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Friday, December 31, 2004 |
Flickr, The Land of 10,000 Memes. What makes the internet great, in my mind,
isn't so much the services you can access online, isn't so
much online news or even education. It's the stuff around
the edges, the odd and sometimes magical forms of
self-expression, that the internet enables. The more
popular of these end up as internet memes, and through them
you see glimpses into humanity no media has ever been able
to capture. As Alan Levine points out, Flickr is
particularly good at spreading memes. But the stories have
been with us since the beginning, and I hope they never go
away. By Alan Levine, CogDogBlog, December 30, 2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
7:43:05 PM  Google It!.
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Battling the antibodies. I checked out a stack of library books for my vacation week, but the only one that really grabbed me was David Bornstein's How to Change the World: Social Entrepeneurs and the Power of New Ideas. (You can also catch his Pop!Tech lecture on ITConversations.) The book revolves around the inspirational Bill Drayton. Drayton is an architect of change, and this passage from the book writes his job description:
In his book, Leading Change: The Argument for Values-Based Leadership,
James O'Toole, an expert in management and leadership, observes that
great thinkers throughout the world agree that "groups resist change
with all the vigor of antibodies attacking an intruding virus." O'Toole
examines a number of cases in which a potentially beneficial
institutional change was resisted and finds that the resistance occurs
when a group perceives that a change in question will challenge its
"power, prestige, and satisfaction with who they are, what they
believe, and what they cherish." He asserts: "The major factor in our
resistance to change is the desire not to have the will of others
forced on us."
If ideas are to take root and spread, therefore, they need
champions -- obsessive people who have the skill, motivation, energy,
and bullheadedness to do whatever is necessary to move them forward: to
persuade, inspire, seduce, cajole, enlighten, touch hearts, alleviate
fears, shift perceptions, articulate meanings, and artfully maneuver
them through systems.
... [Jon's Radio]
12:04:37 PM Google It!.
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Deane's Suggestion for Library Discs. D-Skin
"Every library in the country should get a supply of
these for their DVD collections, which are, invariably, the most
scratched up set of media in existence." [Gadgetopia, originally from undisclosed location]
This is a great suggestion if we can get a bulk purchase price.
D-Skins
"Just snap one of these onto your music, movie, game or
data CD’s and consider them protected. The amazing Liplock Seal snaps
onto the edge of any standard size disc and holds tight. Leave your
d_skin Protective Disc Skin on while you play away — outside and
inside your media players. Seriously. Your discs are totally readable
right through the Skin."
View the [loud] demo. Slick! [The Shifted Librarian]
8:24:32 AM Google It!.
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You, Too, Can Be a Podcaster.
Fans of the burgeoning technology, which lets users broadcast and
download audio content feeds to MP3 players, say it represents audio
broadcasting's future. But podcasting still has a long way to go. By
Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]
8:20:23 AM Google It!.
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