ive been thinking a lot recently about focus and dealing with many projects at once. ive heard many people say that it is difficult if not impossible to be 100 committed to more than one endeavor at any time. furthermore the more stuff you have on your plate the more everything simultaneously suffers. in an opportunity dense world not everything has equal value. indeed i c......
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author aldon hynes friday i watched the stock markets plunge yet again only to rally dive rally and dive with the dow closing down another 128 points. i read more reports of gov. palin trying to cast doubt on sen. obama because he had served on a board along side a former member of the weather underground as well as a former nixon aide. the project was funded in large part by a former an......
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its hard to deny twitter as a major player in online and offline community building. the austin tech community has really embraced the platform since sxswi 2007 and jelly in austin along with conjunctured conjunctured owe much of their success through word of mouth marketing as traveled through twitter. last tuesday mike chapman mikechapman gave a great pres......
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in our ongoing conversation here about about the meaning of the internet for the individual is that what were talking about here carol id like to play a bit with carols last two blog entries ikiaqqivik means internet and traveling through layers and identity twobit wit memes and zen . lets see what i can come up with. the internet more and more i......
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from jl erika whiteway just emailed me that carmen hermosillo aka humdog died. i looked for an obit and found a post by my former fringeware partner paco nathan. among those who formed the core of fringeware he says humdog becomes the first of us to go to our ancestors. tiffany lee brown reports that therell be a memorial service in second life tomorro......
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plos business plos is simply going through the natural progression of a startup. it has solved the first puzzle making something people want which is open access journals. tags plos openaccess publishing businessculture businessmodel academia culturalnorms dare webpage somebody was asking about this in a conversation. ed tags dare......
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if you chase two rabbits both will escape. let that anonymous quotation set the tone. now heres a simple set of questions for you as i try desperately vainly manfully to get back into the flow of things after a delightful holiday weekend with my family what if you stopped multitasking altogether what if your company out lawed822 1 multitasking for example by......
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its the second day of the future of news conference in princeton and david robinson kicked things off with a talk on attention distraction and information glut.......
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heres evidence of conceptual shift 2 shifting towards a knowledge ecology . clay shirkys recently released book called here comes everybody the power of organizing without organizations is making a big splash and for all of the right reasons. in this video from the berkman center clay talks about how ridiculously easy group forming is opening up whole n......
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today at sxsw interactive jon lebkowsky moderated a great panel called visualizing sustainability . ill write something up about this panel in the next few days but meanwhile here 29 mb .mp3 is an okquality recording made with my laptop. i expect a recording of better quality will become available at some point. how can we visualize the city of the future and creat......
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my travel from wisconsin to texas went with fewer than expected hitches and im now camped out at jon lebkowskys flat in austin here for south by southwest interactive. i head back home on wednesday and thankfully have few travel plans for awhile thereafter. talks for those of you attending sxswi wanting to say hi you can be certain to find me at my two panels visualizing......
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