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After googling and searching facebook for about 5 minutes, I can’t seem to locate the actual facebook that is meant to have thousands of supporters… It’s interesting that none of the stories I have read on mainstream media’s websites references the actual facebook location. See also: The Facebook Page (when I find it) via The [...]

Roberto Verganti’s DESIGN-DRIVEN INNOVATION Changing the Rules of Competition byRadically Innovating What Things Mean How to create innovations that customers do not expect, but that they eventually love? How to create products and services, that are so distinct from those that dominate the market and so inevitable that make people passionate? Design-Driven Innovation unveils how [...]

Originally from Research in focus: Social entrepreneurship – LabforCulture This Research in focus is devoted to the essence and characteristics of social entrepreneurship as a new global phenomenon, the policy objectives behind social entrepreneurship programmes and their impact on long-term policy decisions, including in the cultural sector. “The most powerful source in the world is [...]

NielsenWire’s A Pocket Guide to Social Media and Kids looks at how kids are using social media. SUMMARY: When is a phone not a phone? In the hands of children and tweens, today’s cell phones are primarily used as text messaging devices, cameras, gaming consoles, video viewers, MP3 players, and incidentally, as mobile phones via [...]

After scanning through Koert van Mensvoort’s Real Nature is not Green, I was a little confused. Maybe I should read it more carefully, but his point seemed relatively straightforward. Culture is that which we control. Nature is all those things that have an autonomous quality and fall outside the scope of human power. In this [...]

Full Story – Real Nature is not Green At the edge of the woods along the motorway near the Dutch town of Bloemendaal, there stands a mobile telephone mast disguised as a pine tree. This mast is not nature: at best, it is a picture of nature. It is an illustration, like a landscape painting [...]

Trendwatching predicts embedded generosity will be big in 2010…. Here’s what they say: It was big in 2009, and it will be even bigger in 2010. In particular all things EMBEDDED GENEROSITY. It incorporates all giving initiatives that make giving and donating painless, if not automatic (after all, pragmatism is the religion . On top [...]

Blood Coltan is a documentary about the West’s demand for Coltan, used in mobile phones and computers, is funding the killings in Congo. Under the close watch of rebel militias, children as young as ten work the mines hunting for this black gold. ‘Blood Coltan’ exposes the web of powerful interests protecting this blood trade. [...]

National Journal Magazine’s The Cyberwar Plan has an interesting run-down of some of past examples of US cyber strategies and tactics. A good backgrounder … By early 2007, however, two senior officials with experience and faithin the power of cyber-warfare to discretely target an adversary steppedinto top military and intelligence posts. Mike McConnell, a formerdirector [...]