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Oct

2008

Young Professionals Meet for a Power Breakfast, but They Don’t Call It Networking - NYTimes.com

Nice article on the "new" social networking, with a special look at likemind meet-ups, the un-network.
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"Likemind gatherings have no formal structure, no fees and typically no agenda. But participants exchange ideas, job tips and useful contacts, while also batting around ideas about technology, art, business and culture."

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Likemind gatherings have no formal structure, no fees and typically no agenda. But participants exchange ideas, job tips and useful contacts, while also batting around ideas about technology, art, business and culture.
Likemind caters to young professionals in advertising, media and design who are products of the age of personal blogs, warts-and-all YouTube videos and viral marketing. For them, the best pitch is the disguised pitch. Nothing, participants said, is more uncool than the hard-sell of traditional networking (which may explain why likemind is not capitalized).
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- In a sense, likemind gatherings are more like the networking-party equivalent of so-called “unconferences,” which arose as a rebuke to the staid $1,000-a-head industry gatherings. They are typically free informal retreats where people in the same field can engage in extended open-ended brainstorming sessions unified around a single theme.

Aug

2008

How Buildings Learn | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration

PSFK's Piers Fawkes writes an entry that provides the links (now available on Google Video) to the BBC series, "How Buildings Learn," by Stewart Brand. In addition to the six parts (each ~30 min. long), Fawkes includes some choice quotes.

For those who know and appreciated Stewart Brand's book, this series is a great addition.

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Only 1 in 10 buildings are revisited by the architects after they’re in use.
Buildings change and change and change because all the people who use them have their own ideas - and that’s good… but we need a better understanding of the organic change that happens to buildings.
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- The central problem is that architects don’t want change - but change is inevitable. People who use them change how they want to use them - but we have to understand that.
- this lack of confidence that has been fostered in the population is a manipulation that has been caused partly by the media, largely by the [architectural] profession - and this endangers the fabric of society because if people lose confidence in themselves to that degree then the adaptation of the environment to common sense and everyday use disappears.

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