September 28, 2008 – 8:52 am
Baghdad (International) Green Zone by James Gordon
Does this sound familiar?
Jane works for a company that is fairly successful. The product it produces is beer and has moved from being a local favorite to a regional favorite to a favorite in pubs across the entire U.S. Jane’s role is customer service and she takes calls from, [...]
September 20, 2008 – 11:01 pm
Some stuff I’m reading this week…
I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com
Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he [...]
September 17, 2008 – 2:38 pm
Details:
HeroCamp
(wiki)
October 23-26, 2008
Caroline Collective, 4820 Caroline Street, Houston, TX
Cost: free (but we’re looking for sponsors to keep it that way!)
REWARDS = massive!
September 12, 2008 – 5:02 pm
Yay! Totally stoked that Rebooting America is now available for sale, an anthology I worked on with the good peeps at the Personal Democracy Forum. Rebooting includes forty-four essays by political and digital luminaries including Craig Newmark (of craigslist), Esther Dyson, Joe Trippi, Newt Gingrich and many others — including my slightly provocative essay, [...]
September 6, 2008 – 10:56 pm
Some stuff I’m reading this week…
Firefox to surpass IE? Yes, but only among the geeks | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News
In sum, if the web designers stick with IE because they have to, why are so many dumping their duty and using Firefox [...]
September 4, 2008 – 5:33 pm
Understandably, I received a wee bit of pushback on my post on incentives because I didn’t clarify what I meant by incentives. While reading the latest issue of Good Magazine, it became utterly clear that there are incentives offered up towards reaching positive goals that are incredibly damaging.
In the feature article entitled School Wars, [...]