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A Declaration of Independence from E-Mail by Luis Suarez
You might have read with interest as I did I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip (NY Times, June 29).I did not know its author Luis Suarez until then.He confirms his Declaration of Independence from E-Mail via his blog ELSUA on July 4th. He addresses head on the skepticism...Five-year-olds to study Shakespeare
Students in primary and secondary school will be taught Shakespeare in England. Each school will get a free copy of Shakespeare: The Animated Tales on DVD. "School children as young as five will be...Iran Daily: A Blow to Sanctions
"Iran, Pakistan and India will sign a deal this month to build a natural gas pipeline to help feed the subcontinent’s desperate need for energy, indeed a major blow to illegal US-led sanctions against Tehran and a defeat for US influence in South Asia. The $7.5 billion...Make your voice heard...We Think and Mass Creativity
The other night as I was driving home I had the chance to catch Peter Day's Interview of Charles Leadbeater (Global Business, BBC World)... His new book, We Think explores 'the power of mass creativity', its benefits and shortcomings.He does not want it to be confused with...NZ research is leading way to better foods, health
This is an extraordinary report from "a new field of science" on how genes "predict" their future while in the womb.–Dr Andrew West says, “Scientists have shown that a fetus takes cues from its life before birth, such as the availability of nutrients, to predict what its...Seasonal flu starts in Asia -- study
Next time you go down with that nasty flu--hopefully not the H5N1 strain--think about the thousands of kilometers those viruses (what ever happenedto 'virii'?) have traveled to get to your system. " Viruses that originate in East and Southeast Asia migrate around the...
Crowdsourcing the Writing Process
Last year, I had the opportunity to participate in the experimental 'meta-crowdsourcing' projectAssignment Zero, with Jay Rosen, Wired, and the folks at NewAssignment.net, which undertook to explore all of the ways... Cover It Live: Live Blogging in a Snap
Cover It Live is a simple tool that bloggers--pros and amateurs alike--can use to add real-time interactivity to their posts. A number of newspapers are using it, and all it requires is simple Javascript added to your blog. There are many examples throughout the Web.As this...Hip-Hop's 'Big' Leap Into Ballet
Why is is that when hip-hop artists dabble in other artistic mediums and forms, the 'story' always seems to end up being about them ('8 Mile' comes to mind). Not only that, it's always the heart-wrenching Portrait of...Suffering from Recipe Block: Visit 'Open Source Food': Delight your Eyes...
In the same way that writers sometime stare at a blank page and cannot seem to get going, you are sitting in your kitchen pondering what to put on the menu today.You might just be plain bored with your usual dishes and looking for new flavors or a small twist on them. One... Penguin Using Google Maps as it Moves from "Book Publishing" to "Storytelling"
Noteworthy. I'm looking up some links from the 1990s with hypertext novels and such and will write more about this. This is interesting because Penquin has been experimental in the past. Shane Richmond says the story itself is a bit weak, but it is an intriguing idea to... Is Firing Someone by E-Mail Less Painful
In the last panel I attended at South by Southwest, Working over the web- Managing distributed staffs, Andrew Huff of Gapers Block and Jeff Robbins of Lullabot shared what they learned about managing work relationships over the web either across town or in different timezones.Archidemo - Architecture in Metaverse
Japanese creator team "Architecture in Metaverse" had developed "Archidemo" Project in Second Life. http://archidemo.blogspot.com/ "Archidemo" is experimental demonstration and research for the possibility of the...Lotusphere 2008: An International Gathering for a BALD Event
Orlando, FL (Jan 19, 2008) - Tomorrow, thousands of business executives, technology professionals, vendors and media will be gathering in Orlando, FL (USA) for Lotusphere 2008. This is the 15th year for this... Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die.
Stop the insanity. Stop it now!"It’s frothy out there in web round 2, assuming we’re in round 2, and all those bubbles really add to the effect. Each day, I see more than one new speech bubble logo. Am I...
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