The nanofactory ecosystem, the economics of blogging, the end of interrupt marketing, evolutionary psychology, yet more on bugging schoolkids …

• 1 – The Nanofactory Ecosystem

  “In addition to understanding the progress of nanotechnology toward building atomically-precise desktop manufacturing systems — nanofactories — we also need to consider the infrastructure needed to sustain that new technology paradigm.”

  (tags: management paradigm futurism foresight technology disruptive nanotechnology)

• 2 – The Economics of Blogging: Minimal Cost and Maximum Benefits

  “In the online world, the individual has no physical form or detectable personality unless he or she demonstrates it. A website that is attached to your name is your home base. It is the platform which easily fleshes out your virtual self.”

  (tags: branding reputation profile visibility economics business benefits blogging)

• 3 – The New Advertising Outlet: Your Life

  “… many large marketers are taking huge chunks of money out of their budgets for traditional media and using the funds to develop new, more direct interactions with consumers — not only on the Internet, but also through in-person events.”

  (tags: branding relationship value interaction consumer direct trends marketing advertising)

• 4 – An Active, Purposeful Machine That Comes Out at Night to Play

  “… new findings … suggest that sleep plays a critical role in flagging and storing important memories, both intellectual and physical, and perhaps in seeing subtle connections that were invisible during waking …”

  (tags: neuroscience brain intuition psychology intellect cognition memory sleep)

• 5 – Notes on Red and Gold Alliance [Part 1]

  “Saying “market anarchism” sounds like something concocted by the advertising industry is about as shallow as saying “social anarchism” sounds like they spend all of their time making small talk at wine-and-cheese affairs.”

  (tags: stereotypes politics left libertarian market anarchocapitalism anarchism)

• 6 – Nike Gets Engaged, Shrinks Traditional Ad Spending. Here’s How Copywriters Can Benefit. : The Copywriter Underground

  “It’s not exactly a surprise to the copywriting world, but traditional “interrupt” marketing techniques are losing ground to “softer” engagement marketing techniques, and the switch is picking up steam.”

  (tags: engagement soft techniques interrupt marketing advertising copywriting)

• 7 – Our Ancestral Mind in the Modern World: An Interview with Satoshi Kanazawa

  “When the environment undergoes rapid change within the space of a generation or two, as it has been for the last couple of millennia, if not more, then evolution can’t happen because nature can’t determine which traits to select and which to eliminat

  (tags: behaviour religion philosophy relationships media culture psychology evolutionary evolution)

• 8 – Walk on the wired side: jacket that lets parents keep track of children

  “There are parents who are very concerned about their child’s safety,” he says diplomatically, “and this will give them peace of mind.” The company’s name? “Blade Runner”. I sh*t you not.

  (tags: tagging GPS parenting panopticon privacy technology surveillance children UK)

• 9 – Life in 2020

  “It may be only a short while away, but the world in 2020 will be very different. Cosmos asked some of the world’s leading scientists to forecast the future.” All fairly plausible; some, worryingly so.

  (tags: change climate health lifestyle culture 2020 technology environment speculation futurism)

• 10 – 19th century newspapers go digital

  “The British Library Newspapers website … contains searchable text from 46 regional newspapers from around the UK, dating back to 1800.”

  (tags: UK media digital archive newspaper library)