I’m just at the very edge of the F/OSS world, and so I’ve always enjoyed the uber-idea aggregators at O’Reilly. Tim’s stuff in particular has always been super resonant and mind-expanding for me. Their ability to intuit and articulate future trends is useful, at least to someone like me. Now there’s the “O’Reilly Radar Blog”:http://radar.oreilly.com/. [...]
Another Good Thing that happened at the Fashioning Anthropology conference. Major Anglophone Anthropology Departments as Fashion Brands By Thomas Strong Department High Concept Low Concept Harvard Armani: safe, boring J Crew: Safe, boring Michigan Donna Karan (until Rubin arrives): sells well sometimes Patagonia: earnest, ecological aura Berkeley Gucci: a house divided Gap Corp: Banana Republic [...]