links for 2009-06-12

"You only need to go online. Blogging creatives post constantly about how to dress, hiss snidely about the sartorial inelegance of their creative directors. Offline they’re even bitchier, each one exerting a normalising fashion peer-pressure equivalent to five 16-year-old girls. Is it any wonder that, almost to a man, modern creatives assume another, sadder uniform? The Converse trainers, the sweatshirts and ringspun denim, the over-designed T-⁠shirts. It’s fine in your twenties, but after that it starts to look a bit unsure and furtive"

"It used to be that you'd buy a pencil just to get the bag" with an up-market label

“What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”