I am not finding the Olympic torch ‘exciting’ or ‘emotional’ and I am a sucker for those two emotions. Clever marketing stunt though.
The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai from FStoppers on Vimeo. 16 March 2011  |  | category: advice, can't make it up!, film, photography, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, the law, the state we're in, world of work, writing  | comments are closed  “There was clearly felt the presence of a force not bound to be kind to man. It was a place for heathenism and superstitious rites, — to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to wild animals than we.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» THOREAU – WEBTEXTS – KTAADN PASSAGE: .) There’s a one-eyed yellow idol To the north of Kathmandu; There’s a little marble cross below the town; And a brokenhearted woman Tends the grave of ‘Mad’ Carew, While the yellow god for ever gazes down. He was known as ‘Mad Carew By the subs at Kathmandu, He was hotter than they felt inclined to tell, But, for all his foolish pranks, He was worshipped in the ranks, And the Colonel’s daughter smiled on him as well. He had loved her all along With the passion of the strong, And that she returned his love was plain to all. She [ continue reading The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God ] SAN FRANCISCO — Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film. Young people, of course, much prefer online chats and text messages. These have been on the rise for years but are now threatening to eclipse e-mail, much as they have already superseded phone calls. Major Internet companies like Facebook are responding with message services that are focused on immediate gratification. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» E-Mail Use Falls as Young Chat and Text – NYTimes.com: .) [ continue reading E-Mail Use Falls as Young Chat and Text – NYTimes.com ] Only a hill ; earth set a little higher above the face of earth : a larger view of little fields and roads : a little higher to clouds and silence : what is that to you? Only a hill ; but all of life to me, up there, between the sunset and the sea. The appearance of impropriety Marketing is actually what other people are saying about you. Like it or not, true or not, what other people say is what the public tends to believe. Hence an imperative to be intentional about how we’re seen. It may be true that the effluent from your factory is organic, biodegradable and not harmful to the river. But if it is brown and smelly and coming out of an open pipe, your neighbors might draw their own conclusions. I know you washed your hands [ continue reading The appearance of impropriety ] ‘Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete’, the autobiography of the famed Yorkshire climber written by Ron and outdoors journalist Ed Douglas, is the winner of the 2010 Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature, it was announced at the Kendal Mountain Festival on Friday. Described the the chairman of the judges, Ian Smith as ‘an engaging portrait of an unassuming yet quite remarkable climber told with humility and frankness’, the book tells Ron’s life story from his childhood in a small Yorkshire village through to his pioneering role in climbing in the 1970s. The judges praised Fawcett’s candour and also commended Ed [ continue reading Fawcett Book Lands Boardman Tasker Prize ] [link to Wikipedia] “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and [ continue reading Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863 ] Many entrepreneurs idolize Steve Jobs. He’s such a perfectionist, they say. Nothing leaves the doors of 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino without a polish and finish that makes geeks everywhere drool. No compromise! I like Apple for the opposite reason: they’re not afraid of getting a rudimentary 1.0 out into the world. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Matt Mullenweg: .) Social networks, those loose, busy and self-absorbing communities of Facebookers and Twitterers, have always invited analogies from the insect world. If we are to accept the most common of them, then in the past week, Malcolm Gladwell, provocateur-in-chief at the New Yorker magazine, has poked a sharp stick into the online ants’ nest. The twitterers have responded to his provocation by swarming on to blogs and websites to protect their uniting belief: that the future belongs to them. Gladwell is a spirited contrarian. His argument in the New Yorker was an attack on the prevalent idea that online [ continue reading Twitter and Facebook cannot change the real world, says Malcolm Gladwell ] (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Anthony McNeill MANL Twitter Dissertation: .) 2 October 2010 | | category: learning, social media tools, the state we're in, twitter, writing | comments are closed I’ve posted previously about Dr. Seuss’s “School of Unorthodox Taxidermy,” a sculpture series that Theodore Seuss Geisel created in the 1930s. Reproductions are available, but an incredibly-rare original set is now on eBay. They are currently on exhibit at the Chateau de Belcastel monument in France, but they can be yours for just $1,000,000. From eBay: This collection would have been originally purchased in the late 1930’s. They were kept in a child’s room, and eventually retired to the storage barn next to a chicken coop in upstate New York. The set was acquired for a substantial sum in [ continue reading Original Dr. Seuss taxidermy on eBay – Boing Boing ] District line, Whitechapel-ish (11:30pm, front carriage) » The gentleman in the padded jacket stares into nothing. » The bloke in the ribbed top is plugged (via white headphones) into his iPhone. » The bloke in the grey jersey is plugged (via black headphones) into his iPhone. » The man in the sweatshirt has his phone lengthways, and is tap-tap-tapping a graphic entity around the screen. » The lawyer in the suit and unbuttoned white shirt checks his emails whilst listening to some piped music. » The youth in the stripy top and red neckerchief watches tumbling blocks fall into pixellated [ continue reading diamond geezer ] imago \ih-MAH-goh\, noun: 1. An idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unaltered in adult life. 2. Entomology. An adult insect. I made a graphic that shows how I think information moves through our society today. At the top is the discovery, on its way to becoming common knowledge at the bottom it has to move through several phases. Each phase is an ecological niche that is occupied by a different species. Each creature on the list feeds off of information and uses it for energy to do work. Without information it dies. Take any topic and you can trace its path through the information ecosystem. Global Climate Change, Health Care, Peak Oil, Asbestos concerns, Water on the moon, etc… [ continue reading How information moves in today’s society ] “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky I think this observation is brilliant. It reminds me of the clarity of the Peter Principle, which says that a person in an organization will be promoted to the level of their incompetence. At which point their past achievements will prevent them from being fired, but their incompetence at this new level will prevent them from being promoted again, so they stagnate in their incompetence. The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions (like a company, or an industry) can become so [ continue reading The Shirky Principle; ‘Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution’. ] 31 August 2010 | | category: advice, prognosticators, the state we're in, thinkers, writing | comments are closed 90% of everything we write and say comes from only 7000 words – try to increase the words in use by adopting and using a dying word. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Save The Words: .) Waxy’s got a reprint from John Hodgman’s Twitter feed yesterday, a 140-char-at-a-time masterful rip into the most odious of Internet jargon: “Meh.” hodgman: Did I ever tell you people how much I hate the word “meh“? Nothing announces “I have missed the point” more than that word. hodgman: It is the essence of blinkered Internet malcontentism. And a rejection of joy. Also: 12 hive mehs in the replies SO FAR hodgman: By definition, it may mean disinterest (although simple silence would be a more damning and sincere response, in that case) hodgman: But in use, it almost universally [ continue reading John Hodgman explains what’s wrong with “Meh” – Boing Boing ] Flocking behavior is the behavior exhibited when a group of birds, called a flock, are foraging or in flight. There are parallels with the shoalingbehavior of fish, the swarming behavior of insects, and herd behavior of land animals. Computer simulations and mathematical models which have been developed to emulate the flocking behaviors of birds can generally be applied also to the “flocking” behavior of other species. As a result, the term “flocking” is sometimes applied, in computer science, to [ continue reading Flocking (behavior) ] 21 July 2010 | | category: bloody quotations, scofflaws, tolerated crime and hypocrites, writing | comments are closed From the website: "Here's a bunch of words that, by themselves, have a handful of meanings. Because of this flexibility, they can be instrumental in titles for… songs/poems/stories/etc. The most flexible words are at the top of the list." [via Milena] (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» bookofjoe Ambiguous Words: .) This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States. BLIMEY! via List of British words not widely used in the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I’d love to see a coastal library set up a permanent book exchange like this. Has it been done? [pic from baddogwhiskas] (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Walking Paper Beach IKEA Ad Evokes Library Vibe: .) Frances writes, “Those are evidently a bunch of plastic rocks. They work hard to create “realistic” “terrain”, but those things ain’t cheap!” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks something rocky: .) I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin. The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing– there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London. [ continue reading Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody ] 19 May 2010 | | category: prognosticators, the state we're in, time, world of work, writing | one comment - (comments are closed) The Greatness of Simplicity From Self Control, Its Kingship and Majesty by William George Jordan, 1905 No character can be simple unless it is based on truth—unless it is lived in harmony with one’s own conscience and ideals. Simplicity is the pure white light of a life lived from within. It is destroyed by any attempt to live in harmony with public opinion. Public opinion is a conscience owned by a syndicate,—where the individual is merely a stockholder. But the individual has a conscience of which he is sole proprietor. Adjusting his life to his own [ continue reading The Greatness of Simplicity ] MORE INFO HERE If you’re ready to think of your blog as a business (one of the hot topics over onThird Tribe Marketing), one way to do that is to start thinking of your blog content as the core of a distribution flow. In the little drawing to the left, I’ve put your subject matter at the heart of your system, and then have recommended you look at your blog, other products, education, and partnerships as the four areas you might consider. Note how I’ve moved your blog off to a branch and not to the heart of the drawing. Let’s talk [ continue reading /build-ecosystems-for-your-content/ ] |  
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