Another great post on Bokardo, this one about how the term "information architecture" has become too broad to have much meaning anymore.

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Found this clip in the new Blue Dot video rollup. Nice! I'd never heard of the show "Sexy Beijing" but it's apparently a transplanted American talking about her experiences in Beijing. In this episode, she asks people on the streets about their "English names" with some pretty funny results.

I couldn't agree more...

An interesting and prescient piece by Eduardo Galeano, post-9/11 but prior to the Iraq invasion. See how much of this rings true now.

Quoted: Sigmund Freud had learned it from Jean-Martin Charcot: ideas can be implanted by hypnosis in the human mind. More than a century has gone by since then, and the technology of manipulation has made great strides. This is a colossal machine, the size of the planet, that orders us to repeat the messages it puts inside our heads. It’s a word-abusing machine.