January 2012
9 posts
Bruton without locked-in syndrome wants right to... →
87% Of Connected Consumers Prefer Websites &... →
Welcome to the connected consumer. This person most likely has a tablet and smartphone, and is constantly connected to their friends via Facebook. Today, more than 60% of 25-34 year-olds (Gen-Y) own a smartphone. One in three online consumers will buy a tablet by 2014. That’s a lot to digest at once, right? A new survey from Zmags investigates the connected consumer and their digital...
“In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but...”
– Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
by Bill Clinton
December 2011
13 posts
““The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the...”
– Paul Krugman, Dec. 30, NY Times
Since the Galaxy Nexus is the supposed to be the phone that sets the standard for all other Android phones for the next year or so, I decided to give it the chance it deserves. More than two weeks ago, I switched off my iPhone and started using the Galaxy Nexus exclusively.
To be completely honest, there hasn’t been one instance where I hit a wall and said to myself, “If only I had...
“The primary aim of education is to serve as an equalizing instrument for...”
Education in Finland →
“The primary aim of education is to serve as an equalizing instrument for society,” he said.
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November 2011
4 posts
WatchOne of the several great segments on the new NBC newsmagazine show, Rock Center, my sister’s new project.
October 2011
9 posts
“The truth is that this President has done a good... →
kateoplis:
“The truth is that this President has done a good job in what has been one of the most difficult periods of modern history. He saved the economy from ruin (until the Tea Party took over Congress) with a stimulus that was as large as possible given the political realities, presided over a stock…
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“OK, you have fought hard to deny or challenge the realities of climate change,...”
– ‘An Open Letter to Climate Change Deniers and Skeptics: The Final [Chocolate] Straw’ by Peter Gleick
No more CHOCOLATE?!
(via scipsy)
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WatchI’ve reblogged this here — since this Tumblr site has the Disqus commenting system enabled at the bottom of the page— to give Adam Greenfield a place to respond.
he wrote —
I’d just like to know how you expect to have a “conversation” about cities if you don’t permit people without Tumblrs to comment on your posts. If you want to take a snarky...
September 2011
18 posts
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“I can’t think of a time when a party’s economic doctrine has been so completely...”
– Phony Fear Factor | Paul Krugman | NYTimes.com
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I, For One, Welcome our new Social Data Overlords →
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Stowe Boyd: Tumblr Is Crushing Wordpress, And... →
stoweboyd:
Richard McManus shows the numbers for Tumblr and Wordpress. Tumblr is growing much, much faster than Wordpress, and then tries to explain it:
The two services offer different things, so this is somewhat of an apples and oranges comparison. Wordpress.com is a fully-fledged hosted blogging…
Putting Enterprise 2.0 into Context
| Andrew... →
Three recent posts have done a great job of showing where we are in the spread of Enterprise 2.0 – the use of emergent social software platforms by companies to get work done.
The first is Laurie Buczek’s “The Big Failure of Enterprise 2.0 Social Business.” I know Laurie, and know that she’s been working tirelessly in the trenches for several years to bring 2.0 tools, approaches, and...
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“I don’t want to get to the end of my life
and find that I have just lived the...”
– Diane Ackerman, and today’s Fresh Tracks, Inc.™ AM Fuel
“We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So...”
– Andy Goldsworthy
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MIT’s Free Urban Planning Software Will Help Build The Cities Of The Future - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/fastcompany/headlines/~3/yn491qNCMjo/open-source-program-released-to-redesigning-tomorrows-cities