Fred Wilson is:

June 15, 2009

Holy cow, yet another great learning-and-thinking experience, courtesy of  Fred Wilson‘s recent post, What Drives Consumer Adoption of New Technologies?, and the many amazing people who comment there! Reading avc.com regularly is like participating in an interdisciplinary college seminar – and even though  you never know in advance what’s coming up on the syllabus, the […]

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Made me comment: Brendon Wilson on Canada and Its Tech Future

June 14, 2009

I came across Brendon J. Wilson’s excellent blog post, Does it matter if the future isn’t available in Canada? last week and felt compelled to comment. Brendon’s post addresses a response to Macleans Magazine’s article You can’t buy that here, which, as he wrote, mirrored concerns he already expressed in a March 2009 post, Borders […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

June 14, 2009

YouTube – Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights Still one of the best talks on …well, sliced bread and all it has spawned. Also by Seth Godin, What makes an idea viral?, a short, thought-provoking post. tags: seth_godin, marketing, ted_conference High population density triggers cultural explosions Report on a new study by University […]

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Last FOCUS mag uploads now on Scribd

June 9, 2009

I just uploaded my May and June FOCUS Magazine articles to Scribd.com – and wow, I guess I was so pissed off about the idiot letter in the May issue (which was in response to my April article, It’s the people, stupid) that I didn’t even notice until now how badly the magazine had botched […]

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Urban density and social media tools

June 8, 2009

It won’t come as news to those of us who love and defend cities, but it’s nice to have scientific research backing up what we espouse as urban positives: High population density triggers cultural explosions, according to a new study by scientists at University College London. The study was published in the journal Science; see […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

June 7, 2009

Technology Review: Blogs: Predictably Irrational: The Symbolic Power Of Money (by Alon Nir) Fascinating short article, which reports on a new study that suggests that “simply handling money can dull physical and emotional pain.” Previous studies show that social exclusion and physical pain share (and trigger) common neural reactions, and it appears “that money and […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

May 31, 2009

Technology Review: Converting Garbage into Fuel Brief article in MIT Tech Review on strides made in gasification processes (turning garbage/ waste into fuel & electricity), in this case *without* using incineration. That last bit is key, since incineration is a huge polluter. And the new method(s) aren’t commercially viable yet: QUOTE There may still be […]

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Quiet days in cliche. But…

May 27, 2009

It’s no doubt a sign of mental rot when one writes entries (or anything) with puns for titles, but there you have it: I’ve hit a wall. Until I manage to break the cliche (by smashing the mold, say), the pun I’m sorry to say will have to stand in for what should pass muster […]

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The Sunday Diigo Links Post (weekly)

May 24, 2009

Office of the President Lee C. Bollinger: 2009 Commencement Address Lee C. Bollinger’s commencement address to the 2009 Columbia U. graduating class, with a special focus on globalization and freedom of the press/ media: “…the very same technology – the Internet – that is making global communication so pervasive – is simultaneously undermining the financial […]

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Better gold through green

May 20, 2009

It seems everyone is going green, or will be. Today I went to Victoria’s UDI (Urban Development Institute) luncheon to hear Terasen Energy Services‘ Gareth Jones present “All About Geo-Thermal: Learning from Local Projects.” Some basic take-away points: unless I severely misheard, British Columbia prices for energy (or electricity) will rise 80% in the next […]

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