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21 October 2009
300,000 strong for health care reform
The target was 100,000. But volunteers across the country blew past that goal by early afternoon yesterday. New goal: 200,000. The result? More than 300,000 calls in one day! All in support of the health care reform this country needs so badly. And Monterey County Democrats were part of it. When health care reform is [...]
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31 May 2009
Warmer, Fuzzier – The Refreshed Logo
via nytimes.com A great peek into the thinking that goes into brand identities, and a real indicator of how times have changed: companies used to want to look like authorities, and now they want to look like friends. Posted via web from Spencer’s posterous
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28 May 2009
Google Wave Preview
via wave.google.com Tim O’Reilly: “Jens, Lars, and team re-imagined email and instant-messaging in a connected world, a world in which messages no longer need to be sent from one place to another, but could become a conversation in the cloud. Effectively, a message (a wave) is a shared communications space with elements drawn from email, [...]
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28 May 2009
Tiny Art Director
via tinyartdirector.blogspot.com A completely delightful blog: the Tiny Art Director is the artist’s somewhat demanding and temperamental young daughter. And yes, she is indistinguishable from many adult art directors. Posted via web from Spencer’s posterous
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6 May 2009
Google Fellowship Applications for PdF 2009 Due Friday 5/8 | techPresident – http://bit.ly/190LTk
via techpresident.com “Are you an entrepreneur or activist with ideas about the next big thing to change government? A non-profit professional trying new technologies with great results? A former campaign staffer still blazing new trails in online politics? Google and Personal Democracy Forum are teaming up to offer registration fellowships that cover the full forum [...]
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25 March 2009
We Need to Teach Visual Critical Thinking
I was just looking at yet another vacuous presentation graphic, this one purporting to illustrate the SMART test for defining objectives. It looked something like this: This is of course rubbish. Infographics guru Edward Tufte would object strenuously to its low information density: in place of the pretty picture we could simply say “these characteristics [...]
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6 March 2009
Dawn of the Software Comedian
Microsoft Songsmith, designed to be a software aide for musical composition, has instead proved to be a great tool for comedy, as early adopters have exploited its bent for generating
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10 February 2009
Creativity in a Can
For me, what’s wrong with Songsmith is not that it’s so uncool. It’s what’s wrong (though maybe not so egregiously) with a lot of music technology: the underlying premise that productivity is an absolute good.
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27 December 2008
Back online after a rebuild
Now that the presidential election is over (and worked out so well!), I’ve been rebuilding this site. Mostly done now…
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20 February 2008
The Desert Mothers are on iTunes
Have a listen -and if you like, write a short review! Click to go to our iTunes location (This will launch the iTunes app from your browser, assuming you have iTunes installed.)