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Looks like a cool 2.0 version of copy nd paste:

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

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Erica Wagner on why reports of literature’s demise are exaggerated - Times Online
Erica Wagner on why reports of literature’s demise are exaggerated
I’m working on my thesis - have I mentioned it? Perhaps not, but that could be because I started working on it only when I came to consider what I might say in my […]

Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Perhaps those who dismiss critics of the Internet as Luddites or nostalgists will be proved correct, and from our hyperactive, data-stoked minds will spring a golden age of intellectual discovery and universal wisdom. Then again, the Net isn’t the alphabet, and although it may replace the printing press, it produces something […]

Another Adaptive Path presentation, this time on building customer engagement:

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10 Things I Learned from Mental Detox Week | iain tait | crackunit.com

The thing that’ll work for me is to set periods of time where it’s just not allowed.
Amen.

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Johann Hari: It’s the policies that count and that means Londoners should vote for Ken Livingstone - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
Ken Livingstone with his adenoidal, amphibian populism is the most successful left-wing politician in Europe today. Born into the white working class in the rubble of post-war London, he […]

“ridcat” is a project that visualizes political speeches “from literary imagery to actual imagery,” producing a cloud of iconic photographs. The transformation is fascinating both in its products and through its process - a psychotherapy technique called Regression Imagery Analysis.
http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2006/06/18/ridcat-interview/

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Youtube founders working on the site prototype.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html

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Some cool geekery going on at Microsoft Live Labs - they have developed an application called Photosynth which builds a 3D virtual world out of linked still photographs - if anyone has seen the Michel Gondry video for LIKE A ROLLING STONE, you’ll know what I mean.
The idea of integrating personal images with those of […]