Test driving a cityscape. The world's cities are growing all the time and in France, some are being modelled by computer for the purposes of urban redevelopment. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

 

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from Scripting News:

My talk this morning.

I'm going to try to explain how I think about communication, technology, creativity and making money. There are a couple of very very simple ideas that are behind everything I do, RSS, blogging, OPML, outlining, podcasting, unconferences, everything.

The two ideas are outlined in two DaveNet pieces:

1. How to Make Money on the Internet, v2.0 and

2. Monoculture, An artifact of the 20th century?

Imho, these two ideas explain everything.

Last night I was talking with Dave Luebbert, my dear friend, who I met when he was a Microsoft engineer in the mid-80s. We talked about Jeff Harbers, a Microsoft guy we both knew (he did due diligence on a company I wanted to sell to MS in 1987). And where Microsoft is at today, and why Bill Gates quit now and what it means. (That's #1, users design technology, which is why Google is ascending now as Microsoft is declining.)

If you want to understand why the music industry is going where it's going, that's both #1 and #2. There's still a bit more money to be made off the music of the 20th century, but there's no time to waste, soon that opportunity will go away, and what remains of the centralized music industry will wither and die, not to be replaced (it's as obsolete as the buggy whip industry was during the ascendence of the automobile).

They also answer the questions asked by Senator Edwards yesterday, you can't follow the algorithm inadvertently pioneered stumbled on by Howard Dean, that's too simplistic. Maybe we will have one or two more elections in the 20th century mode, and then our political leaders are going to be users of democracy, whatever that means. (It's basically up to all of us to figure that out.)

We live in the age that Emerson predicted, self-reliance. Make your own music and your own products. Everyone gets to be creative. The brains are in what we used to call the audience. No more looking up to the ivory tower for all fulfillment. Thank god we don't all have to be as beautiful as Farah Fawcett and Christopher Reeve. Everyone gets to sing. Users and developers party together.

[Scripting News]

 

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Lighting Designer Uses VectorWorks Spotlight (Nemetschek NA).

VectorWorks Spotlight Helps Light Up Belle & Sebastian's World Tour

From: Nemetschek NA
Type: Press Release

[CADwire.net - AEC CAD industry news]

 

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