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Another resource for thinking about design.

This blogger makes some really great points extending Joseph Reagle's ('The Argument Engine' in Wikipedia Reader) ideas of the filter than publish principle of academic publications. Haranguing the filter than publish operation, this author writes how the peer review system adulterates the author's real content writing, "In the conventional peer review system, you seek to please the reviewers who in turn try to please the editor who in turn is trying to guess what the readers want."

While Diigo isn't mentioned here explicitly, this blogger's thoughts (he manages a neat blog called TreeHugger) regarding consumerism can still apply to our source for digital bookmarking.

Bogost on "the new aesthetic." The focus is the tumblr blog "the new aesthetic" which focuses on "the otherness of computer vision." New or no?

A really great investigative piece in which a 'Wired' reporter actually takes up the commissions of a spam message to find out what's going on under the hood of its product and project.

This is related to my previous post on the SOPA backlash. Wikipedia decided to change domains based on GoDaddy's support for SOPA.

This brief article is related to our class discussion on identity and social networking.

A writer for Facebook (wow, that seems like such a weird way of putting it) explains the rationale behind the site's language and features such as the "Like" button. We can connect this to the patterns in Designing Social Interfaces.

A few rhetorical strategies.

New project called Wikidata aims to automate some aspects of Wikipedia.

Interesting concept of books as an app. I find it interesting that these textbooks are not being "written" but "developed".

Highly influential article about the essentially plagiaristic nature of all culture production, an article that itself is composed entirely of "borrowed texts." An excellent short and direct argument for uncreative writing.