“While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled—from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010.”
Report available here.
[via @Philanthropy]
Via philk:
Crispin Porter + Bogusky gives baby carrots the junk food treatment.
This is just wonderful.
“…Just in time for the battle over what’s gonna be in millions of back-to-school lunches, Bolthouse Farms and nearly 50 other carrot growers today will unveil plans for the industry’s first-ever marketing campaign. The $25 million effort sets its sights on a giant, big-spending rival: junk food…”
—More from USA Today(via redesign related)
Wright matters:
Dramatic, historic and prices slashed, yet no buyers are biting - chicagotribune.com
In Los Angeles, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House and La Miniatura remain on the market, despite significant price reductions/buyer incentives. Begs the architectural stewardship question: Who is willing and able to take care of these historic homes?
[hat tip to @ChiArchitecture]
Related: June 2009 post.
This morning, NPR aired this “Digital Overload” interview with NYT’s Matt Richtel. It dovetails with the Times’s “Your Brains on Computers” series (latest installment here).
I heard only snippets of the NPR interview … because I was fiddling around online (doing “stuff”). Had I not been multi-tasking, I might have actually *listened* to the NPR story.
Makes me want to – and think I should – extend what I’ve dubbed “my self-imposed Facebook hiatus” a while longer.
Anybody else feel compelled to scale back online activity, even temporarily, as I’m doing, to help diminish digital overload?
[from Los Angeles Times (Culture Monster blog)]
The Pacific Symphony’s “Tweetcert” event is modeled, in part, on Houston Symphony’s June Tweetcert and National Symphony Orchestra performances held last summer at Wolf Trap in Vienna, VA.
[N.B. - The venues for all three organizations’ performances are amphitheatres, not enclosed, indoor (dark) concert halls, so concert-goers looking at their phone (or iPad) screens aren’t likely to be too distracting to the folks sitting near them.]
Performing arts trend likelihood: high.
Via smartercities:
surp:
Urban Farms Sprouting on New York City Rooftop
Huffington Post describes the video above:
… Reuters takes a look at the initiatives of an ambitious organic farming business, Brooklyn Grange, looking to transform NYC’s vast expanse of empty rooftops into lush forests of food.
Brooklyn Grange’s first farm is a 40,000-square-foot warehouse rooftop that grows hundreds of thousands of plants without the use of pesticides or other chemicals. According to its website, tomatoes are one of its biggest crops with over 40 varietals planted.
Head Farmer Ben Flanner is no stranger to the task; after quitting his finance job, he founded Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in 2009 — a 6,000-square-foot farm in Brooklyn that was the first rooftop soil farm in New York.
Flanner tells Reuters that the farm is not only a way to provide fresh and healthy food directly to the local community, but does its part in greening the city by absorbing storm-water runoff and also cooling the building underneath.
Via unconsumption:
Five restored travel trailers (+ teepee & yurts) = El Cosmico
Boutique hotel. Marfa, Texas.