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Tag Archives: web
Ruining the net one ‘Mad ad’ at a time
I don’t know about all of you, but I find the increased blizzardization of advertising on the net to be quite annoying anymore. Given the trend lines depicted in the chart above, I fear it will only continue get worse. You can’t … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, Advocacy, civics, commerce, Communications, consumerism, culture, entrepreneurship, history, humanity, internet, marketing, Social media, technology, video, visual pollution
Tagged advertising, consumerism, internet, marketing, media, social media, visual pollution, web
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“Her”- Love in an impersonal world
Kathy and I saw the film Her over the weekend. The movie is a poignant fast forward portrayal of our impersonal digital world. Putting irony and emphasis on this portrayal was the fact that as we exited the theater, nearly everyone … Continue reading
Posted in art, civics, civility, Communications, culture, diversity, entertainment, film, history, humanity, internet, Love, movies, music, pictures, Science, technology, theaters, video, Women, writing
Tagged acting, Amy Adams, art, drama, film, humanity, internet, Joaquin Phoenix, love, motion pictures, movies, romance, technology, web
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It’s time for 21st century legal noticing!
In an era of daily newspapers shutting down or dramatically reducing their publication dates to just twice or thrice a week, and with Saturday mail delivery being on the fiscal chopping block, it seems long-past time that planning and zoning enabling legislation … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, Advocacy, cities, civics, civility, commerce, Communications, culture, education, government, history, humanity, inclusiveness, land use, Language, libraries, planning, politics, Social media, technology, Television, urban planning, writing, zoning
Tagged advertising, cities, government, internet, land use, legal notices, news, planning, politics, publications, urban planning, web, zoning
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Top 12 posts of 2012
The past year has been a terrific one for panethos.wordpress.com. So, I thought I would list the top 12 posts that were published in 2012, as tabulated through a few moments ago. If anything changes substantially by the actual end of … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, aerospace, air travel, airport planning, airports, Alternative energy, architecture, art, bicycling, Biking, books, Canada, Cars, cities, civics, civility, climate change, coffee shops/cafes, Communications, Cuisine, culture, diversity, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, Europe, family, fitness, Food, fun, geography, Geology, globalization, government, health, historic preservation, history, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, landscape architecture, music, nature, new urbanism, peace, placemaking, planning, politics, product design, Science, skylines, spatial design, sprawl, States, Statistics, sustainability, technology, third places, tourism, transit, transportation, Travel, urban planning, zoning
Tagged blogging, cities, internet, Panethos, planning, posts, publications, social media, technology, web, weblogs, Word Press
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I’m tired of wimpy free wi-fi
Okay…one of my pet peeves here. I have had it with places that advertise they have free w-fi only to find out it is not working or so wimpy you could walk from here to Timbuktu and back before … Continue reading
Posted in consumerism, economics, technology, video
Tagged communications, internet, technology, web, wi-fi
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Sayonara to using Slashdot
When Reddit went down recently because of problems with the Amazon cloud, I thought I would spend the time searching out other similar sharing websites. I came across Slashdot. Though more techie oriented it seemed like a good site to … Continue reading
Freedom on the net – ranking 37 nations
A recently released study by Freedom House ranks 37 nations on their internet freedom. Below is a description of the criteria used to rank the countries. Ratings are determined through an examination of three broad categories: obstacles to access, limits … Continue reading
