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JuiceTorrent Is On!!!

Yeah… !!! We (at People Networks) did it!
The points about JuiceTorrent:

Gives organizations and individuals (we call them JT stars) the possibility to start their own self-expanding ad networks through the blogs and websites of their fans and supporters.
Gives people (fans and supporters) an easy way to start and manage micro-streams of ad revenue from their [...]

JuiceTorrent… Make Your Own Ad Network

First, let me state the obvious: all I do - is co-doing… with my partners, team, my wife and the people I meet, read, and follow. This post was, in fact, suggested by one of my partners. So here it is…
December 1991 - I write (in this paper) that “There is no … author/audience … no [...]

New Tagging Service from Google

I want such a service. Google should offer such a service.
Give me a feed of keywords from your search index corresponding to the page I serve… so I can display them as a cloud of “search tags” … working as predefined automated searches.
A few days ago I was reading/commenting a post on A VC’s blog [...]

On the Need to Design Useless, Destructured, and Ugly Architecture (a.k.a. The Anti-Architecture Manifesto)

  Illustration by E.S.
First published in:
Dimensions, no 7 (1993), 70-71
Journal of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Aditya Sood (Editor of Dimensions at that time) called my article “The Anti-Architecture Manifesto.”

Why Useless Architecture?
If architecture is “locked” in the “universal chain” of mutual “exploitation” and “channeling” of human life - [...]

Discipline vs “Field” Discourse

The original rather pretentious title (I was young then) was:
“To-wards An Old/New Way of Thinking, Writing, Designing…”
1991 (previously unpublished)
“…the validity, usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested by research that violates them…” (Paul Feyerabend)
 illustration by E.S.
Discipline
Stumbling. However, quite revealing as experience – in Professor Senkevitch’s class on “Thresholds of Architectural Thought…” students have to [...]