The antithesis of holiday cheer: “Collapse”
“It’s not that Bernie Madoff was a pyramid scheme… the whole economy is a pyramid scheme!”
Business, Community, Economy
Community
Community, Events
Adoption Rocks!
Next month, for International Adoption Month, The Long Center for the Performing Arts has a benefit concert and celebration called
Community, Consciousness, Social Media
Safety first
(Wrote most of this on the road earlier this week…) Had an unintentional overnight stay in Providence RI September 11,
Community, Consciousness, Economy, Events
Happiness Is Mobile Loaves and Fishes
Mark Horvath (aka @hardlynormal), who is an advocate for the diverse and generally invisible homeless population, is in Austin hanging
Community, Technology
Crowdsourcery in Austin
Several local web thinkers met recently with the IT staff from the City of Austin to discuss a best approach
Community, Social Media, Sustainability, Technology
Technoutopia socialism
Kevin Kelly talks about “social media” and social-ism, saying “the frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the
Community
Happiness with sauce
I went with Dave Evans to Woolridge Park in downtown Austin today, where Mobile Loaves and Fishes and Stubbs Bar-B-Q
Business, Community, Sustainability
Mega-Regions, nouveau rail, and connection
Richard Florida on Mega-Regions and High Speed Rail: “…fordism has come smack up against its limits. It’s cheaper to produce
Community, Futures
Thinking about education
Jamais Cascio ponders education, saying first that we need more Sids than Andys, a Toy Story reference. Sid was, according
Business, Community, Design
That buzzing sound…
Geographers are researching buzz, according to this New York Times article (thanks to the phenomenal Oliver Markley for the pointer).
Community, Consciousness
Humans and tools
From Kevin Kelly: an overview of human history and some thoughts about the relevance of language as the original social
Community, Futures, Politics
Purpose of America
Roy Spence and Haley Rushing say, at Huffington Post, It’s Time to Renew the Purpose of America. This resonates well
Body, Community, Science, Social Media, Sustainability
Participatory Medicine
In a retreat today and tomorrow with founders of a participatory medicine movement at Cook’s Branch near Houston. In participatory