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19 Nov 08

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

Google has put the LIFE photo archive online: "Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

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19 Sep 08

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

Transcript of speech Shirky gave at April 23/08 Web2.0 conference. For me, ineresting to think about in relation to cities, and how industrialization created anxiety about and problems relating to crowding ("slums"). Now, "here comes *everybody*" means that there's another wave of "crowding" or ...crowds, and it's interesting to think about how this might play out.

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  • The
    transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so
    wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink
    itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era
    are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets
    of London.

  • The
    transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so
    wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink
    itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era
    are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets
    of London.

    And
    it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we
    actually started to get the institutional structures that we
    associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and
    museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of
    things we like--didn't happen until having all of those people
    together stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an
    asset.

    It wasn't until people started thinking of this as a
    vast civic surplus, one they could design for rather than just
    dissipate, that we started to get what we think of now as an
    industrial society.

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28 Jul 08

Old vs. New: Extreme Edition | weeasssuburb

Dan Bertolet of Seattle-based blog "Huge ass city" spent some time visiting Medfield, Massachusetts (where I gather he was raised). He temporarily renamed his blog "Wee ass suburb." This particular entry looks at two houses -- one, the Dwight-Derby house from 1621, the other a 2005 "Extreme Makeover" McMansion. Throughout, I've found Dan's entries really intriguing, but didn't comment. Today, however, someone commented with "Who gives a flying f*ck about Medfield," which prompted me to post a comment. Click through to read. I do give a flying f*ck, I guess.

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