{"id":373433,"date":"2010-02-28T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/28\/what-you-should-read-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2010-02-28T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:32:09","slug":"what-you-should-read-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/373433","title":{"rendered":"What You Should Read This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I read some interesting, some bizarre, some funny but mostly mind stimulating articles. Here is a short selection that includes a must read post about the rise of narrative in social networks and a fascinating presentation by graphic designer Nicholas Felton.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iftf.org\/node\/3321\">The Future of Social Networks<\/a>. It is storytelling &#8211; or narrative based services such as Foursquare and GoWalla. This should be at the top of your reading lists.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/emergentbydesign.com\/2010\/02\/21\/tapping-the-network-to-facilitate-innovation\/\">Tapping the network to facilitate innovation<\/a>: Venessa Miemis argues that since &#8220;humans weren\u2019t designed for mechanization&#8221; and we &#8220;designed to create&#8221; the rise of the social tools are bringing about a new co-creation ethic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.undertheradarblog.com\/blog\/a-brief-overview-of-silicon-valley-b-s\/\">A Brief Overview of Silicon Valley BS<\/a>: Ivan Gaviria, an attorney with the law firm of <em>Gunderson Dettmer,<\/em> decodes some of the valley&#8217;s top cliches. Caution: colorful language.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/28\/weekinreview\/28liptak.html\">When it comes to privacy, Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus<\/a>. Or something like that, in this New York Times dissection of <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2010\/02\/28\/google-italy-and-the-future-of-media\/\">Google&#8217;s current legal troubles in Italy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.amctv.com\/scifi-scanner\/2010\/02\/pentagon-synthetic-organism-splice.php\">Pentagon Ignores the Warnings of Splice and Jurassic Park in Breeding Artificial Life<\/a>: Forget Robots, the Pentagon is more keen on developing artificial life forms, writes Christine Fall for AMC TV.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oe-ferguson28-2010feb28,0,2697391.story\">America, the fragile empire<\/a>: Niall Ferguson writes a somewhat scary prognosis on the state of America.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lastly, watch this video of graphic designer <a href=\"http:\/\/poptech.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=50c2e1f2554a080441c503a88&amp;id=285f727894&amp;e=09d8ca4db0\" >Nicholas Felton<\/a>, the creator of <em>The Feltron Annual Report<\/em>. At PopTech 2009, he showed snapshot of <em>The New York Times<\/em>&#8216; front pages and what it means about America. Worthy of your time. And if you are interested in collecting personal data, check out Felton&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/poptech.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=50c2e1f2554a080441c503a88&amp;id=cf71b98b6e&amp;e=09d8ca4db0\" >Daytum<\/a>, a tool.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9578059&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9578059&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/102353\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/102353\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/102353\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/102353\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/102353\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/102353\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/102353\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/102353\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/102353\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/102353\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=102353&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=yVoMPkVg-CA:HqoIMgSx86c:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=yVoMPkVg-CA:HqoIMgSx86c:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=yVoMPkVg-CA:HqoIMgSx86c:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=yVoMPkVg-CA:HqoIMgSx86c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=yVoMPkVg-CA:HqoIMgSx86c:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=yVoMPkVg-CA:HqoIMgSx86c:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=yVoMPkVg-CA:HqoIMgSx86c:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=yVoMPkVg-CA:HqoIMgSx86c:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/yVoMPkVg-CA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I read some interesting, some bizarre, some funny but mostly mind stimulating articles. Here is a short selection that includes a must read post about the rise of narrative in social networks and a fascinating presentation by graphic designer Nicholas Felton. The Future of Social Networks. 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