The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)
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Lifehacker – How to Filter and Manage Your Online Social Life – Social Networks
The title is self-explanatory.
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Fairy tale or horror story – join the debate | RUDI – Resource for Urban Design Information – Annotated
“Urban designer and artist collaborations: what value do they bring?”
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The event did not focus on ‘how to do’ public art, but rather aimed to stimulate debate and throw up challenges to what some are coming to regard as a too-often standardised way of creating public spaces.
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Ecological Urbanism (Events at GSD)
Description of “Ecological Urbanism,” an exhibition at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, March 30 to May 17, 2009.
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May 10th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
These social networking sites are getting out of hand. Myspace, Facebook, LinkdIn and Twitter. I already have trouble organizing myself around these. In another 6 months, a new network will come out and the process begins again.
May 11th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Yep. And if you get behind in setting up filters (or don’t use them at all), the information in those social networks becomes nearly useless, ’cause serendipity (seeing a great/informative/useful update by chance) only goes so far.
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Whether we realize it or not, those of us who use the social networks for information or pattern recognition or what-have-you are effectively training ourselves as curators. I suppose you could think of it as a new job – which, for now, hasn’t got a “useful” – i.e. paid – purpose in “the real world.”
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Maybe that’s why some of this stuff feels like being in school? 😉