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Super Bowl XLVI host city Indianapolis has concocted a new way to deal with the madness that comes with managing the world’s biggest annual sporting event. The solution? The Super Bowl’s first-ever social media command center. A team of strategists, analysts and techies will monitor the digital fan conversation via Facebook, Twitter and other platforms from a 2,800-square-foot space downtown. The station will open on Monday and run through Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5. The team will tweet directions to fans in search of parking, direct visitors to Indianapolis’s best attractions, and stand by to provide information in case of a disaster. (via Super Bowl XLVI Gets a Social Media Command Center)
Now I know I’m getting old. Here’s a teenager who has never seen a vinyl record. “It’s huge! How many songs can you fit on it?” Athena Vs. The LP (by jscalzi)
“Eventually, all the devices will be networked, and they’ll be able to find each other by proximity,” Torrone says. “So think about all the things we do on social networks today. Imagine if you could ‘Like’ someone’s bag when you see it across the street. Or if your jacket and someone else’s jacket could ‘friend’ each other. Instead of these little digital badges that pop up on websites, you could have electronic badges that could actually appear on your clothing, to show off your achievements. Or your skills, like in the Girl Scouts.” (via How Flora Makes ‘Wearable Computing’ Fun and Fashion-Forward | Gadget Lab | Wired.com)
tumblrbot asked: WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?
Meditation, yoga, chocolate. In that order.
It turns out releasing about 600 political prisoners was enough for the U.S. to make its own show of goodwill. The New York Times is now reporting an announcement from Hillary Clinton that the U.S. will resort full diplomatic relations with Myanmar. “An American ambassador will help strengthen our efforts to support the historic and promising steps that are now unfolding,” she said. (via U.S. Rewards Myanmar with an Ambassador - Global - The Atlantic Wire)
THE MAGAZINE January 2012 14 E-Mail You Say You Want a Devolution? For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art, music, design, entertainment—changed dramatically every 20 years or so. But these days, even as technological and scientific leaps have continued to revolutionize life, popular style has been stuck on repeat, consuming the past instead of creating the new. (via Kurt Andersen: From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? | Style | Vanity Fair)
