de la culture précédente ?
December 2011
jpc – Der Shop für Jazz, Pop und Classic – Musik-CDs und -DVDs online kaufen
November 2011
Comment regarder des films gratuitement et légalement
October 2011
The case for piracy – Blog – ABC Technology and Games (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
When it comes to copyright theft and piracy, many people assume there's just one side - the side of truth, justice and copyright owners. Beyond that there are parasitical thieves. When most governments come to legislate on the matter, their response is usually one of listening to what big corporations and lobby groups say and nodding in agreement. For the general public, years of being bombarded by cross platform marketing campaigns have ingrained people with various "Piracy bad. Copyright good" slogans.
September 2011
Thoughts on leadership - IBM100 THINK Forum - Joi Ito's Web
This has prompted a great deal of innovation, but also a complexity, speed and capacity for amplification that makes the world a difficult and dangerous place for many organizations and human-made systems designed for a slower and simpler era.
ANTOINE D’AGATA: “Empty Shell Walking” « ASX | AMERICAN SUBURB X | Photography & Culture
If you step into an inferno, if you willingly give up the foundations and step off the cliff, into the vortex… if you seek something that will never satisfy, if you f-k to spite love, if you feed your demons and spin without control, when you have nothing to fill you up…
affordance.info: La cathédrale, le clavier et l'étagère.
On peut démolir une masse, comment extirper l'ubiquité ?
August 2011
A Networked Thought | scraplab
containers for other people’s work, but the thought is in the connections, not the nodes.
Vernacular geography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vernacular geography is the sense of place that is revealed in ordinary people's language.
BBC News - Artists explore the Asian-American experience
There's a tension here between belonging and being outside that is essential to the Asian-American experience.
Nurture the Difference Between New York and Silicon Valley - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
apologie de la grotte.To be in Silicon Valley is to be completely immersed in technology. The building, the pushing, the hacking, the designing, the iterating, the testing, the acquisitions, the funding — it is everywhere and wholly inescapable. Here is a culture and place that emerged seemingly from nothing, and yet over the last 50 years it has developed a mythology deep and inspiring and all its own.









