Sound Of Sirens

Ok, this is about the media and its functions. Again: I do not claim to be an expert, call me a generalist, however, let’s see how far we get.

I’ll start with a quote of a beautiful essay by Donella Meadows, a professor, biophysicist, systems analyst, organic farmer, author, journalist and inspiration in the movement for sustainability. The essay is called ‘Dancing with Systems‘ and this particular part is about ‘Honouring and protecting information.’

A decision maker can’t respond to information he or she doesn’t have, can’t respond accurately to information that is inaccurate, can’t respond in a timely way to information that is late. I would guess that 99 percent of what goes wrong in systems goes wrong because of faulty or missing information.

If I could, I would add an Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information. You can drive a system crazy by muddying its information streams. You can make a system work better with surprising ease if you can give it more timely, more accurate, more complete information.

It’s all about bookmarking these days… now the internet has FFFFound!, which is into pictures only.

It’s a from-designers-for-designers project and as you can see the collection’s average quality is quite well. At least one reason to join is the terrfic Logo (to the left), isn’t it?

FFFFound!’s unpretentious (though neat) interface is build in japanese and english. Unfortunately the software is still a closed public beta, but you can contact us for invitation codes!