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A 2.0 editorial comic?
Check out the “Surviving the world” blog, a static visual humor, like the old-fashioned kind, but new. A funny M.I.T. graduate named Dante Shepherd and his dog are responsible for it. I see it as more morph-y 2.0 creation–perhaps an exciting new aesthetic beginning. I used to get this sort of humor in editorial cartoons,…
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While puzzling over motivation, I stumbled on the great Swiss blog
LLLIC, by Martin Raske, the IT guy who writes it. He quotes one of my favorite Frenchmen, Antoine de Saint-Exupery: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” In…
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Whose data are they, anyway?
Barack’s Whitehouse is going 2.0. And to some extent, he’s bringing some of the rest of government with it. Now that American data is available to the American people at (what else?) data.gov, We The People’s grip on the handle of government power gets tighter. What will we Americans do with such knowledge? Perhaps come…
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"Leveraging" myself in time of great change
It’s a blessing that I have the freedom to step back and choose which way I want to go at a time of amazing social change. What if I were locked into a job or an industry and couldn’t adapt to the technological change going on? I would be much less happy, I think. I…
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Sports may yet save human civilization
It has been said that “sports take a human necessity and make a game of it.” * So soccer takes the necessity of human movement, role-distribution, teamwork, and goal-achievement and puts it on a field with rules so well that it is the world’s most popular sport. * So baseball takes the skill of stalking…
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What moves in when newspapers blow away?
They have supplied relatively reliable information for 300 years or so, have been our public eyes and ears, our only society-wide means of knowing ourselves to make better collective decisions. What will replace newspapers, critic and guardian of democracies, when pulp is too expensive and the audience gets its news digitally? What will replace the…
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Good old Adobe Reader–now in web 2.0!
What we see in Adobe’s latest roll out is the transformation of a free one-way tool (a commonplace of the first decade or so of the web) into an empowering, collaborative, and thus much more useful application. Maybe they were spurred on by Google Apps, which have offered many of the same features for the…
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In the spring of the year, flowers bloom, animals mate, and men's thoughts…
…turn to war. Millenia have not changed war‘s purposes, only its means. Each war presents a unique set of variables–the enemy, the terrain, and the political setting–that military leaders must either adapt to or lose. Regardless of a war‘s aims, the side that can better master the new means of war will wind up the…
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And with all the information in the world, what shall we do?
Even though there is more financial–specifically banking and insurance–information out there, I fear there is a moral feedback loop when it comes to our reporting on our the banking industry in its throes of–what? death? it sheds violently billions of dollars and perhaps millions of jobs (hence, millions of people). What I mean to say…
The Wikiness 