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Distributing the Future
I found this podcast, Distributing the Future via dorkbot, I think. Anyway, I listened to the Attention episode yesterday, and it is relevant to us and the way we work, and the work that we do. I think that everyone should listen to this particular episode, and I am hopeful about this podcast as a…
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Face recognition on your cameraphone?
This is by way of World Changing, Jamais Cascio quotes from an article in New Scientist Technology: The concept… is based on a central server that registers details sent by the phone when the photo is taken. These include the nearest cellphone mast, the strength of the call signal and the time the photo was…
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I’m a Scrum Master!
As of 5pm Friday, I received my certification as a Scrum Master. What’s that? Well Scrum is a form of project management that focuses on self managing groups and agile/iterative development. Read more about Scrum.
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Henri Poole and Mike Gifford Talk About Open Business Models
While at the Web Of Change conference in September of 2005 I spent a fair amount of time talking to Mike Gifford of Open Concept Consulting about CivicActions and our business model and how it can be a model for new open source web development consultancies. Upon our returns to the real world, Mike wrote…
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Ever read the MySpace Terms?
A friend just pointed out the The MySpace Terms 6. Proprietary Rights in Content on MySpace.com. 6.1 By displaying or publishing (“posting”) any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) on or through the Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and…
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Trees for the future: carbon offset programs
If you have been following my blog, you have seen that I am feeling guilty about air travel and the environmental impact. I wrote about this earlier and got some good feedback in the comments from Rolf which lead me to Trees for the Future where I just bought $100 worth of trees to offset…
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An Inconvenient Truth
Via WorldChanging: The movie An Inconvenient Truth will open at the end of May. Participant Productions is getting people to pledge to see the film when it opens in their market (at the film’s website ClimateCrisis.net). The ClimateCrisis site also has a nifty carbon footprint calculator. The Calculator got me feeling really guilty about air…
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Laptop theft and data security
Yesterday, as I was preparing for another leg of my rock star tour, I heard this segment on marketplace about data security and laptop theft. It is worth a listen. Here is the summary: Imagine someone steals a laptop from your bank or your phone company. It happens more than you might think, and that…
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Getting information to consumers about the products they buy
WorldChanging ran a great post on the GreenScanner, a public database of consumer opinions about the environmental accountability of over 600,000 products. Basically the Green Scanner is a website that allows a user to enter the UPC from the bar code label on a product and get information about the product. Green scanner focuses on…
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We’re made out of corn!!!
This is a great story from Science Friday about corn. The author of “Omnivores Dilemma”. Corn is in almost everything we eat, and our carbon is from corn. A bushel of corn is 56 pounds of 20% of oil consumption is for food growing, more than for transportation! Corn is over produced. And the government…