The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

• Forget Custom iPad Magazines: Onswipe Turns Any Site Into One – Technology Review

  Wow…
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  The days of iPad content apps in app stores are numbered, if HTML 5 is up to the task of delivering an app-like experience in the browser
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  tags: mit_techreview onswipe online_publishing apps html5 content browser

• Seth Godin: The New Face Of Publishing « Radio Litopia

  Seth Godin on books and publishing today.

  tags: seth_godin publishing

• Cell Phones, Microwaves And The Human Health Threat – Technology Review

  Yes, that’s about right:
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  If there’s one topic likely to generate spit-flecked ire, it is the controversy over the potential health threat posed by cell phone signals.
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  Not sure yet where I stand (or fall). Probably on the side of caution (i.e., if I’m going to power-use this stuff, give me a headset v. gluing the phone to my head).

  tags: microwaves cell_phones cellular_health biology physics mit_techreview

• The 10 Essential Elements of Design – Technology Review

  Design stuff, for reference.
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  Here are 10 essential elements or aspects of good design that transcend context, industry, and geography.
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  tags: mit_techreview design reference lists tom_wujec bill_o’connor autodesk

• How One School Redesigned Design Education – Technology Review

  I would love for TUDelft to be a great model, but looking at their faculty, I see only men and nothing but men. Sorry, but I remain unconvinced that a design school can be comprehensive and lay claim to “integrative” or even “lateral” thinking, if that thinking is led by only one gender.
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  Design education at the university level is broken: often ill-defined, shallowly specialized, and beholden to departments in art, architecture, or engineering. But if this is the case, how can the system be fixed—so that young designers can be properly trained not just in the pursuit of “making [things] look pretty” (as designer Don Norman lamented this month in an interview with Technology Review) but in the art and science of creatively integrating information to solve practical problems?

  One of the world’s largest industrial-design programs, at Delft University of Technology in Delft, the Netherlands, has been operating under this philosophy for four decades.
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  tags: design design_thinking delft tu_delft schools university gender_gap

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