Diigo Bookmarks 08/09/2008 (p.m.)
by Yule Heibel on August 9, 2008
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CityStates: Commentary on an Urban World: Kalokairi Calling: Mama Mia! and ‘Redesigning the American Dream’
Michael Dudley, who only the other day came out with a brilliant analysis of The Dark Knight, now looks at Mama Mia! across a range of feminist texts as well as some urbanist readings. Fascinating stuff, a must-read…
tags: michael_dudley, city_states_blog, movies, popular_culture, feminism, mama_mia!
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The end of suburban sprawl – Annotated
Well, well …an opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen (republished across the CanWest newspaper empire, therefore also in Victoria’s Times-Colonist), unsigned, that lays out the tenets of anti-sprawl and pro-urbanist thinking succinctly and favorably. (Except that while the title calls it “suburban sprawl,” the author calls it “urban sprawl” in the first paragraph. Odd.)
Of interest for a Canadian perspective is that the article hints at the realities of infrastructure funding in Canada.
tags: sprawl, ottawa, urbanism, cities, commentary
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You can’t eat Whuffie (but it’s getting harder to eat without it) | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon – Annotated
Tara Hunt wrote an interesting post on “whuffie” and what it means today. She also then broached the minefield of how (if) the whuffie factor gets monetized. The comments board is fascinating, and I also added my 2cents (actually, more like a $1.25 since I inflated those 2 cents into two too-long comments…).
I’m pretty sure my remarks are way too theoretical and esoteric, but they helped me make some connections and sort out a few things, so even if they’re useless to others, I benefited. Not sure if that has anything to do with whuffie, but there you go…
tags: horsepigcow, tara_hunt, blogs, whuffie, socialtheory, socialcritique, socialnetworks, comments
Diigo Bookmarks 08/09/2008 (p.m.)
by Yule Heibel on August 9, 2008
CityStates: Commentary on an Urban World: Kalokairi Calling: Mama Mia! and ‘Redesigning the American Dream’
Michael Dudley, who only the other day came out with a brilliant analysis of The Dark Knight, now looks at Mama Mia! across a range of feminist texts as well as some urbanist readings. Fascinating stuff, a must-read…
tags: michael_dudley, city_states_blog, movies, popular_culture, feminism, mama_mia!
The end of suburban sprawl – Annotated
Well, well …an opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen (republished across the CanWest newspaper empire, therefore also in Victoria’s Times-Colonist), unsigned, that lays out the tenets of anti-sprawl and pro-urbanist thinking succinctly and favorably. (Except that while the title calls it “suburban sprawl,” the author calls it “urban sprawl” in the first paragraph. Odd.)
Of interest for a Canadian perspective is that the article hints at the realities of infrastructure funding in Canada.
tags: sprawl, ottawa, urbanism, cities, commentary
You can’t eat Whuffie (but it’s getting harder to eat without it) | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon – Annotated
Tara Hunt wrote an interesting post on “whuffie” and what it means today. She also then broached the minefield of how (if) the whuffie factor gets monetized. The comments board is fascinating, and I also added my 2cents (actually, more like a $1.25 since I inflated those 2 cents into two too-long comments…).
I’m pretty sure my remarks are way too theoretical and esoteric, but they helped me make some connections and sort out a few things, so even if they’re useless to others, I benefited. Not sure if that has anything to do with whuffie, but there you go…
tags: horsepigcow, tara_hunt, blogs, whuffie, socialtheory, socialcritique, socialnetworks, comments