links for 2010-10-25

The author argues that to cling to Jacob’s roman­tic ide­al of the vibrant urban neigh­bour­hood is futile in the face of long term eco­nom­ic development.

I keep dig­ging up fas­ci­nat­ing fac­toids about this strange Chi­nese city. Here’s anoth­er one, about vil­lage-like nodes with­in the city limits.

“I do hope that we always have peo­ple around us remind­ing us to nev­er take the inter­nets too seri­ous­ly.” Danah Boyd makes a con­vinc­ing argu­ment that the folks at 4chan are hack­ing the atten­tion econ­o­my, sim­i­lar to how old school hack­ers were chal­leng­ing secu­ri­ty systems.

Pret­ty proud of the fact that Dutch games stu­dio Ranj have won yet anoth­er award. They keep bring­ing it, and don’t shy away from nov­el formats.

Not a bad list of things to live up to as a busi­ness. I think Hub­bub is in pret­ty good shape when it comes to these.