By David Foster Wallace.

My friend Alberto from UCLA reports on a paper hypothesizing that people with connections across 'structural holes' are more prone to having good ideas. I regard inter-disciplinary activity a must for innovation. Interesting stuff.

This is a fundamentally flawed strategy for creating secure online communities and will backfire, although perhaps not in a highly visible manner (slow defection).

Check the audio clip.

Details on the scaling of Myspace's infrastructure.

Architectural proposal for this Russian oil giant. Check the photo gallery. At a glance i knew which proposal was from OMA. The rest are pretty repulsive. Foster and others walked off the jury and the project was awarded to one of the worst proposals. A blow to functional, socially informed architecture.

Great discussion of second life from an architectural perspective.