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"…the unit cost of intermediation is higher today than it was a century ago, and it has increased..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:38:23 -0800

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…the unit cost of intermediation is higher today than it was a century ago, and it has increased over the past 30 years. One interpretation is that improvements in information technology may have been cancelled out by increases in other financial activities whose social value is difficult to assess.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/thirty-years-of-financial-inefficiency.html#iQZxYhgZJVWBE10t.99

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"Sandberg may mean well, and she may be setting up a run for national office. But she doesn’t..."

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:29:12 -0800

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Sandberg may mean well, and she may be setting up a run for national office. But she doesn’t understand the difference between a social movement and a social network marketing campaign. Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn’t mean you’re actually reaching people.

People come to a social movement from the bottom up, not the top down. Sandberg has co-opted the vocabulary and romance of a social movement not to sell a cause, but herself.

She says she’s using marketing for the purpose of social idealism. But she’s actually using social idealism for the purpose of marketing.

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- Maureen Dowd, in Pompom Girl for Feminism, pushes back on Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In. (via stoweboyd)

London 2012, a set on Flickr.Send me to London any day! Just...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:28:43 -0800

London 2012, a set on Flickr.

Send me to London any day! Just back from a week on business.

Instagram profiles: the social image

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:23:47 -0800

Instagram profiles: the social image

The system that breaks is not the system that repairs

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:33:38 -0800

The system that breaks is not the system that repairs

Stormy Monday (at Deloitte)

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:08:19 -0700

Stormy Monday (at Deloitte)

Arctic sea ice shrinks to smallest extent ever recorded | Guardian

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:06:48 -0700

Arctic sea ice shrinks to smallest extent ever recorded | Guardian:

climateadaptation:

kateoplis:

Satellite images show that the rapid summer melt has reduced the area of frozen sea to less than 3.5 million square kilometres this week – less than half the area typically occupied four decades ago.

One example why this matters - record heating bills and (an expected) spike in CO2 emissions for 2013:

Canadian scientists said this week that the record melt this year could lead to a cold winter in the UK and Europe, as the heat in the Arctic water will be released into the atmosphere this autumn, potentially affecting the all-important jet stream. While the science is still developing in this area, the Met Office said in May that the reduction in Arctic sea ice was contributing in part to the colder, drier winters the UK has been experiencing in recent years.”

tazart12: The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone: Spazio di...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:59:58 -0700

tazart12:

The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone: Spazio di Luce

In visiting the Whitechapel Gallery, this is the piece that stuck out most of all! The artist, Giuseppehas created a twelve metre bronze cast of a tree, with a gold-leaf interior. Looking through the centre is breathtaking - the light is captured beautifully on the goldleaf and through the gaps in the piece.

Profiles in One for One: Dr. Mariano

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:59:44 -0700

toms:

Profiles in One for One: Dr. Mariano Yee, founder of Visualiza Eye Care Center

After wrapping up his studies in ophthalmology in 2002, Dr. Mariano Yee founded the Visualiza Eye Care System with the help of his brother, Nicolás, and his wife, Kimberly, to provide high-quality eye care in Guatemala City. Moved by Guatemalan’s in need of eye care, but unable to access or afford it, Dr. Mariano and his staff expanded Visualiza in 2005 to offer public eye care services. Following Aravind’s model — the world’s largest eye care system, Visualiza’s paying patients subsidize those that cannot afford care. In 2012, Visualiza became a TOMS Sight Giving Partner.

Read on as Dr. Mariano tells us his inspiring story, and see where his tale intertwines with the One for One movement…

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More than your average corporation!

thenextweb: (via DOGHOUSE | NASA’s Doing Something Right)

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:04:26 -0700

thenextweb:

(via DOGHOUSE | NASA’s Doing Something Right)

laughingsquid: Photos: Tiki Oasis 3rd Annual Art Show & Spy...

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:15:30 -0700

laughingsquid:

Photos: Tiki Oasis 3rd Annual Art Show & Spy Briefcase Contest

emergentfutures: Here’s one I made earlier: Making organ...

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 06:09:54 -0700

emergentfutures:

Here’s one I made earlier: Making organ donation a thing of the past - the British lab growing human spare parts

Don’t panic, this isn’t a severed human ear – but one that’s been grown in a laboratory at Britain’s remarkable new human body parts store

Full Story: Mailonline

Under The Influence Of Klout

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:16:20 -0700

parislemon:

As an outsider, my view of Klout has mainly been a bit of fascination about why it pisses some people off so much. I’ve been in conversations where it gets brought up and someone will visibly cringe. As best I can tell, at a fundamental level, it boils down to this:

People don’t like to be ranked — unless they have a high ranking. But if the ranking is too high, it’s better to pretend like you don’t like that ranking so as not to piss off the people below you who have helped give you such a high ranking. In other words, people are pissed off at the bottom *and* at the top of the scale. A rock and a hard place.

This feeling is exacerbated by the fact that this is the internet. The great unifier. Here, everyone can truly be equal. Except that’s not really true.

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IMHO social data was always Klout’s goal. But no matter what the company aims to do, the debate on influence will never go away.

myedol: Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder by Nike Savvas

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:32:15 -0700

myedol:

Atomic: Full of Love, Full of Wonder by Nike Savvas

Underpaid Genius: Gaming The System: Unsnarling Traffic With Carrots, Not Sticks

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:16:32 -0700

Underpaid Genius: Gaming The System: Unsnarling Traffic With Carrots, Not Sticks :

underpaidgenius:

How can we diminish traffic congestion? Turns out that adding more roads can paradoxically increase traffic, so that’s not reliable. What about charging higher tolls on highways during peak commute times? Well, that requires legislation, which — as Bloomberg discovered in New York — may be…

Outrage as credit agency plans to mine Facebook data — European technology news

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 04:22:27 -0700

Outrage as credit agency plans to mine Facebook data — European technology news:

futuristgerd:

where is this going???

ruineshumaines: Janet Echelman

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:07:38 -0700

ruineshumaines:

Janet Echelman

graafiez: Beautiful Illustrations by Matt Leyen

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:49:01 -0700

graafiez:

Beautiful Illustrations by Matt Leyen

Stowe Boyd: Why Yammer Deal Makes Sense

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:43:07 -0700

Stowe Boyd: Why Yammer Deal Makes Sense:

stoweboyd:

Yammer has agreed to a $1.2B acquisition by Microsoft, as was rumored yesterday.

The work media, or enterprise social networks, marketplace is exploding. In December, Forester forecasted that work media will grow at a compound annual rate of 61% through 2016, reaching a market size of $6.4…

First Lady Joins Pinterest

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:06:10 -0700

First Lady Joins Pinterest