Daily Diigo Public Link 12/28/2007

December 27, 2007

La dolce vita turns sour as Italy faces up to being old and poor – Times Online Annotated – relates to my blog entry Dec.23/07,”High Rents=Mamma’s Boys?” Interesting comments thread, with many agreeing w/ article, others saying that it’s not so bad. In either case, stagnation seems to be setting in (symptom of what?, political […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 12/27/2007

December 26, 2007

Goodbye to the Mall | varnelis.net – review of The Economist article on Victor Gruen, the birth of the mall, the death of urban centres, the rebirth of urban centres, and the rebirth of the mall (now lifestyle centre) as envisioned by Rick Caruso; this blog entry is choc-a-bloc full of excellent additional links, too. […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 12/26/2007

December 25, 2007

Pew Internet: Teens and Social Media Annotated The portal page for the report that CEOs for Cities linked to. “There is a subset of teens who are super-communicators — teens who have a host of technology options for dealing with family and friends, including traditional landline phones, cell phones, texting, social network sites, instant messaging, […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 12/25/2007

December 24, 2007

Waterfront plan: A magnet and, hopefully, model (Toronto Star) Annotated Dutch landscape architect Adriaan Geuze’s vision for T.O.’s waterfront: “The point must be that we won’t have to live on the waterfront to feel at home there.” In this article by Christopher Hume, some really interesting discussion (by Geuze) about cars, how they’ve taken over […]

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Daily Diigo Public Link 12/24/2007

December 23, 2007

Harvard Institute of Politics Poll Find Youth Favor Obama, Giuliani Annotated – so much for the myth of disengaged youth; most are paying attention, and they’re not happy with what the traditiional parties are dishing up. I think this also indicates unhappiness with the parties’ neglect of urban issues.

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High rents = mamma’s boys?

December 23, 2007

And some other comments on creative societies… Let’s start with this interesting item from Ananova, which I bookmarked several months ago: Help for mummys’ boys The Italian government is handing out grants to help mummys’ boys leave home. The move comes after economists warned almost 60% of young adult Italians stayed at home and were […]

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Diigo Daily Public Links, update

December 23, 2007

Since that first, overly surfeited with information, Diigo Daily Public Links blog a couple of days ago, I altered the parameters — cleverly, I thought, to include only the links themselves, tagged “links” (so that the entry would be tagged “links” on my blog). Not a good idea, because what I inadvertently did was to […]

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Oops, a surfeit of information

December 20, 2007

The Daily Blog Post update worked (see the entry preceding this one), but I think I need to alter the parameters.  Talk about an avalanche of annotations!   I’ll change it to post only the links, and not all the stuff I underline or “backtalk” to…!

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Daily Diigo Public Link 12/21/2007

December 20, 2007

At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star – New York Times Annotated “Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace.” The professor, who […]

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Links posting

December 19, 2007

I use a really great service called Diigo, which has many features I’ve left unexplored. I’ll try to remedy that by installing the “Daily blog post” tool, which (as I understand it) uploads my public Diigo bookmarks once a day to this site (the vast majority of my bookmarks are private, but I’ll try to […]

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