The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 24, 2010

Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge has significant heritage value – Journal of Commerce Surprised to see that Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge made it into the “Journal of Commerce – Western Canada’s Construction Newspaper” (Jan.25/10) …for its heritage value (not its potential as a mega-replacement construction project)! Right on. (Would love to know the story behind JSB’s […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 17, 2010

Home – Banners of Persuasion “Demons, Yarns & Tales – Tapestries by Contemporary Artists” tags: exhibitions, tapestry, arts Design fantasies for obsolete Bay Bridge span QUOTE Why demolish one of the Bay Area’s most recognizable structures rather than retain at least some of it for public use? “There’s no reason it can’t be transformed into […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 10, 2010

BuildingGreen.com – HPB Case Study: Overview – Boston Children’s Museum Renovation Interesting environmental/ sustainability angle: Boston’s Children Museum is stepping up its green credentials: “The museum expansion and renovation was designed to enhance the building’s connections to its urban waterfront site, guided by a desire to build environmental education opportunities into the design. From the […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

January 3, 2010

Twelve Resolutions on How to Be a Mensch : The World :: American Express OPEN Forum Article by Bruna Martinuzzi, author of “The Leader as a Mensch: Become the Kind of Person Others Want to Follow ” Some great ideas here: 1. Give people gifts other than those that you buy. 2. Become a talent […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

December 27, 2009

Swimming in Data? Three Benefits of Visualization – John Sviokla – Harvard Business Review QUOTE “A good sketch is better than a long speech…” — a quote often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte UNQUOTE (^ That’s the opening gambit to the article by John Sviokla.) In many ways, this is also about patterns, and pattern recognition […]

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Eat the rich: on sustainability

December 18, 2009

Another very interesting entry in Seth Godin‘s (free) PDF e-book compilation, What Matters Now, is Unsustainability by Alan M. Webber (co-founding editor of Fast Company). Now, this one had me thinking about negative externalities, the book Natural Capitalism (and its authors, Paul Hawken and Hunter and Amory Lovins), and a provocative article by Frank Furedi […]

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Analog: the landscape, not the map?

December 17, 2009

Here’s another page from Seth Godin‘s super-interesting e-book (did I mention it’s a free [PDF] download?), What Matters Now. This one is from George Dyson (of the Dysons that include his father Freeman Dyson and his sister Esther Dyson): A N A L O G Analog computing, once believed to be as extinct as the […]

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“What matters now”: importance of conservation

December 16, 2009

I’m reading What Matters Now, the free e-book (PDF here) produced by Seth Godin (with contributions by ~60 [I think] different writers: short, single-page length nuggets of wisdom or inspiration or questions to ponder). On page 37 I came across the entry by Piers Fawkes, whose PSFK site, with its global orientation, I used to […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

December 13, 2009

Flickr: Your worst railway stations Small group pool of “Your worst railway stations” for BBC news group, posted by public Flickr members. tags: flickr, railway_stations, spaces, public_infrastructure, design, bbc From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen: A HCSNet Workshop on Social and Mobile Technology to Support Civic Engagement | HCSNet “This workshop brings together people from […]

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The ugly reader

December 13, 2009

If I type “troll” into my browser, I’m immediately taken to Wikipedia’s page on Troll (Internet). That’s appropriate, since it was internet trolls – those icky anonymous assassins – I was thinking of when I decided to write about “my” ugly reader. Usually, when I post, I imagine a beautiful reader – someone like myself: […]

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