health and fitness toolbar for home office women
Thursday, den 2. October 2008The thing with working in the home office is, you need to acquire the virtue of discipline. It is easy to sneak for a little recreation in front of the tv or be distracted by casual phone calls or other personal interests. Balancing home office duties and parenting responsibilities is one area I’m still trying [...]
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Hipsters Will Save Our Economy
Thursday, den 2. October 2008In a rather striking article this week, Forbes recognizes hipsters as possibly the one demographic group that’s still happily consuming, at least in the retail sector. The article argues that while hipsters - here very broadly defined - might not make a lot of money now, they are a huge, powerful consumer group, and marketing [...]
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Empowerment Through Mobile Technology
Thursday, den 2. October 2008We were pretty moved by scifi author Bruce Sterling’s talk at LIFT Asia 2008 about the dynamic relationship between mobile technology and its users, particularly the urban poor. Core77 points out one of the most interesting insights he presents in his talk, where he discusses what he sees happening to the ecology of South Korea [...]
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Is the Article No Longer Enough?
Thursday, den 2. October 2008What’s the most effective vehicle for modern day journalism? Jeff Jarvis argues that the traditional form of the article is becoming inadequate among the non-stop barrage of news and information. He proposes that the topic should become the new building block. These topics would be catalogued live, on some sort of web page, where a [...]
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The Unproduct’ed Future of Signage
Thursday, den 2. October 2008Graphic Designer Ben Terrett has written an intriguing essay on the future of signage. He wonders what can be done about the unsightly and inefficient glut of signs and advertising that has grown out of control in our cities and towns. The idea of the “unproduct” strikes him as an apt model to follow in [...]
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Video Games Will Not Cause the Downfall of Society
Thursday, den 2. October 2008The Pew Institute released a new study on “Teens, Video Games, and Civics” last week that provides some great insight on youth and gaming culture and where they meet. Social media researcher Danah Boyd highlights a few key points:
Almost all (97%) of teens play games. They play many different kinds of games and gender is [...]
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Photomake: Making Drawings Real
Thursday, den 2. October 2008Photomake is a very cool web service that will translate line drawings into solid objects. Like a 2 dimensional version of Shapeways, the site makes it really easy to create unique objects. All you have to do is draw something, scan it - or even take a photo of it, upload it to the site, [...]
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PSFK Conference Asia Speaker Michael Keferl
Thursday, den 2. October 2008We’re looking forward to to hearing from Michael Keferl, Managing Director at CScout Japan, joining us in Singapore at PSFK Conference Asia to discuss the latest in Asian youth trends. We asked him to share a little bit about himself with us.
First, who are you and what do you do?
I’m the Managing Director of CScout [...]
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Mark Pesce: Hyperconnectivity, Community & The Crowd
Thursday, den 2. October 2008Mark Pesce recently delivered a rousing keynote speech at Web Directions South. It was charged full of powerful thoughts about the pitfalls and opportunities of the hyperconnected world. He talks about the differences in how giant collectives self-organize to behave either like a functional community, or an angry crowd. This is definitely a must read, [...]
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Is Fear Leading Your Business?
Thursday, den 2. October 2008In these crazy unpredictable economical times, are you letting fear lead your business? If you are stuck and seem to just be shaking your head and do not know where to go in your business. You may be allowing fear to lead your business. In order for your business to move forward, you need to [...]
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