Rowland's Links

18 April 2008

Above is the progress report on Viewfinder, a project to "flickerise" GoogleMaps. Thanks to Ewan for the tip.

Bit of an absence recently. Here a few short links to keep you going:

- Motionbox, a video editing suite type thing. Also Animoto.

- Information Architects, who do future trends better than anyone and have a nice map to prove it.

- Visuwords, which turns the thesaurus into a diagram.

- An article by Robert Kagan in TNR about the end of history: why the twenty-first century will look like the nineteenth.

- And a link-fest, in Conde Nast Portfolio's Brilliant Issue. A pretty bullish title, but one they might actually have lived up to.

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Posted by Rowland Manthorpe on 18 April 2008

  • Will Davies - 05 Jun 2008 1:48pm

    "In 2003 the average British commute was 35 minutes. Today, it is one hour five minutes." Typo surely?! The average commute can't double in the space of 5 years... If it has, this must represent a drastic upheaval of economic geography to rival 1950s suburbanisation (or perhaps the distances have remained similar, but congestion and public transport have just got a lot worse)

  • Tim - 05 Jun 2008 1:48pm

    Charles Taylor's article was brilliant and could form an interesting defence of multiculturalism, particularly in the response to the Archbishop of Canterbury's speech. Effectively Williams was arguing that a secular state must make room for conscience (I saw sharia law as a echo of his plea for Catholic adoption agencies to continue not to recruit gay parents). There's no need for conflict in the legal system, but 'accommodation' may provide the route to cultural (or spiritual) survival. You may not agree with the stand of the Catholic agencies (as I don't) but it takes on a different perspective if it's seen as part of a battle for cultural survival. I think Williams was arguing for a place in British life if not for the survival, at least for the cultural continuation of Islam in British life.

  • Tessy - 05 Jun 2008 1:47pm

    Exactly a week later. Brilliant!

  • Rowland Manthorpe - 05 Jun 2008 1:43pm

    Who is your most hated member of the commentariat then Matthew? There's such a choice: Hari, Monbiot, mad Maddy Bunting...

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