by Brian on 07-02-2011
in web
I’ll probably use Google+ for sharing photos, but not much else, for now. It seems great for that, giving me enough reason to recommend it. For conversation and news sharing I’ll have to wait and see. I’ve wanted a way to share family photos, etc., without sharing everything with every acquaintance — not because I [...]
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google,
internet,
intimacy,
privacy,
public sphere,
secrecy,
signaling,
social,
social media,
social networking
Today I was trying to answer this question in a group discussion at AgendaCamp. Most of the time we talked about reasons to not stay in London. Personally, I moved back to London in 2000 after finishing school to regroup before figuring out what to do with my life… And I stayed in London because [...]
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cities,
citizen engagement,
culture,
demographics,
generations,
marketing,
openness,
signaling,
social media,
strategy,
youth culture
On the surface the Copenhagen summit was about cutting carbon emissions, but the situation reminds me of Robin Hanson’s well known countrarian notion that politics is not about policy: Civics teachers talk as if politics is about policy, that politics is our system for choosing policies to deal with common problems. But as Tyler Cowen suggests, real [...]
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china,
climate,
climate change,
copenhagen,
environment,
geopolitics,
negotiation,
obama,
power,
signaling
Richard Florida responds to my last post by referencing a 1948 essay by Anatole Broyard, “A Portrait of the Hipster,” via this article: Broyard was less enthusiastic about these supposed new rebels, and saw the attempts to escape from the restraints of society through narcotics, jazz, and general disaffiliation, as merely ways to a new conformity. [...]
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behavioral economics,
fashion,
hipsters,
moral psychology,
relevance,
signaling,
will to relevance
