Saturday, 19. September 12015
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“Is the media, as it gets ready to supply its product directly to social networks, becoming a ‘wire service?’”

“In 2015, the illusion of audience ownership is becoming harder to sustain.”

Totally forgot to visit some buildings during Open House Wien… :-/

(…also featuring sun quarter and com, two of the buildings hosting Digital Blackboards by reality lab and yours truly.)

A few weeks ago I learned about Vilfredo Pareto and his idea of the residues as well as the 20/80 principle – which comes up again in this especially excellent episode of Vsauce: The Zipf Mystery.

Habe fünf Beta-Invites zu vergeben für das sehr ambitionierte Projektmanagement Tool Agantty.

Friday, 18. September 12015
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Every time you drink bottled water Nestlé kills a kitten.

Light travels at around 300,000 km per second. Why not faster? Why not slower?

Will saving poor children lead to overpopulation?

Hans Rosling explains a very common misunderstanding about the world: That saving the poor children leads to overpopulation. Not only is it not right, it’s the other way around! (Via aeon.co.)

Thursday, 17. September 12015
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Dear Design Student

The History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, and Three as free PDF download (via openculture.com).

A comprehensive list of Data Structure Visualizations.