No wonder it is hard for peace-making, when it sounds so different in so many languages. Or is it the collective conscious wanting us to be able to listen? You judge.
The best lifestreaming blog so far (in the tumblelog domain), especially in use of a smart-phone with media sharing (I'm on http://andersabrahamsson.posterous.com). Just in between Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/sliceonline) and Vox (http://andersabrahamsson.vox.com) as service. And dead simple signup, just email it and you're done! You can create a vanity subdomain after signup, since the auto-generated subdomain is kinda non-memory-friendly. Anyways, passes way ahead the GrandMa test in simplicity.
I use www.flock.com together with this Blinklist for my social bookmarking - so much more than a bookmarklet to have the full BlinkList toolbar!
ColorBlender is a free online tool for color matching and palette design.
In Swedish: Aikido techniques described. Aikido - the peaceful martial art. Overview.
You have an MP3 file (a podcast, a song of your band, a lecture) and you want to share it with the visitors of your site. Here is a Flash player that allows you to pause and rewind the MP3. It's like an audio version of Google Video or YouTube, with the difference that the file is hosted on your server (or on another server). It's a modified version of Odeo player, that's used to play podcasts on odeo.com. Code included.
Brijit.com summary: "Ethical consumerism is big business: Shoppers spend tens of billions of dollars searching for ethically certified products (environmentally sustainable and/or sold at fair market price). Alpert compares the claims and practices of the four companies that certify businesses big and small: Quality Assurance International (QAI), TransFair, Utz, and Rainforest Alliance. As Alpert smartly points out, allegations of "greenwashing" via the lowering of certification standards, the use of pesticides in organic farming, and the lack of facility inspections are raising concerns about these organizations' legitimacy. Keeping with the fairness theme, Alpert also lists the positive sides of these organizations." (through brijit.com http://www.brijit.com/abstract/6921/Do-Gooders-Who-Could-Do-Better)
Quote: "If someone were to do a poll of the Top 10 breakthrough ideas in management in the decade gone by, the concept of the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) would without doubt be somewhere at the top of the list." New interview with Stuart L. Hart, launching BOP 2.0 as a concept distinguishing in between discovery based (i. e. I would say Kirznerian) vs creation based (i. e. Schumpeterian) innovation approach to the BOP markets. Great! Hart is on track :).
"Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been the key to everything I’ve done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin’s success.” - Richard Branson, founder of Virgin FREE BOOK ON THE NET - For all who have fun at work, raise your hand :) ! This guy seem to share my Joy of Life Paradigm... Alexander Kjerulf from Denmark - happhourisninetofive - high five! (thanks Ed Daniel for sharing)
As the description says. [through Google]
Dave Ballard on the loose-loose-loose situation of an imploding in-the-future-maybe-more-and-more-used-to-be a standard currency, the USD. What happens if global collective consciousness and currency speculators view it as worthless? /through Jack Yan Facebook Posted Item/
The homepage of Randy Pausch, in his own words - and containing a link for the full video length of his Last Lecture. I am convinced he can really rest in total peace, since he was able to fulfil his dreams during his lifetime. Now, let's go on and fulfil yours! You would not let Randy down, will you? Soon Passing On, mr Professor - with Beyond Distinction! IF there was Six Stars on Blink, that would be my grade! Thanks!!!
See other article about Pausch, the follow up! Clip:"The Professor's Manifesto: What It Meant to Readers September 27, 2007; Page D2 As a boy, Randy Pausch painted an elevator door, a submarine and mathematical formulas on his bedroom walls. His parents let him do it, encouraging his creativity. Last week, Dr. Pausch, a computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, told this story in a lecture to 400 students and colleagues. "If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it," he said. "Don't worry about resale values.""
READ ABOUT IT! Clip: "Beloved Professor Delivers The Lecture of a Lifetime September 20, 2007; Page D1 Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor, was about to give a lecture Tuesday afternoon, but before he said a word, he received a standing ovation from 400 students and colleagues. He motioned to them to sit down. "Make me earn it," he said."
If you could spare something like $100k next year, why not go from 0 to 100 under four seconds, and go forward where GM made the cowardry out move from the movement they started 1996, and then got killed (see 'Who killed the Electric Car?' about EV1, great documentary). The power of the idea have totally seduced this team of brilliant innovators!
XO - the computer named in the OLPC - One Laptop Per Child - initiative, going semi commercial with this initiative from Nov 12, 2007: What a great Xmas Present! That means - it moves one step towards a commercial application, where the 1st round was towards government and school autoroties only. Great!
"In an interview, Google's head of engineering in Europe says that the company will hire thousands of new engineers. Just two months after Google conceded that it is watching its expanding headcount, news slips out that it plans to increase its work force by nearly a third. Nelson Mattos, the software giant's new head of engineering in Europe, himself a pick up from rival IBM, told the Financial Times of London Sept. 26 that he intends to hire thousands of engineers to make Google's European operations equivalent in size to those in the United States." Through Vincent Wright / LinkedIn Europe mailing list.
A new book from the author of Ecology of Commerce and Natural Captalism, ( http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Paul Hawken ). From now on, when I see a title worth noting, I add tags /reading list, readinglist/ to it. JFYI - just for your information.
The world's most insane architectural event right now? And what is insane in an insane world? Where is sanity? The CCTV future head-quarters in the future biggest economy in the world - China and its future TV headquarters in the loop.
Online tutorials free until Sept 30 for one of the most spread hosted Wiki platforms, especially popular among educators in high school and colleges in the US and elsewhere - PB Wiki.
Maybe one of the most successful launch of a new product creating buzz months ahead the passionate queueing at the real product launch earlier this summer. Here is where the campaign started. The iPhone keynote at MacWorld San Francisco 2007 by Steve Jobs, video-on-demand/QuickTime (of course).
Q: "In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his Trendalyzer software -- which analyzes and displays data in amazingly accessible ways, allowing people to see patterns previously hidden behind mountains of stats. (Just days after this talk, he announced a deal with Google to acquire the software.) [read more]". One of the best presenters there is. A Must See - this, and the 2006 appearance as well! /a.
Q: "SonicTransfer.com is your #1 resource for music production tutorials, plugins, and forums". Lots of Ableton Live tutorials.
Q: "If you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain English." [Through Ed: http://del.icio.us/esdaniel]
Latest development on the venture that got "Brands with a Conscience" Award 2006 from Medinge: First Mile Solutions as development partner to United Villages DakNet venture in India.
Quote: "Online marketing tools are a dime a dozen, but the most effective among them build links not out of persuasion, but rather the passion of your potential customers. Social media marketing is changing the rules of the game - here's how you can get involved."
CafePress responds to query about fair trade apparel from blogger.
A "systems template" example applicable to many situations. Do you have a problem? Where are the solutions?
history flow is a tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors. In its current implementation, history flow is being used to visualize the evolutionary history of wiki* pages on Wikipedia.
Quote: "Spock also has a vertical logo, which is totally cool." Ah, this was not the main point with this article, but PeopleSearch is sure Interesting. Have you googled your name lately?
"Technorati is known widely for its quarterly State of the Blogosphere reports, analyzing the trends around blogs and blogging. With this report, we expand on this tradition by introducing information and analysis relating to the broader range of social media on the Web -- what we and many others call the Live Web". Through Lee Wilkins, http://lee.wordpress.com.
"NASA's Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) satellites have provided the first three-dimensional images of the sun. For the first time, scientists will be able to see structures in the sun's atmosphere in three dimensions." » Through APOD, Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Quote: "One wouldn't think of Wikipedia as a news site, but it has indeed become one, as users find that they can make the software do what they want, rather than what it (originally) wanted. Ease of use can lead to new uses"
For future personal reference :). Ning, in general, is a blast!
A classical kid's book, online version.
Chinese to English Dictionary.
Seems to be a good resource on corporate identity, branding and design. Especially the 22 Immutable Laws on Branding, and a link archive to corporate Visual Identity online handbooks. "Culture is our Business" /Marshall McLuhan, 1970. {through Ning Blog - Thanks, Gina! - http://blog.ning.com/2007/04/the_story_behind_the_ning_name.html}
Maybe one of the strongest articles about Open Space Technology by the discoverer himself, from his personal website.
An easy, no frills, text editor online. Notebook Online a la Notepad. You and your text, incl word count and online save/store. .txt.
Recent reference (2006) on Social Entrepreneurship, an anthology.
Collected spot of mixes, link portal.
Social Media Club Blog: On local journalism and citizen journalism.
My 1st degree LinkedIn Bhavik Gandhi with his cross-atlantic rowing for fund-raising for SVC, Sustainability Venture Capital. Go, Bhavik, Go!
I grabbed this report on Day 1, and in the print the copy has a lot of margin notes. Of course! It has gone through the sustainability biz blog-o-sphere, and I will return with my take in time.
Text, design, whatever web - seems to be a great source!
Journalism, blogging, whatever text with headline: Captivating Headlines tip o' the day!
A wiki focusing network research.
UPDATE[apr 2]: April fools joke! // was: Making money on the way up, now secure on the way down? This is too much to relate and comment to in an eclectic and exoteric way and manner, so I will save it for next week. Or so. But, with the power of a meme, this prophecy could be self-fulfilling. The best is yet to come. Web 3.0! Be back, stay tuned. "...snippet on our way to the Turing Cathedral?"
Link collection of sound and music samples and loops.
Trance community, latest mixes.
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