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- This Week’s Links on Ma.gnoliaOctober 5
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Some stuff I’m reading this week…
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Disaster Capitalism, State of Extortion
As the planet is rocked by multiple shocks, here’s a look at how disaster capitalists are reaping the benefits–leveraging the Iraq War, the push for arctic drilling and the global food crisis.Silicon Valley Rocks
Great idea for an event. Funds raised go to a school music program. Lotso fun!The Banality of Heroism
- Red Zone/Green ZoneSeptember 28
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Baghdad (International) Green Zone by James GordonDoes 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, mostly, happy customers every day, thanking her for producing a really great beer with a great taste and a solid heartfelt brand. One Monday morning, the companies executives round up all of the employees for a big meeting and tell them that, because of the great success thusfar, the board has decided to go more nationally aggressive with the company. The company is getting a boost in funding and will be hiring a whole bunch of new people to handle the expansion. Jane is excited. More customers equals more great phonecalls for her.
As they expand, things start to change…but not in the directions Jane thought they would. The biggest addition seems to be to the sales team - a group of beverage sales specialists. In order to help Jane out, they hire two other people, quite junior as part of her customer service staff. The sales team sticks to their own, which baffles Jane a little. Th
- This Week’s Links on Ma.gnoliaSeptember 21
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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 does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye.Apartment Therapy Chicago | Mini Pug + Mini Eames Lounge = Small and Cool?
Mini Pug + Mini Eames Lounge = Small and Cool?Raptr: What are you playing?
Raptr’s single goal is to change the way you play and discover games and share y - All about HeroCampSeptember 17
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Details:
HeroCamp
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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!
- Rebooting AmericaSeptember 12
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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, “Who Needs Elected Officials Anyway?“! Each essay has a unique central idea but all are infused with the hopes of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government for the Internet Age.
Rebooting America is more than a book, it is an “open source” experiment in new media publishing underwritten by the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. Copies of the book are available as .pdfs for download for free. Every essay has been posted online with an invitation for readers to comment.
However, I’m hoping that you’ll consider buying a paperback edition to support this open model. Rebo