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n Monrovia, Liberia, there’s a guy taking the matter of a lopsided, state-run media and reshaping it into a free-of-charge, independent news-aggregator—all accomplished with dry-erase board and couple markers.

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November 29 2009, 9:36am | Comments »

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What’s So Good About “Mad Men”?: Interesting Times : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2009/11/mad-men.html

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November 10 2009, 4:03pm | Comments »

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Before I die, I want to…

http://www.thingsamongmany.com/2009/09/28/before-i-die-i-want-to/

Seems photo projects are the theme around here for the moment. The newest one that I’ve stumbled across is called Before I die, I want to…. Artistic duo Nicole Kenney and ks rives each carry a Polaroid camera with them at all times, stopping to snap a shot of the interesting people they come across. And, for every shot they take, they ask the person what dream they’d like to accomplish during their lifetime. All of the photos (and dreams) are collected on their site http://beforeidieiwantto.org for the world to see. Their hope is to reconnect with all of their subjects in a few (read 10 or 20?) years to see how they’re coming with their dreams. Seeing online that other people are fulfilling their desires will motivate participants to complete their task and write a story of their own. They’ve also taken this hobby/project on the road. The two recently spent three months traveling through India, Polaroids close at hand, asking the locals the very same question. Those dreams are also collected on a separate section of the site. If you want to share with Nicole and ks your personal dream, they’re taking submissions from around the world as well. Just follow the directions here to share with them.

September 28 2009, 6:37am | Comments »

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Live Blogging Tony Robbins Keynote 140/Twitter LA: celebrate for no reason « art predator

http://artpredator.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/tony-robbins-140the-twitter-conference-la/#more-11578

September 23 2009, 12:44pm | Comments »

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Grant McCracken: Paula Rosch, unsung hero in the production of innovation and culture

http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/2009/09/paula-rosch-unsung-hero-in-the-production-of-culture-and-product-innovation.html

September 11 2009, 4:15am | Comments »

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phone applications and real people :: Influxinsights

http://www.influxinsights.com/blog/article/2368/phone-applications-and-real-people.html

video with apps on iphone.

September 8 2009, 2:08am | Comments »

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Disney buys Marvel (send in the anthropologists!)

http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/2009/09/disney-buys-marvel-send-in-the-anthropologists.html

Anthropological dreams are made of this: helping Disney and Marvel manage their rapprochement. Nothing short of heroic effort will do. Disney is, after all, a pretty good marker for all that is mainstream about American culture. Marvel is, by deliberate contrast, darker and less predictable. One corporation turns in towards the gravitational center of our culture. The other prefers to plot a course for the margin, for the uncharted, for the unknown. I mean, this can't be a match made in heaven. It's going to be tricky, complicated and, possibly, agonizing.Right?No, actually. Stan Lee, god of the comix world, says the "synergy" between the two companies is "perfect." And The Economist says a clash of cultures is unlikely.Disney is no longer the control freak it was under its former boss, Michael Eisner. His successor, Bob Iger, has turned out to be a relatively hands-off boss, with the Pixar acquisition a model of the sort of treatment Marvel can expect.Hmm. I wonder if it's not too soon to go leaping to conclusions. It may well be true that Disney and Marvel will not suffer cultural differences of the big C kind. The center-periphery distinction matters less and less. Both parties have decoded the other. So Disney and Marvel may occupy different cultural trajectories, but they need not be prisoners of their strengths. What will vex and potentially undo this marriage is not the culture "out there," and their relative locations in our culture. It's the culture "in there."This is culture of the little "c" variety, the ones that define the corporate culture. These are subtle and powerfully different. Some are merely "tomato" and I say "tomaato," that sort of thing. But others are fundamental differences of concept and problem solving. These sound little but in the press of everyday work, they add up and occasionally tip over. The difference between the two corporate culture is a little like the differences between the operating system of a PC and Apple. Not so very different, but when you are working on the fly annoying as the dickens, and sometimes just completely wrongfooting. The differences of the corporate culture are subtle and deeply embedded. Indeed they are so deeply buried they are impossible to see. You cannot see them just by looking, anymore than you can work out the grammar of a speech just by speaking. No, the thing to do is send in a team for anthropologist who will dig out these assumptions, logics and subroutines (to say nothing of the mixed metaphors) and (wait for it) build a translation table for the two companies. Think of us as ferrets, but think of us. Tom Guarriello, Mary Walker, Steve Portigal, Cheryl Swanson (for all of whom I speak without permission), and yours truly are standing by. ReferencesAnonymous. 2009. Of mouse and X-Men. The Economist. September5-11. p. 71.