February 2012
Roxy
What’s the best Roxy Music song?
Thanks, NPR, for taking us back to 1956. →
The conversation around Pinterest has been really fascinating/revealing in terms of the tech and mainstream media’s reactions to a popular social media tool with a user base which doesn’t fit people’s ideas of the “early adopter” profile and interest set. (Tumblr had this too, though it wasn’t as blatant - tech sites mostly ignored it or rolled their eyes at the...
A History Of British Economic Worry →
This chart tells the story of how the state of the economy has come to dominate British political discussion - and it’s done so to a remarkable degree. Before the crisis of 2008 it had never “topped the charts” of issues the British public were worried about - since then it’s continually been number one.
One interesting thing is how previous peaks of economic worry faded...
The Rise Of Anti-Science →
This article, somewhat complacent about the ripples of anti-science in the UK, reminded me of a scary conversation I had a few weeks ago. I was talking to a former colleague, a very well-respected social researcher who is high-up in an agency which does a lot of the British government’s market research work. This had essentially dried up when the Coalition government came in, she told me,...
I should probably just write a book called...
hautepop:
It seems to be a fair portion of what I blog about these days.
Not that I am a marketer by profession (I’m a researcher), and certainly not that I like marketing or what it tries to do.
I am, however, interested in how it works - or otherwise. I am interested in how marketing concepts seep outward into wider ways in which contemporary people/society view themselves, and I am...
prefab sprout
tristn:
One of my friends mentioned in passing that I probably really enjoy Prefab Sprout. Any PS fans care to share what their favorite album/tracks by the band are?
8 Favourite Prefab Sprout Songs Off The Top Of My Head By A Semi-Lapsed Fan
“Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)”
“Don’t Sing”
“Faron Young”
“Goodbye Lucille #1”
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“In this week’s Kerrang!, Marmozets meet an acutal marmoset. Find out what...”
– Music journalism, it lives.
“Evgeny Morozov writes from Palo Alto, a Californian charter city established by...”
– Arcades, Mallrats, & Tumblr Thugs – The New Inquiry <- GO READ (via new-aesthetic)
I really liked this piece, though The New Aesthetic’s excerpt is v misleading - this isn’t a social media hand-wring at all, it gets stuff right about digital culture as pop culture which the vast...
Anonymous asked: 95 manifesto
My Favourite Dickens Books
Bleak House
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
A Christmas Carol
Nicholas Nickleby
I’m not actually sure I finished NN. I certainly didn’t finish Our Mutual Friend. Don’t think I ever tried Dombey And Son. Surprised I never read A Tale Of Two Cities. I kind of feel the pace of My Modern Life is too rapid (and my attention span too bollocksed) for monster size Victorian...
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dauthan asked: Have you played much Settlers of Catan yet? Thoughts?
Fake Non-Fiction Best Sellers - Magical Wasteland →
Elbow: The Mysterious Pattern Inside Everything and How It Will Change the Way We Think About the Economy, Health Care, and the Internet
What is an “Elbow”? As best-selling science journalist Jonathan Brainer explains, it’s a ubiquitous pattern that looks much like its namesake anatomy: a line moves in one direction and then– suddenly– in another. Brainer ingeniously shows us how Elbows seem to...
“Reuters’ Paul Smalera, for example, ordered Twitter’s critics to...”
– http://boingboing.net/2012/01/31/twitters-early-bird-special.html
The whole post is very good.
