Thinking about memory, association, and identification

November 18, 2011

A lesson in memory. I showed up ten minutes early for a meeting this morning at Sweetish Hill, paid for coffee, took a cup and filled it half caf, half decaf, found  a table for two and hung my sturdy black leather jacket on the back of my chair. My Nikon was in the left [...]

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Taking leave of our consensus

November 3, 2011

Tree Bressen, guest-posting at Dave Pollard’s “How to Save the World” blog, has a helpful summary of consensus process mistakes and barriers, and how to avoid them. This is a followup to Pollard’s earlier post, “When Consensus Doesn’t Work.” In my experience, a good first step is to admin that consensus is hard, in fact [...]

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What you really need to know about the state of the world

October 31, 2011

Tying a few things together here, starting with the mysterious 8-foot Lego Man that “washed up” on a Florida beach. The front of his “shirt” says “No real than you are,” and the reverse side has the name “Ego Leonard.” Ego has a website based in the Netherlands, but nobody knows how he got to [...]

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Apple’s convergent television: “I finally cracked it!”

October 24, 2011

We’ve been hearing for two decades now about television/computer/Internet convergence. Televisions sets today are advanced digital products, and we connect computers and specialized set-top boxes to ‘em, but they’re still primarily display devices. In his biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson writes that Jobs ““very much wanted to do for television sets what he had [...]

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Call me Trim Tab

October 24, 2011

We’re packing for a move, and when you move it shakes out all the dust and skittering spiders in your head, and thoughts ordered and disordered collide and melt into each other. There’s an insecurity you feel when all your physical analogs are packed in boxes ready for the movers. I took a break today [...]

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Contact Summit: “It’s time to take back the net”

October 22, 2011

This week, on October 20, a diverse assortment of forward-thinking, Internet-savvy, solutions-oriented people gathered in New York City for Contact Summit, a project-focused event organized by Doug Rushkoff and Venessa Miemis. I was originally planning to attend, and was plugged into the small team of organizers. I couldn’t make the event, but have been available [...]

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Hypocrisy

October 18, 2011

 

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Go deeper

October 18, 2011

A couple of @jonl tweets re #OWS: Revolutions won at a superficial level take us into similar power games because we haven’t addressed fundamental issues that are deeply embedded in our thinking. “A man will renounce any pleasures you like but will not give up his suffering.” “Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and [...]

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Forward thinking about the competitive workplace

October 14, 2011

Earlier this week I attended a breakfast panel sponsored by Gensler (http://www.gensler.com), an architecture, design, planning and consultation firm that focuses (among other things) on effective workplace environments, consulting for companies like Google, HP, Yahoo and Facebook. The title of the panel was “Designing your workplace for a competitive edge.” Here’s my set of notes [...]

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What #OccupyWallStreet is about

October 10, 2011

#OccupyWallStreet is just the sort of movement I’ve been expecting. It’s a true grassroots movement catalyzed and sustained by social media (which is probably crucial, as I explained in an earlier post). While there is an overriding agenda about economic justice, OWS represents a diversity of interests and concerns. It’s a working class phenomenon, but [...]

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Occupy ABC’s This Week

October 9, 2011

Update: link to a transcript of La Greca on This Week at DailyKos DailyKos blogger Jesse LaGreca was eloquent and focused on ABC’s This Week this morning. I want to post the conversation about #OccupyWallStreet featuring Jesse, and come back a little later with my own thoughts. To the question, “What is your plan? Are [...]

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RIP Insanely Great Steve Jobs

October 6, 2011

When Steve Jobs left Apple recently, what seemed like premature obituaries started appearing, so he had the unusual opportunity to see the kind of appreciation usually published postmortem. It’s too bad he’s not around to see the best tribute, boingboing’s retro Apple interface redesign (above). The phrase often associated with Apple and Jobs was “insanely [...]

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Alex Steffen at SXSW Eco: Carbon Zero

October 4, 2011

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Neal Stephenson on Innovation Starvation

October 3, 2011

“The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rules. It’s the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments. Too bad we’ve forgotten how to do it.” [Link]  

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