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This post was inspired by Michael Kordahi, well known to many as @delic8genius, who put out a call encouraging to geeks to share their geek origin stories.
My geek origin is shrouded in the mists of time. [...]
I’ve been thinking about innovation a great deal lately and am fascinated by how many people confuse two different kinds of innovation.
The two different kinds of innovation are:
continuous improvement – the drive for operational excellence, which is driven by optimising existing business processes and products (in the Six [...]
This is a fascinating interview by Parag Khanna (@paragkhanna) with Don Tapscott (@dtapscott). Tapscott discusses the potential upside and downside of collaborative revolutions for societies around the world and the implications for dissent, noting that:
“the Internet radically drops the cost of dissent”
Tomorrow night I’ll be hosting a panel for Digital Citizens on Politics and Digital Activism in the Social Age. The panel has a fascinating and diverse group of people:
Penny Sharpe – Labor Parliamentary Secretary for Transport and Roads John Bergin – Director of Digital News [...]
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde, in Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892)
It has been fascinating to watch the progress of the various revolutions in north Africa and the middle east, in particular the travails of the [...]
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet [...]
There is a lot of talk about revolution happening now in online communities given the unfolding events in Tunisia and Egypt. This has got me thinking about the nature of revolutions. There’s a rather nice list of revolutions and rebellions on Wikipedia for those who are not up [...]
The fight for women to get the vote was a monument to cooperation, ingenuity and collaboration on the part of many women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These women educated themselves and their peers about women’s issues and agitated for women’s rights. And the women of Australia [...]
Most organisations are grappling with the digital revolution and its democratization of communication. The US Army is no different.
However, they have met the organisational challenges of social media head on and have become an acknowledged leader in practice. They along with other parts of the US military [...]
Late yesterday I spoke with a class in the Strategic Public Advocacy for Civil Society course at UNSW law school. They are lucky to have Joan Staples as lecturer – because she is one of the few people in Australia who understands these issues at both a deep [...]
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