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| | DAN PONTEFRACT JUNE 18, 2012  The Connected Culture You're reading fresh content from Dan Pontefract at Brave New Org: If you haven’t noticed, I’m a big fan of trying to create simplicity from chaos. | | DAVID WEINBERGER JUNE 18, 2012 The Famous NJ Turnpike Witch Most fiction is crap. Often the plot is arbitrary or unsurprising. More often, the you can see the author’s plans behind the writing: The author needs a brainy nerd, a wisecracking minor character, a mysterious presence, someone with the key to the jalopy. Whatever. The characters, the plot, the entire mess feels constructed. like Brad a lot. | | | | | | | |
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ANDY MCAFEE | MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012  What Kind of FOO am I?
A little while back I put borrowed camping gear (thanks, Steve and Lee !) into a rental car and drove from San Francisco to Sebastopol to pitch my tent at FOO Camp , Tim O’Reilly’s annual jamboree of those-doing-cool-things-with-technology. Learning about automated writing from Narrative Science’s Kris Hammond. sure did. MORE >> -
ROSS DAWSON | MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012  Big moves at Fairfax: The global extinction of newspapers moves closer
Today’s ‘Fairfax of the Future’ announcement from Australia’s second largest newspaper publisher Fairfax is massive news in Australia, and very significant in a global media context. Click on image to download full framework. Here are just a few of the important issues and perspectives emerging from Fairfax’s moves. MORE >> -
NINE SHIFT | MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012 Driverless Car Insane
Only the Americans could be so stupid as to propose driverless cars. All part of Google’s ongoing attempt to destroy its own motto, “Don’t be evil.”. The driverless-car more evidence of the desperation that accompanies the collapse of an era. Here’s my top 5 reasons why the driverless-car is insanity: 1.Destruction of the planet. Why pay for them. MORE >> -
DAN PINK | MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012  Emotionally intelligent signage amid the meatballs
Last week, Mrs. Danpink.com and one of our kids ventured to the IKEA store in College Park, Maryland. They returned with a hard-to-assemble bookshelf, a ginormous bag of Swedish meatballs, and a great example of emotionally intelligent signage from the store cafeteria. Emotionally intelligent signage MORE >> -
PSYBLOG | MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012  The Merest Thought of Money Replenishes Self-Control
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." Seneca. The Roman philosopher Seneca knew the benefits of self-control, as do modern psychologists: ".self-control 2004 ). From: How to Improve Your Self Control ). I've discussed many strategies for improving self-control in: Top 10 Self-Control Strategies. Image credit: Eric Gjerde. MORE >>
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