Archive | July, 2009
Communications: Thinking about a better way
“We do so much but no one knows about it. We have to do a better job of telling our story.” I've heard this again and again. So, why's it so hard? I've come to suspect that part of it has to do with the structure of communications within organizations. The centralized structure is a problem. We need to figure out how to make a distributed model work.
Continue reading...Kim Crawford Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc
30. July 2009
This stuff tastes like flowers, but it's not sweet. Their website describes it this way: "Lifted aromatics of tropical fruits combined with the traditional nettle and herbaceous aromas of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc." Yeah whatever. Blah, blah, blah. Flowers, I tell you!
Continue reading...Tim Hwang at Participation Camp: Can computer games increase citizen engagement?
21. July 2009
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Tim Hwang looks like a super cool guy. And he's not just cool because Joi Ito took his portrait. Nope. Most important? He founded ROFLCon, the internet celebrity conference. Or maybe it's his work at Harvard. Or maybe this awesome talk on video games and citizen engagement. Hmmmm, hard to decide!
Continue reading...Russel Banks, Sarah Cole
20. July 2009
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Patrick on Miette’s podcast, reading Sarah Cole, by Russel Banks. Ugly is beautiful.
Continue reading...Les Vins de Vienne: Crozes-Hermitage, 2000
20. July 2009
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Yeah, I know. Supposed to be writing about communications, technology, social change. How you can save the world. Not today. News of the day is this wine made from syrah grapes. Crozes-Hermitage, 2000. From Les Vins de Vienne, Cuilleron-Gaillard-Villard.
Continue reading...Darin Barney, One Nation Under Google
19. July 2009
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Darin Barney, One Nation Under Google: Citizenship in the Technological Republic
Continue reading...James Joyce, The Dead
19. July 2009
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Hugh McGuire reads James Joyce’s The Dead.
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Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Disguised” for The New Yorker’s monthly reading and conversation with Deborah Treisman. Englander’s voice couldn’t be more perfect.
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Early in his career, professor Mark Rowlands had two loves: philosophy and Brenin, a wolf he was forced to bring along to his lectures. Through their relationship, Rowlands started examining his work and life. Listen on CBC’s Ideas, via EarIdeas.
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Every month, The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, hosts a reading and conversation with a well-known writer. August 2009 featured Joshua Ferris reading George Saunders’s “Adams.” The rhythm is magnificent.
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- Innovation Grounds 1.0
- Open research, open data, open development
- One-dollar books and why reading history matters
- Collaborative consumption
- Note from Seattle
- Create an open access repository
- Make music in the kitchen, the back seat of the car, wherever
- Policy & Technology: Edward Tufte’s keynote for Tech@State's Data Visualization event
- Using mobile technology to collect data
- Robert Bonardi: Christine, I greatly enjoyed the use of the map for visualizing (sorry about the "zeds")informati...
- Christine: Thanks for your comment. One note: This was not meant as epistemological treatise on innovation or o...
- DF Bunnell: There is a tendency for every generation to not only think, but genuinely believe that we just, some...
- Chris Coward: Here's a library getting in on the action http://bit.ly/u4XDU2...
- Chris Coward: Excellent work! I like the four dimensions and the characteristics you list. One point to underscore...
- Wayan: My big takeaway was Joel's startling statistic that +90% of all stock management in healthcare is vo...
- Christine: If you want to practice ...
- Alex: so, now pleasure goeth before a fall? that's not supposed to be the way things go!...
- Dani: Oh so good to read you like this! What a life of luxury you lead!! Well deserved I say....
- Christine: Along the same lines... Julien tweeted this ...
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