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Got up early this 6th June and went off to the Sydney Film Festival showing of Overlord. This is a rarely seen film based on Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy, which was launched on D-Day 6th June 1944. It is a fascinating film, interweaving
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Seth Godin's recent post Out of bounds got me thinking about the implicit contracts that we create almost unconsciously everyday. In Seth's post he's talking about companies and their marketing. He notes how upset people get when a brand or product does something that
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A long time ago I confessed to @SilkCharm that I did not get Twitter and was about to abandon it. But at her urging I persisted with the darn thing. Then quite quickly there were a whole bunch of people following me, and it became necessary to develop a set
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BarCamp Sydney is on again - so block out Saturday 27 June 2009 in your diary. This is 5th BarCamp Sydney & the un-organising committee has tagged this one as the Recession Edition or “the BarCamp we had to have” (paraphrasing Keating from 1990). There's a new venue
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Recently I noted the phenomenon of MBA graduates signing pledges promising to behave ethically. This is an admirable sentiment, especially given the sheer number of MBA graduates (from 'excellent' business schools) who've been responsible for and/or complicit in our current Global Financial Crisis. But it
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Even though I've finished my Live Local 7 day challenge the amazing support from people both online and offline continues. An example of this is the very kind @jrobens who dropped off a new plant for my garden at lunch yesterday. Now I've got a curry
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Here's Daniel Almagor from Engineers without Borders talking about why he thinks the Future Summit is important to help us "engineer a better world":
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Approach My approach was that of an ordinary outer suburban Sydney dweller. I wanted to see how easy it would be to live locally using the local shopping sources - malls, supermarkets, farmer's markets - without travelling long distances to specialist sources. I also broadened my thinking to
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Had long distances to travel today - starting with a meeting with some of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) folks at the Garvan Institute in Darlinghurst. We were discussing Smart Technology for Healthy Longevity . It was nice to catch up with Craig Mudge & Gordon Bell
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Here's Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist with Austrade (who's also known as the Airport Economist), talking about why the Future Summit was on his agenda: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b8sCHQw8Eo&w=425&h=344]
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One of the many things that this challenge has taught me is what season it is now. Up until this time I had never really bothered with little details like that because it did not matter to me. There was no reason to pay attention, apart from the obvious weather