BLDGBLOG carries Simon Norfolk‘s incredible photo today of the MareNostrum supercomputer, housed in a chapel at the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona. Quite a contrast from One Wilshire, about which more can be read again in the AUDC Wiki, which has recovered from being off-line for a few weeks.
Month: May 2006
The Disappearing Mid-Market
Earlier this year, after comparing advertisements from the 1980s and the present day, I suggested that the consumption of luxury items has become more and more widespread in network culture
Recently, I ran across a story in the Economist on
The Disappearing Mid-Market that argues that consumers are finding new ways to save through eBay and other bargain outlets (buying used clothes is more acceptable than ever) while buying more and more luxury goods. The result is the end of the mid-market. Goodbye Sears and Macy’s.
networked individualism
How do individuals relate to each other on the Internet? A paper from the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Communication, suggests that in place of groups, we will see the rise of network individualism.