Wirearchy

"Power To The People" or "Power To The Handful of Telcos" ?
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Save the Internet | Rock the Vote
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Either way, I think the future holds for us an "archy" with respect to being "wired".
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So over the years it’s become increasingly clear to me that organizations do not have innovation DNA. They don’t have adaptability DNA. This realization inevitably led me back to a fundamental question: what problem was management invented to solve, anyway ?
When you read the history of management and of early pioneers like Frederick taylor, you [...]

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… of my time has been spent mainly on the project described below.
Best Practices research, governance, space and operational planning and playing an advisor role.
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The W2 Community Media Arts Centre represents the cutting edge in bringing together hybrid art forms, community arts practices, and community cultural development in a single environment, and will host a [...]

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I wish it were easier to sort out who knows what and which information is most correct , but it certainly seems that there is a preponderance of evidence to suggest that this statement by Supreme Ayatollah Khomeini is correct.
We in the western world have so much propaganda and demonization pumped into our cerebellums that [...]

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Via Karl Denninger’s Market Ticker blog
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Step back for a second and remove the name "America" from where this is happening.
Walk up to a random person and describe all of the above (summarized directly below), leaving the name off.
Massive liquidity injections made to cover up the intentional lying of financial institutions, refusal to declare a [...]

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Cross-posted to the FASTForward blog.
Much of what follows may not be new for anyone who may read this blog.  Nevertheless, I think it’s always useful to look back every once in a while, if only to see how far and fast (or not) we’ve come since this Web thing started to penetrate more deeply and [...]

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An orchestra conductor on how the mode of totalitarian, authoritarian leadership (exemplified by orchestra conductors) is changing, necessarily so.
Lovely quote:

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I’ve been watching an interesting documentary this evening on CBC titled Radiant City, which examines daily family and social life in the North American suburb …. life from the perspective of sustainability in an era of peak oil, social alienation and social conformity.
It struck me halfway through the documentary that the host / narrator is [...]

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I’ve been out of the pool for the last week, head down in a project, but found the time to get back in the pool for a medium-length swim today.
I can now feel that I have not been swimming quite as regularly as I was a month ago, as the last 300 metres were a [...]

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I. Wallerstein speaks of the next 25 to 50 years as a critical juncture in the history of human society. That we are at the end of a world historical system that began 500 years ago. That capitalism is in terminal crisis because it can no longer externalize the true costs of its operations.
Everywhere, [...]

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