February 2012
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October 2011
4 posts
WatchSo happiness is the most popular word we have heard through the past two years. Happiness is not only related to personal experiences and personal values, but also, it’s about the environment. People are thinking about the following questions: Are we going to sacrifice our environment further to produce higher GDP? How are we going to perform our social and political reform to keep pace with...
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Statement by the President on the Passing of Steve... →
minusmanhattan:
shortformblog:
Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
By building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By...
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August 2011
1 post
Will a Harvard Professor's New Technology Make... →
infoneer-pulse:
Another sign that the college lecture might be dying: Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur is championing the “flipped classroom,” a model where information traditionally transferred during lectures is learned on a student’s own time, and classroom time is spent discussing and applying knowledge to real-world situations. To make it easy for professors to transition...
“This is a generation of kids that have learned to communicate, search and...”
– Oh, the pages that glow! - Boston.com (via infoneer-pulse)
June 2011
7 posts
“In that sense, one of the key struggles that people face in old age — isolation...”
– The Future of Old
-Amanda, 25, Shanghai
“I hope kids are still finding some way, despite Google and Wikipedia, of not...”
– Tim Kreider, In Praise of Not Knowing (via stoweboyd)
Watch“The recent release of Nike SB’s ’Support Your Local’ video places Chinese youth culture and skating at the center, revealing a rarely witnessed portrayal of how the subculture manifests locally.”
-Amanda, 25, Shanghai
I Skyped with my 80 year old grandmother yesterday. She’s never used the internet. She couldn’t believe that she could see me all the way from Maine to China:) I love technology.
-Amanda, 25, Shanghai
“The study surveyed 500 American college students. Seventy-three percent of them...”
– 38% of College Students Can’t Go 10 Minutes Without Tech [STATS] (via infoneer-pulse)
-Amanda, 25, Shanghai
May 2011
2 posts
WatchDocumentary-style, single-take acoustic music videos filmed in China http://t.cn/hgxtgJ
-Amanda, 25, Shanghai
April 2011
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March 2011
6 posts
WatchWe All Want to be Young in China
By Enovate
-Amanda, 25, US
“This year, people born in the year 1985 will turn 26 years old. They will get...”
– And I am old. (via tankboy)
This year, I will turn 26. I will not (I don’t think?) be getting married, having kids, buying houses… but every day on Facebook, I’ll see friends from college and high school do this (nearly every day it’s a new update like this).
Instead of...
“If you read an article that describes young Chinese’s consumption power, or the...”
– -From a great post from Kevin Lee of China Youthology
What the Media won’t to tell you about China’s Youth.
-Amanda, 25, US
This 26-Year-Old Is Making Millions Cutting Out... →
infoneer-pulse:
Welcome to disruption. 26-year old Amanda Hocking is the best-selling “indie” writer on the Kindle store, meaning she doesn’t have a publishing deal, Novelr says.
And she shouldn’t. She gets to keep 70% of her book sales — and she sells around 100,000 copies per month. By comparison, it’s usually thought that it takes a few tens of thousands of copies sold in the first week to...
February 2011
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January 2011
11 posts
Life is hard. Here is someone.: I have been trying... →
Meaghan is incredible. Read her story below.
-Amanda
meaghano:
I have been trying to tell this story for months—I’ve been writing it in the shower, telling it to myself while scramble for a G train i can already hear passing me, walking around town, thinking about nothing and then a little about this. By the time I get back to my computer, though, it…
WatchA great documentary on skateboarding in Shanghai
-Amanda, 25, US
Swearing off Debt as a Sign of True Adulthood
Having paid off my credit card a few months back (and sworn off any personal ones in the future), I’ve now just budgeted a monthly savings plan for myself. I am officially an adult.
And to think, it only took 25 years.
-Amanda, 25, US
newsweek:
niemanlab:
The 18-to-29-year-olds citing the web as their main news source have nearly doubled since 2007: 34% then, 65% now http://nie.mn/i77uQI
Interesting, but we’re more concerned with the fact that we’re 9 mos away from being out of this demographic. Does that make us the oldest people on Tumblr?
As a thought…how much is related to just more news sources online? The...
December 2010
18 posts
472. Love the one you're with.
-Dave, 26, DC
Grown Up Talk
britticisms:
My senior year of college, I wrote an essay about how strange it seemed to me that my sister lived for the weekends, practically fetishized Saturday nights. How sad for her, I thought. That will never be me, I thought. Things will be better, more perfect for me, I thought. Last night I thought about deleting it, ashamed of my thought process back then, only two years ago,...
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Two years on Tumblr: photos automatically pulled from all of my posts and made into a video using Pummelvision.
-Amanda, 25, US
Online sharing: The rock 'n' roll of the digital... →
infoneer-pulse:
Often, younger users — the so-called “digital natives” who have roamed the Web for as long as they can remember — are less worried than older people about their privacy online.
But it’s not because they don’t care about protecting their information. In many cases, experts say, it’s because they understand how to control it better than older users. To them, it’s easy to pick and...
