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Interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from daily news stories and the Magazine picks out such snippets for its weekly feature, 10 things we didn't know last week.
BBC - Magazine Monitor: 100 things we didn't know last year
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Teaching in batches from one central pedagogue has been the traditional method of teaching since Ancient Greece – The opportunities offered by the digital age include flexibility for different ages and abilities, as well as a horizontal transfer of knowledge, taught by students to other students, rather than a vertical transfer from Lecturer to student.
Britain's back-room negotiations to establish a national, extrajudicial Internet censorship regime - Boing Boing
By Cory Doctorow at 12:27 am Thursday, Mar 31The Inner Critic gets a lot of bad press, especially among blocked creatives who wish the nagging critical voice at the back of their mind would disappear.
Why Your Inner Critic Is Your Best Friend :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
Not every CD will possess every quality, even greats like Bernbach, Burnett, Abbott and Ogilvy had a few chinks in their substantial armor. But this is a good ingredients list of traits. Leave one or two of the minor ones out, no biggie.
What Makes a Good Creative Director? (Part 2) - DesignTAXI.com
Rapleaf describes its services innocently enough -- standard boilerplate about "personalized experiences" and "help[ing] Fortune 2000 companies gain insight into their customers." But The Wall Street Journal took a closer look at the San Francisco-based company and came up with this doozy of an infographic, which shows how Rapleaf sucks up hundreds of personal datapoints about web consumers and feeds it to a network of advertisers--often linking the data to consumers' real names in the process. [Click for larger version]
Infographic of the Day: How Rapleaf Spies On Your Online Habits | Co.Design
Zachary Rodgers | August 2, 2010 Razorfish has created a new design practice with the premise that marketing execs should give up on big ideas that produce mostly one-off campaigns. Instead, it's asking clients to embrace an iterative test-and-learn mindset that gradually refines a website or marketing effort over time.
Razorfish Disses the Big Idea, Pushes Iterative Model | ClickZ
Over the past several months, I’ve been fortunate to meet and talk to a number of people — among them Jan Chipchase of Nokia, Peter Whybrow of UCLA, and Caroline Hummels of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands — about the role of the designer in behavior change.
Design With Intent: Change Observer: Design Observer
This article was taken from the April issue of Wired UK magazine.
Russell M Davies: The value of metadata