Linkpile

• Struggling mall project wants (or wanted) to track shopping habits in exchange for profits: “Electronic tags attached to every item for sale and inside shoppers club cards carried by customers allow the mall to precisely track consumer shopping habits, right down to what items they pick up, which ones they put back, which ones they buy — and in what order. Brand makers receive access to all of the data and insights about consumers collected by the mall.” The mall’s funding is in trouble, so hard to say if it will happen. And somehow they wanted the brands to turn over all — yes all — of their profits in exchange for this data. Sounds like a bit of a nonstarter to me. But still. [Via Mark O. on the Consumed FB page.]
• BestofHallandOates.com: Rick Liebling, who has moved Eyecube to a new URL (rickliebling.com) on this example of “fan passion as brand extension.”
• Web Ecology’s study on Twitter in Iran: Examines “2,024,166 tweets.”
• Thinking is thinking: “We should be careful not to blame the tools for the kind of people we have become. (If Twitter went out of business tomorrow, many people’s discourse would still remain superficial and inane.).”
• Big demo planned outside Bastille: “The French revolutionaries somehow managed in 1789, without being able to tweet.” I’m glad somebody finally said this. It’s bothered me that so much discussion of social media and revolution has ignored the fact that revolutions of all kinds went on well before Twitter etc. came along. Via Rough Type.
• WWIII Propaganda Posters: “Loose Tweets Sink Fleets,” etc. Via Design Observer.

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