[grid::brand] Branding Psychogeography!

“We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun”Ivan Chtcheglov For this grid blogging specially devoted to the topic of “BRAND”, I came up with the idea of “branding psychogeography”. According to Guy Debord, “Psychogegraphy is the study of the effects of geographical settings,...

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Link and Think

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE . Good resources here. Today is World AIDS day ! As a matter of fact, my oldest souvenirs about AIDS are the following : - a strange ball full of spike in an old magazine (e.g 3D representation of the virus) - death of Keith Haring ! He died from AIDS and I don't know wh...

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rate your soul

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE According to www.wewantyoursoul.com, my soul is worth £20420. For my peace of mind, 47% of people have a purer soul than me. Gosh ! let's go back to julius and friends ...

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peak oil

Association for the Study of Peak Oil. "World oil and gas supplies are heading for a "production crunch" sometime between 2010 and 2020 when they cannot meet supply, because global reserves are 80 per cent smaller than had been thought, new forecasts suggest. Global oil production would peak in the...

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European Cities Classification

Healey and Baker's report about European Cities (best cities to locate a business today). In the overall rating of best cities for business the top cities of London, Paris and Frankfurt remain unchanged. The other cities to move up this year are: Manchester (19th to 13th), Geneva (15th to 14th), Li...

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quitter la france?

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Via le figaro : "Quitter la France : ce nouveau comportement des élites est un mauvais signe. Au-delà des grosses fortunes à la recherche de pays fiscalement moins gourmands, ce sont désormais des chercheurs, des entrepreneurs, des cadres qui préfèrent l'exil, parfois dé...

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mobilisation phenomenon

The phenomenon of mobilisation is the process by which mobile technologies are folding themselves into the fabric of our economies, social lives and communities. ...

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City Metabolism

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Read in London Calling (interesting report about 3G cell phone could modify London) : London is a city of flows. An endless stream of people, goods, information and money flow into the city, around the city and out of the city, supported by a complex infrastructure of ne...

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ma pratique du blog

It's been nearly 8months that I blog and I never talk about my blog activity. I would like to adress different issues I noticed : - this blog have regular readers and occasional readers. - most of the occasional readers often come up with two comments. The first is that they are wondering when I ha...

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Schweizerischer sonderfall (Swiss way of life)

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Le sonderfall c'est le "cas particulier". Il y a dans l'inconscient suisse cette idee que nous sommes la Suisse est une Nation particuliere. Cela explique le "alleingang" suisse (la voie unique, sans l'europe) et le succès de Blocher (UDC, droite bien à droite). ...

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