Weekly Filet #150: This Person is Not Available in Your Reality. And more.
Picture this: You walk though the city on a sunny afternoon. One thing is a little strange. Some people and buildings are blurred, just like you know it from Google Street View. Why is that? Some are blurred because you chose not to be bothered with them. Others the state has blurred for your convenience or because you're not eligible to see them. And then, there are blurred things you can unlock by paying a fee, because they are part of a freemium reality. Scary? Yes. Far-fetched? Not so sure. When thinking about the prospects of «augmented reality», we should probably think about «diminished reality», too.
→ Seeing as a Service (Medium)
Olympic sports like you've never seen them before. Brilliant work by the NYT interactive team on Sochi 2014.
→ Sochi 2014: Interactive Stories (New York Times)
It’s time to rethink our nightmares about surveillance. A great read about tear gas and Twitter and surveillance by seduction.
→ Is the Internet good or bad? Yes. (Matter)
Beautiful visualisations of the weather in 35 cities around the globe, day by day.
→ Weather Radials
Kill your adjectives, HE told you. Hemingway writing editor «makes your writing bold and clear».
→ Hemingway App
To celebrate the 150th issue of the Weekly Filet, a new collection from the archive: Think Different. Small tricks and big ideas on how to do things a little different in life. Some call it lifehacking, let's just call it fresh ideas how to tackle things in life.