{"id":5491,"date":"2012-12-17T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T01:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2012-12-17T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T01:06:44","slug":"the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2012\/12\/17\/the-sunday-diigo-links-post-weekly-188\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/508666\/twitter-instagram-and-the-internet-of-disconnected-things\/?utm_campaign=newsletters&amp;utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=20121212\">Twitter, Instagram, And The Internet of (Disconnected) Things | MIT Technology Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Right on.<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nNot being able to share photos seamlessly from one social network to another may be the epitome of a \u201cfirst world problem;\u201d getting lost in the Australian outback because your smartphone manufacturer replaced a bulletproof mapping app with its inferior homemade version is a bit more serious. But in either case, the essential value of these information technologies\u2013their ability to seamlessly interface with each other as only bits, rather than atoms, can\u2013is being purposely eroded. The vision is almost comically retrograde: Twitter, Google, Apple, and Facebook each seem to think that they can provide every conceivable digital functionality to the user all on their own at each other\u2019s expense, much like GM\u2019s \u201ckitchen of tomorrow\u201d at the 1964 World\u2019s Fair promised to meet every need of a 20th-century housewife with one brand. Fifty years later, nobody has (or wants) a kitchen built solely out of General Motors products. So why do Twitter and Facebook act like there is a personal information-technology equivalent?<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/mit_techreview\">mit_techreview<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/apps\">apps<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/silos\">silos<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/john_pavlus\">john_pavlus<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/commute\/2012\/12\/cyclists-and-pedestrians-can-end-spending-more-each-month-drivers\/4066\/\">Cyclists and Pedestrians Can End Up Spending More Each Month Than Drivers &#8211; Commute &#8211; The Atlantic Cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">Key point re. the dedicated once-a-week big grocery shop, versus the ability to pop into the neighborhood grocery store (or cafe or pub) for that quick, daily stock-up&#8230;<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nBut for all of the other business types examined, bikers actually out-consumed drivers over the course of a month. True, they often spent less per visit. But cyclists and pedestrians in particular made more frequent trips (by their own estimation) to these restaurants, bars and convenience stores, and those receipts added up. This finding is logical: It\u2019s a lot easier to make an impulse pizza stop if you\u2019re passing by an aromatic restaurant on foot or bike instead of in a passing car at 35 miles an hour. Such frequent visits are part of the walkable culture. Compare European communities \u2013 where it&#8217;s common to hit the bakery, butcher and fish market on the way home from work \u2013 to U.S. communities where the weekly drive to Walmart\u2019s supermarket requires an hour of dedicated planning.<br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><span>tags:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/atlantic_cities\">atlantic_cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/emily_badger\">emily_badger<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/bicycles\">bicycles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cycling\">cycling<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/economies\">economies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/cities\">cities<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\/walkability\">walkability<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"diigo-ps\">Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/lampertina\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter, Instagram, And The Internet of (Disconnected) Things | MIT Technology Review Right on. 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