links for 2005-03-10

• The Future Shock
  Another interesting example of a game that blurs the boundary between digital and physical realms.
  (categories: digital/physical games)
• (Weblogs and) The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything...
  "I'm going to try and explain how weblogging fits into the wider world with an eye to showing how weblogs may form a ragged centre for our small-scale personal creative endeavours."
  (categories: blogging future Internet)
• Trojan Horse Gallops from Beijing, Disguised as Dalai Lama Statement
  Chinese gov't hackers continue to attack dissident groups with fake emails and viruses
  (categories: Asia government religion protests)
• A massive fraud?
  Critical review of the Bruce Mau exhibition, "Massive Change." The designer-as-hero and designer-as-comprehensivist visions, it argues, have bad for both design and society.
  (categories: design culture)
• Cell phones dial into the preteen market
  "Cell phones, which are practically de rigueur for teenagers, are finding their way into the even smaller hands of preteens."
  (categories: mobility ubicomp youth culture)
• Farm size and productivity
  Articles examines the relationship between farm size and productivity in agriculture in Bangladesh
  (categories: agriculture)