Category: Social
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Can Art be Games?
The Musée de Louvre is a place in Paris. Every year over 8 million people visit the place, often to view art. Now, that’s not as many people as are currently subscribing to World of Warcraft or anything, but it’s still a lot.
Mirroring the old argument… why not start the last Friday in 2012 that way?
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Why Marketing Internal Audit is Important
Why Marketing Internal Audit is Important: Four Rules:
I have had more than one person question me about why I spend so much time reading, writing, and talking about marketing and promotion. Implied in this question is that auditors are wasting their time when they spend too much time in these areas.… Continued
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The Elegant Email
For me, the amount of email that arrives is inversely proportionate to my amount of free time. This means the less time I have to read mail, the more mail that arrives. Greater minds than mine have attempted to tackle this unfortunate time management situation, so I’m going to keep it simple.… Continued
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Offline: avatars and alts
In Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Johnny Mnemonic, Hackers, and just about every other chilling pseudo-cyberpunk vision of the future, there are two worlds. One is physical, where Real Death is possible, and where you choke on the pollution of New Tokyo-Beijing or whatever.… Continued
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Def Con XX: twenty years of hacker evolution
Def Con XX: twenty years of hacker evolution:
Twenty years ago, the world of consumer technology was a very different place. In the early 1990’s, cell phones were still expensive devices slowly making their way out of Gordon Gekko’s high-rise office and into the hands of well-heeled customers like, for example, Zach Morris.… Continued
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The one big thing that newspaper visionaries didn’t foresee
The one big thing that newspaper visionaries didn’t foresee:
It’s easy to forget sometimes that the world wide web has been around for more than two decades now, or that it has caused massive and ongoing disruption of almost every form of content from books and newspapers to music and movies.… Continued
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Addiction to Familiar Systems
Addiction to Familiar Systems:
The fear of making the “wrong” choice actually makes the familiar, mastered PHP more attractive.
I guess that also depends if you’re more a stable or volatile type.
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Stables and Volatiles
I believe a healthy company that wants to continue to grow and invent needs to equally invest in both their Stables and their Volatiles.
Your Stables are there to remind you about reality and to define process whereby large groups of people can be coordinated to actually get work done.… Continued
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Are Enterprise Social Networks the Cure for Information Overload?
Are Enterprise Social Networks the Cure for Information Overload?:
Many organizations are implementing enterprise social networks to improve communication between their employees, customers, and partners.
If only it was as simple as that…