At last I got round to finishing my blog posts – Part 4 and 5 of Sustainable Landscape Architecture Series. Although I believe that standards such Sustainable Sites and certification such as LEED AP can contribute to advancing landscape architecture and creating sustainable landscapes they also become a crutch that we point to and say […]
Who pays for the data? Why websites will start to charge
More and more data is being produced and consumed on the internet everyday as people become more mobile and more social. This data is paid for by the consumer to their provider whether it’s an ISP or their mobile carrier they pay for data download. Vast amounts of data we consume everyday comes from free […]
Cory Doctorow | carpool | science fiction | creative commons | ebooks | computers
Cory Doctorow interviewed by Robert Llewellyn makes some interesting insights into the word of publishing, ebooks, computers, science fiction and the web. Great video about 26 minutes long.
Businesses are treating social media like a webpage in the mid-1990’s
Social media is currently in the same place webpages where in the mid-1990’s where businesses where putting up their business webpage and expecting people to come and start buying. It wasn’t until businesses realised they needed to promote their website and integrate it with their existing marketing that their webpages started generating emails, calls and […]
Shanghai starts promoting Precast Concrete in Construction
Nearly every building, landscape and piece of construction in China uses insitu concrete (on-site poured) concrete. There are many issues with on-site concrete include Pollution: On site pollution, waste, noise, trucks, on-site mixers, soil compaction, water pollution Inefficient Usage: Concrete goes off (bad) quickly if not used within 20-30 minutes, transport needs to be fast […]