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725 posts on careers, communication, technology and civic life, since 2005.
I just finished reading Kurt Vonnegurt's Man Without A Country . At about 140 pages it was a quick read. I knocked it off in the last week. I did not know whether to laugh or to cry at times. They say "With age comes privilege" well, Vonnegut doesn't pull any punches here, he calls it…
I just returned from my trip to Amsterdam. The trip was primarily for CivicActions to have what we called an “off-site” which is kind of funny because we don't have a “site” so our 4 days spent on Amstelstraat would have better been described as an “on-site”. We engaged in the typical retreat exercises: trust…
Just saw this on Common Dreams (originally from the LA Times SUV Drivers in Paris Get Wind Knocked Out of Them A clandestine group lets air out of tires as a form of protest. The vehicles' owners are not amused. But five weeks after the clandestine crew of environmentalists launched a low-intensity…
[via Smart Mobs: Earthquake site ]: The website allows people in the region to register as "safe and well", either directly or through local Red Crescent staff, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement. Relatives can also consult the list of those who have registered and search for names.…
On primary night here in NYC I was doing dome back of the envelope cost per vote calculations. Well, with the help of Esther Greenbaum, I finally got down to business and ran the numbers. I am attaching my preliminary analysis. Feel free to tinker. My cost per vote is crude, net expenditures divided by…
[via Reason: Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business: A Reason debate featuring Milton Friedman, Whole Foods%u2019 John Mackey, and Cypress Semiconductor%u2019s T.J. Rodgers ]: The business model that Whole Foods has embraced could represent a new form of capitalism, one that more consciously works for the common good instead of depending solely on the invisible…
I just thought of this: When you label an email "Todo" in Thunderbird, it should show up in your "Task List" in Sunbird (the mozilla calendar ap)
File this under "Really scary" [via Bush: God Told Me to Invade Iraq ]: former Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath says Mr Bush told him and Mahmoud Abbas, former prime minister and now Palestinian President: "I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And…
First saw this over on SmartMOBs [via Networking: A Special Section – New York Times ]: in the next wave [of technology inovation and adoption], companies are embracing the potential of networked computing to let workers share their knowledge more efficiently as they nurture new ideas, new products and new ways to digitally automate all…
Identity 2.0 Gathering: Getting to the Promised Land by Kaliya Hamlin — The "identity gang" (Doc Searls, Phil Windley, Drummond Reed, and Kaliya Hamlin) has been meeting informally at tech conferences during the past year, but the time has arrived for diving deeper into the different proposed protocols (and the philosophies behind how their…