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Wunderkammer: Dec 20th, 2009

23 Dec 2009, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in Wunderkammer (the links), 0 Comments

Wunderkammer: Dec 20th, 2009


The curiously strong links for the week of Dec 20th, 2009

  • No, the PC Won’t Be Replaced by Mobile Phones – Did the radio replace books? Did the television replace radio? No. And if anyone tells you that its only a matter of time until the personal computer disappears into your pocket point them to this article.
  • Forget Leadership; What’s Needed is Better Builders – Umair Haque rallies against 20th-century industrial leadership and outlines ten principles of Constructivism.
  • IEEE article on the challenges of transforming America’s military to counter open source warfare – from the piece:

    “the solution is for defense acquisition to move away from what he calls ”point innovations”–that is, stand-alone systems–to platform-based systems. A platform, he explains, is a collection of services and capabilities that everyone gets access to.”

  • Explorations on Parallel Economic Systems with a “Darknet” – John Robb flexes his intellectual muscle in an attempt to forsee where blackmarkets (and a whole lot more gray ones) will end up:

    “This system, both economic and social, runs both in parallel and in conjunction with the global economy (the environment). It is self-referencing, autonomous, and willing to defend its own interests. It can be parasitic or additive to the global environment (or more effectively: both). It is competitive with other entities that operate within the global environment, from nation-states to corporations.”

    Fun thought exercises but I’m having a hard time not harking back to all the pixels spilled on virtual economies during the Second Life pr bubble.

  • Guide to Setting up Local Currencies – The Transistion Culture blog offers up a pdf on their experiences creating the Lewes Pound, an alternative currency in the UK. Like any alternative currency the goal is to promote greater local economic growth through regionally limited, globally de-coupled money.
  • An Incredibly Dour Assessment of Where Creators Are Left in Age of Aggregators – I still value the immediacy and authority of content directly from thought leaders. However, I can’t fault the logic. Straightforward blogging for dollars strategy, without a mechanism for scaling to catch more eyeballs, is extremely problematic.
  • Network Football Infopr0n – This time of year I’m watching lots of NFL football. Despite this, I never paid much attention to how information was conveyed by each network. A great design recap with plenty of screenshots.

  • WeirdChief Pop Art – I came across WeirdChief’s style of pop art on display at a blues/bbq joint downtown. Fun, affordable stuff from a Salt Lake City natives Iosua and Adrienne Taeoalii. A dazzling array of newsmakers and scene stealers is available. Unfortunately the site is a bit problematic (still under construction?). Be patient with it, however, and you’ll stumble onto the good stuff.

  • Ten Findings of Morgan Stanley’s Mobile Internet Report – I don’t have time to digest a 424 page tome of heavy academic level research. Thankfully, Tomi T Ahonen has done the work for me and found ten takeaways about where mobile is going. Very balanced and level headed thought in an age of “There’s an (app/map) for that” hype.

That’s the curiosities from the last couple of weeks. What links caught your attention amidst the holiday flurry?