Study Shows How Well Manufacturers Keep Android Phones Up To Date
Study Shows How Well Manufacturers Keep Android Phones Up To Date.
Interesting. I wonder if this fragmentation is good or bad, whether it is the sign of a healthy and diverse economy or the sign of nodes of isolation whose failure to cross communicate (aka communicate) signals a failure of the commons market.
Put another way: it’s good that there is difference; monoculture is bad, as it is vulnerable in the same way a genetic monoculture is. But too much difference is also a problem, as it does not lead to the healthy exchange of genetic identity but only a crowd of monocultures, each vulnerable, and indeed, each *more* vulnerable, as they are simply smaller.
Police Say Cal State Professor Leads Devils Diciples Gang – NYTimes.com
Police Say Cal State Professor Leads Devils Diciples Gang – NYTimes.com.
Prof’s name is Kinzey, and he’s a prof of kinesiology. Egad.
The story itself is wonderful.
Haiti study: Mass mobile phone tracking can be laudable • The Register
Comments (1)Haiti study: Mass mobile phone tracking can be laudable • The Register.
As a guess–educated guess, of course–I’d say that “migration”–of bodies, but also of information and its proprietary attachments (those elements that make it useful but also valuable, or useless while still being valued)–is the character of this 21st century.
Why? Because, first, we can move as never before, where “we” means humanity. Sure, there are billions imprisoned in their regions. But with the advent of global climate change, and all that it entails, the movement of people, their exodus, will occur as never before.
Think: Equatorial regions, really, all those within the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn (and then more), will be in growing spots (nearly) uninhabitable: too hot, not enough (potable) water, scoured by insects, disease, storm. And it is within these Tropics that the vast portion of humanity lives now and has been trained to live for tens of millennia.
But with no fish, no arable land, no food nor water that doesn’t cause yet more disease and death, there will be a migration away from ancestral homelands to areas where there is still a living to be had.
These areas will of course be already inhabited, and inhabited by those with guns and lots of xenophobic bullets. The point is not that there will be (and there will be) wars over water and arable land–refugee wars, say–but that there will vast movements regardless, and that these will need to be not policed, contained, stemmed, but understood, first and foremost, so that humanity is not lost.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty coming to the UK? – Telegraph
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty coming to the UK? – Telegraph.
Savage Beauty is a remarkable exhibit, brilliantly curated, of one of the great artists of the fin-de-siècle. Surely England’s (nae, Scotland’s) greatest of the last 50, 100 years, in terms of power, vision, execution.
And I never even saw the exhibit, just bought the catalogue/book.
Rick Bookstaber: LinkedIn Weak Links
Rick Bookstaber: LinkedIn Weak Links.
“Weak links” means more than the term suggests; it refers to a kind of second-order (or more) connection. These weak links, which we see so much now in social networks, operate and have always operated, strongly as market connectors. The article is worth reading, as are the references.
Open Source Data Journalism – Happening now at Buzz Data eaves.ca
Open Source Data Journalism – Happening now at Buzz Data eaves.ca.
A rather good article on “open source” analysis of data. The key point here is that the contributors to the data visualizations may not be experts in the global economics field the data fits into but are in working with data, identifying obviously relevant data, and in presenting it in ways that make for better analysis.
That is: open data systems, open data journalism, leads to discoveries that were unanticipated. This is the nature of the physical library that afforded the patron browsing rights. Discovery comes by accident and coincidence. So does the opportunity for freedom. (But then one must understand what one has, and that is hard.)
For News Corporation, Troubles That Money Can\’t Dispel – NYTimes.com
For News Corporation, Troubles That Money Can\’t Dispel – NYTimes.com.
Rich and fertile ground in the the US….
The Unselfish Gene – Harvard Business Review
The Unselfish Gene – Harvard Business Review.
Worth reading and typically so. Enough of proprietary libertarianism! And please, no Big Society.
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