Tracking Cultural Trends With WordSpy

Trend Boys Get Their Services On
A couple of new trend services to note. First from Ed Cotton and his Influx crew: a trends blog called Emerge edited by James 'Flipping' Freeman. Cotton says: EMERGE is the unit...

Visualizing Innovation and Cultural Data Flows
Lev Manivich is an author and Professor of Visual Arts at UCSD who's looking for new ways to create quantitative measures of cultural innovation and visualize cultural flows ...

Blogosphere Doubles In 5.5 Months
As of the end of July 2005, Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links, Technorati main man David Sifry reports."Interestingly, this is ju...

Multidisciplinary Space For Young People, By Young People
Ciudad Cultural Konex is a hidden spot (or at least a well preserved secret) located in the heart of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Build in what used to be an industrial oil fabric, r...

BAA Finally Trialling RFID Luggage Tracking
With even meat suppliers getting in on the RFID action, the BAA have finally decided to trial the same technology for tracking luggage coming in and out of London's Heathrow Airp...

DIY Mail Tracking
Although the price of the GPS Mail Logger may deter the vast majority of potential users (it's $700), the idea of it is an interesting pointer towards personal control of our o...