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In regards to retail design, it's all too easy now to choose some stylish images from what others have crafted, or maybe even plagiarised themselves. What is missing is the employment of strategic design thinking to deliver ...
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Design Thinking and the Art of Corporate Strategy http://t.co/N0G6BJVD via @zite #assnchat...
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Robin Good: The excellent and insightful Maria Popova has really got me fascinated with this piece she wrote back in June of this year. Entitled "How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read", this writing, inspired by a book by the same name, is good food for thought as it stretches ordinary assumptions about what culture and book readings is in the end all about.
As curation is an effort in meaning creation and discovery, exploring different ways to look at how we build our picture of reality and what role books play into this process is, from my personal viewpoint, a very valuable effort.
In the end, you may likely disagree with the overall logic but personally, I have found this mental stretching exercise quite valuable and I am thankful to both Maria and the author for making it possible for me to poke with it: "The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage..."
The challenging questions being posed is: "Must we read those from cover to cover in order to be complete, cultured individuals?" and some interesting answers come from the book author himself, University of Paris literature professor Pierre Bayard, who offers "a compelling meditation on this taboo subject that makes a case for reading not as a categorical dichotomy but as a spectrum of engaging with literature in various ways, along different dimensions".
Prof Bayard writes: "As cultivated people know (and, to their misfortune, uncultivated people do not), culture is above all a matter of orientation. Being cultivated is a matter not of having read any book in particular, but of being able to find your bearings within books as a system, which requires you to know that they form a system and to be able to locate each element in relation to the others."
Maria Popova further synthesizes his thought by writing: "Literature becomes not a container of absolute knowledge but a compass for orienteering ourselves to and in the world and its different contexts, books become not isolated objects but a system of relational understanding...".
Insightful. Thoughful. 8/10
Full article: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/06/15/how-to-talk-about-books-you-havent-read/
Via Robin Good
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The article covers: Creating Facebook and Twitter lists Setting up persistent searches Hashtags Keywords Searching by location or time Creating RSS search feeds for Twitter Google advanced search operators Using contacts to find new contacts Source verification
Good stuff. Great advice. 8/10
Full article: http://www.journalism.co.uk/skills/how-to-use-social-media-in-newsgathering/s7/a550556/
Via Robin Good
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Make smarter online video ad buys and view channel statistics on the widest range of online videos. OpenSlate released findings about the top 1000 YouTube Channels; measuring top channels metrics around Engagement, Consistency and Influence and ranks who the top are by category. The findings show that in 30 days the top 1000 channels produce 30,000 videos - totaling 173 days of viewing time- that generate roughly 11.3 billion views. The study also looked at the Top 1000's social engagement, and found that the average Top 1000 channel generates 44,000 social interactions on Facebook each week. As the Infographic illustrates, music and gaming dominate the ranks of popular channels on YouTube, accounting collectively for 45% of the 1,000 most-viewed. Comedy (14%), entertainment (13%), and How-to & Style (7%) round out the top five categories. The top 1,000 channels generate an average of $23,000 each month from YouTube ads alone. That’s not including the many sponsorships and product endorsements channel managers sign themselves.
By Open Slate. http://bit.ly/QQdfjc Via maxOz
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How social context is playing a role in SEO and how marketers can adjust their strategies to match the changing character of search. Via Antonino Militello, Jose H. Flores
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animals and their artists drawn to one cause...
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iPads are making waves in education all over the nation, even in college classrooms, where they’re replacing laptops, textbooks, and notebooks. Via David Miller
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These are the slides of my talk at DataWeek 2012.
This is what is it was about: "We engineers love data and algorithms. They help create amazing things. But if and when we forget that people create data and that data can be improved by people, we will miss the promise of Big Data. It's time we all thought of this not as social vs algorithm but as Humanrithm."
And I also took the example of Content Curation as a case study. Via Guillaume Decugis
Guillaume Decugis's comment,
October 9, 2012 9:55 PM
Hi Beth! Me? No, this was for Dataweek here in San Francisco...
Michael Procopio's curator insight,
January 27, 2013 12:48 PM
Love this quote "Content marketing and curation is like Star Trek chess. You are playing a game in many dimensions simultaneously." |
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![[editorial] 'Lolita' | Charlotte Tomaszewska by Maria Eriksson for Prestige International #05 | Design, Science and Technology | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/WPzzbh7iMokF_K1FjPcVTjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Model Charlotte Tomaszewska teams up with photographer Maria Eriksson and Paris based fashion stylist Patrycja Matysiak to capture this splendid story for Prestige International magazine. Magazine: Prestige International View more : http://goo.gl/nkH8F ;
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"OneSense" On Exhibit, May 17-21, Milan Via THIS IS THE MACHINE.
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Socratic Ignorance can teach us something about our attitudes toward Design Thinking. Socrates earned his rep for being a wise man by admitting, “I don't know.” When he wanted an answer, he would go to the experts of his ...
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“Design thinking is a term that arose in order to distinguish between what others think of as design, which is usually just the surface, to the thinking behind. Thinking is something you do first, and then you make.” Paul Pangaro ...
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Some people might find scientific research boring, but I guarantee that this is very important for our own development as a society. And of course, it can be surprisingly beautiful! And, you can help scientists with your donations ... Via ABroaderView
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As a June article in The Wall Street Journal noted, schools are increasingly combining design thinking (which focuses on user experience through anthropological research) with more traditional...
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Skill to Scale is a phenonenon still not well understood in much of graduate design education today. In the next ten years this shift underway will (eventually) fundamentaly change design education, f...
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We know taking breaks optimizes work-and-create flow. But what are the best practices? And does your creativity benefit from a full nap or not? Via Creativity For Life
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There are collaboration zones, houses-within-houses, and a slew of other features that are designed to foster “curiosity and creativity.” That’s according to Vittra, which runs 30 schools in Sweden. Their most recent school, Telefonplan School (see photos below) in Stockholm, could very well be the school of the future. Via Nik Peachey, Ludmila Smirnova, Faiz A.H, Patrick Plante, association concert urbain, Francis Gosselin
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Today we have with us a stunning selection of 32 bird photographs. All coming to us by several talented photographers from Flickr which you can find there and enjoy more of their works!
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There’s a certain generation (or two) that owes its twisted, awkward, scorchingly black sense humor to John Cleese.
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