Hope

Obama will have a word with Congress in a few hours, and we’ll peek in — it’s touted as a mini-State of the Nation speech. Talking heads are signaling that they think it will be Reagan-esque — i.e., somber but inspiring us forward. Which got me thinking about Ron — what always comes up in my brain is a collage of the 70s … Muskrat Love and all [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 22:40:16

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/20/2009

We don’t have a TV, so I was spared the inauguration. This morning, during a skype conversation, someone started telling me about the events as they were then unfolding in Washington.My response: “LALALALALALALA! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”I’ve got four (or more likely eight or more) years to get used to Obama. So I’m going to take my time.Thanks to C [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 03:50:00

Construction and Partnering

Introduction Design advice and the critical evaluation of building proposals often address the means adopted to meet objectives ... to make, what materials to use, where a building should be oriented, how to construct features ... in building design in terms of solutions that are not specific to a time, place or client. This creates [more...]

Date: 2009-02-12 02:23:35

A Meteor To Kiss The World

January 11, 2009, Matthew Good After finishing all the bass tracks for the record last night I decided to drive home for my day off. Sleeping in a proper bed was a relief, to say the least. A little laundry, a lot of not moving, you get the picture. Tomorrow I’ll head back into town to start on guitars, which I’m looking forward to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 03:44:47

Ambassadors, Kerry, Levey, Sanctions, and Peace

Fredric C. Hof ’s name was floated in a Kuwaiti paper as the next ambassador to Damascus. Sami Moubayed picked up the story, but soon published a denial from Hof , who explained that he had not been offered the job. Hof wrote, “To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of my impending appointment are greatly exaggerated. Indeed, they are false [more...]

Date: 2009-02-15 19:16:37

Open-Access Fiber Networks

Introduction It is the paradoxical purpose of this paper to simultaneously suggest that a single “big picture” idea can, if brought into practice, bring positive and transformative change to America’s communications infrastructure, and, indeed, the large swaths of social and economic activity that rely on that infrastructure, while [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 18:24:16

What We Did Last Summer: Social Network Aggregation and Activity Feeds in Windows Live

As some of you know, last year I worked on the platform behind the What's New page on Windows Live Spaces which provides the similar ... or not. Turning the idea on its head...it would be cool to be able to publish the activity list on other sites ... the following suggestions There's a lot of potential for this activity list given that it [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 00:43:42

Drum Machine: Spinning for War with Iran

Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Feb. 23: There is a lot riding on whom President Obama names as his special envoy to Iran ... of the corporate media bubble, but it never goes away. Very weighty factions in the American power structure ... reported the fact that Iran has deliberately slowed the pace of its nuclear enrichment program [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 15:57:57

Enterprise 2.0 - A new Age of Aquarius?

It’s two weeks after the event, but here are my slides and notes from my presentation at Edge of the Web. Apologies for the delay. To those for whom some of this looks familiar, it shares an amount of common content with my recent paper at the BTELL EA conference. The audiences were very different, so the common content wasn’t an issue [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 03:57:56

IAB Sold-Out Annual Leadership Meeting: Live Blog - Monday

6:05 PM Our last panel of the day took a political spin with a frank discussion on the lessons learned from the Obama campaign in social media ... Howe, Corporate Vice President, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group from Microsoft. Going ... . 4:05 PM Creative is king as The New York Times  team shares how they've used creative and [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 13:50:15

Collecting Craft and Game Supplies for Children in Egypt

  Dear Children and Families,                                                    February 20, ... ? There are two ways that you can do that this month! Northland’s Children’s Ministries team has been blessed ... world with the message of Christ and invited our team to serve the 130 children whose parents [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 20:32:19

Yahoo! Search Takes on the Windy City

Chicago will have a lot more than wind to handle next week as Search Engine professionals flurry to the annual Search Engine Strategies Show ... building, and blended search. Below is a quick snapshot of where you can find us: Monday, December ... . Among all the activities at the show, Yahoo! Search will be participating in a variety of panels [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 17:00:00

Sharing, Self Promotion Always a Two-Way Street

By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed) Last month, I touched upon 35 tips for getting started with social media. Today I want to expand a little more on that, and focus on one key area for success, sharing and self promotion. You just wrote a good piece of quality content, you are proud, and you want the world to know [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 21:18:03

Review: The Little Book That Saves Your Assets

Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book. I’ve been a pretty big fan of the “Little Books, Big Profits” series published by Wiley and Sons, of which this is the sixth entry. I’ve reviewed each one and quite liked most of them - they do a very good job Here are nutshells of the first five, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 20:00:53

Does This Family Look Familiar? (Part 2)

I wrote yesterday regarding tired and exhausted families.  This is something I am very concerned about ... .   How much can we get done in the allotted amount of time?  How many activities can we do?  Our children may want to be on a particular team, be involved in a particular program at school [more...]

Date: 2009-02-19 12:03:21

Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/30/2008

USABlack Racists Recruited to Guide the JihadCAIR Tries to Censor California PoliticiansIslam Convert Gets 35 Years in Plot to Attack MallLocal Muslim Scouts Celebrate RamadanPolice: No Evidence of Hate Crime at Ohio MosqueProsecutors on Obama ‘Truth Squad’ Sound RetreatSocialist “Bailout” Could Spark CollapseUS Publisher of Muslim Novel Closes [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 00:58:00

Also outside

One of the things that marks Sarah Palin as a linguistic outsider is her use of also. In part, this is just a matter of frequency ... . That is not so, but because that's just a quick answer, I want to talk about, again, my record ... , and we're building schools for children there so that there is opportunity in that country, also [more...]

Date: 2008-10-04 00:44:40

Results Without Authority

Controlling a project when the team doesn’t report to you One Sentence Summary: Today in large organizations, it is rare that the project lead has supervisory power over all the people on his project team ... and scraping. I am giving you a quick summary, which I hope will be sufficient for you to get a good [more...]

Date: 2009-02-01 10:00:47

Media & Politics (one section only today)

Permanent link to MTA daily media newsGibbs: “Danger” if Obama does too little (Politico) ... building, laying out the high points of President Obama’s speech — and handling questions on how to spin ... the name of last night's Anderson Cooper program at 10 pm, following Obama’s address to Congress [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 21:08:12

DrumBeat: September 18, 2008

Refilling fuel tanks after Ike to take weeks HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil refiners and producers on Thursday rushed to restore Gulf of Mexico production following Hurricane Ike, but energy traders and analysts warned it will take several more weeks to refill U.S. fuel inventories, increasing the risk of shortages [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 13:19:59

Socialtext’s New Features Help Build Tighter Teams

Written by Aliza Sherman . Corporate social networking company Socialtext adds to its product lineup today. Building on the theories of collaboration and networking that Socialtext founder Ross Mayfield ... more context to the conversations and relationships you have with distributed team members. Much [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 22:21:01

Posts about Website traffic as of March 7, 2009

Compare Products - quadtechint.com 03/07/2009 I was looking to buy a good digital camera, ... was contracted by Cutting Edge Landscaping and Lawncare to design their new website with a corporate ... - newaffiliatesresource.com 03/07/2009 There are many companies located worldwide that helps in building good [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 13:51:02

Statue of Liberty Chills With Plastic Cooling Towers

She has put on a nice face for more than 100 years, welcoming seafarers to these shores with dignity and grace ... this year John Culkin, president of C&S Building Services in Farmingdale, NY, led a team of HVAC ... prohibitive.Culkin didn’t need to look far for a solution. Since C&S manages maintenance and repair activities [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 16:54:20

Left 4 Dead - The Left 4 Dictionary

This is a collection of terms used in the popular online game Left 4 Dead, and on its official forums ... to scream when attacked by the Special Infected. Allows your team to identify that you're in trouble ... on their team. - Other people raging. - Griefing on either team. Though a common term, it is often overused [more...]

Date: 2009-02-28 03:52:06

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Jan 26 – Feb 1, 2009)

Contributed by: Prieur du Plessis (http://www.investmentpostcards.com) - “Words from the Wise” this week comes to you in a shortened format as pressure from my “day job” precludes me from doing my customary commentary. However, a full dose of excerpts from interesting news items and quotes from market commentators is provided. ( [more...]

Date: 2009-02-01 09:04:14

Cisco and Amsterdam Launch Smart Work Center

our earlier Coworking Roundup comes the news that Cisco has collaborated with the city of Amsterdam to launch its first Smart Work Center (SWC), in the nearby community of Almere, an area which incidentally, has an all-fibre broadband network. The SWC has been conceived as an experiment in using computing technology to address climate change, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 20:00:12

A Very Useful Preparation List

From Alpha Rubicon : NOTE: The following is copyrighted by Rob Hanus and is used here with permission. You can find the original document here: http://www.thepreparednessblog.com/capability-checklist - which is also where it is kept updated. The Capability Checklist Project "To be prepared as best as possible, [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 00:20:00

THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EXPLODING INEVITABLE

THE EPIC SAGA OF THE SURFERS There is a philosophy of the world that states that there is a common realization about the interconnectivity of all things physical and spiritual—that there is a unity at a profound level—and that our actions have somewhat infinite repercussions. This discipline is known as Zen [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 12:55:25

Ebooks Usage Trends And Statistics - The Springer Report 2008

Are eBooks being adopted? Is eBook usage increasing? Is the Amazon Kindle a total flop? Is the eBooks long promised revolution a rapidly disappearing fad or is this a new industry that is gradually finding its proper niche? What future awaits eBooks hardware and software producers and what should you expect in the near future from eBooks content [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 09:20:00

Charity Begins at Home…or ‘Home Page’?

A ‘guest post’ from Steve Taylor, Director of Marketing & Communications at Sue Ryder Care ... of the perception from board level that the bright young things in the IT/Comms team will provide a plug-and-play, quick fix (or is that click fix?) via the likes Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Clearly [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 12:00:38

Sarah Palin and Joe Biden Complete Debate Transcript

The Ticket had a live-blog during this entire event, which is available here. Here's a quick video of some non-verbal language. The transcript comes below. Hey, you could have instant alert of this Ticket item and all others flashed directly to your cell free by going here to Twitter and registering [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 04:30:02

professional obligations of outside consultants (like myself) who work with educational organizations. Today’s post will offer some of my thoughts on the responsibilities of the school organizations that hire outside consultants. J. Dellicolli helpfully pointed us to the National Staff Development [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 16:12:11

Asian Surveying and Mapping-Mapping Ancient Egyptian Sites

Feb25 Here is an interesting and fun article I found at the Asian Surveying & Mapping website about Egyptologist using surveying techniques and ... , copyright 2009 ASM.A team of Egyptologists used GPS, total stations and imagery to solve mysteries ... / ae.htm for more information on Yale’s archaeological activities in Egypt.Hundreds of viper trails [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 23:07:48

Free Food for All, Langar Lunches in India

This article was written by Sarah Rich in February 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. [ temple ... grounds told us in no uncertain terms that the kitchen activities are absolutely without ritual [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 18:52:28

Trust Is Not To Be Given Lightly… To Anyone…

I kept these two articles around for a rainy day or a slow day… and, as luck would have it, it’s raining outside now. Gloomy. There are two main thoughts (one in each article) that I would like you to walk away with: PRIVACY DOES NOT TRUMP PARENTING! [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 16:24:04

Reactions on my rant vs. the (PFF) Pera For Football

I wrote this early in 2008 after having obtained a confidential document from FIFA. It came out in the Business Mirror. You should all read this ... Indoor games. WE were the first to compete for the Philippines in the SEA games for futsal ... , captain of the former RP Women's Futsal Team:I know that you are all sad and disappointed [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 11:13:00

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/10/2009

The reactions to Israel’s offensive in Gaza are still being played out all over the world. South Asia seems to be particularly prone to lavish expressions of outrage.Thanks to C. Cantoni, ESW, Fausta, Insubria, JD, Larwyn, VH, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Headlines and articles are below the fold [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 04:52:00

FIRST Wild Card Tour: Assaulted by Joy by Stephen Simpson

It is time to play a Wild Card! Every now and then, a book that I have chosen to read is going to pop up as a FIRST Wild Card Tour. Get dealt into the game! (Just click the button!) Wild Card Tours feature an author and his/her book’s FIRST chapter! This one keeps threatening to jump to the top of my TBR pile! [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 01:05:17

100 ways to cut the Council Tax without cutting key services.

Let me count the ways. Please do add your own ideas. 1. Freeze recruitment. 2. Scrap political advisers. 3. Cut the number of press officers. One rule would be to make sure you have no more than the number of local newspaper reporters. An alternative idea would be to get rid of the press office altogether [more...]

Date: 2009-02-13 07:22:46

VP Debate Joe Biden vs Sarah Palin

I betcha! you will have something to say about the debate wink* Who do you think win the debate? Do you think they might need linear motion? I'm sure they don't! But we need a miracle about our economy right now. Transcript of Palin, Biden debate source: cnn WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The vice presidential candidates, Democratic Sen [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 04:51:42

DrumBeat: January 30, 2009

Mexico’s Peso Stuns UBS With Biggest Drop Since 1995 (Bloomberg) -- The steepest decline in Mexico’s peso in 13 years blindsided everyone from UBS AG economists to Gustavo Huitron, the local marketing manager for Mercedes-Benz. After weakening 20 percent last year, the currency fell to a record low of 14.4484 per dollar today [more...]

Date: 2009-01-30 13:53:04

Liveblogging the Harvard Internet & Politics conference part 1

I'm here at the Internet & Politics conference at Harvard University, co-hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & ... . Marshall Ganz (Harvard Kennedy School) and Jeremy Bird (Obama for America). Building Collective Capacity ... , intentional, and can be learned from To what extent can new technologies support these activities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 16:20:39

200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis

With Wall Street’s recent decline and the economy in such an uncertain place, many people are fearful of losing their jobs and lifelong investments. There are countless simple online services and tools dedicated to helping you take control of these elements [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 22:24:58

identi.ca vs. twitter

I’ve used identi.ca micro-blogging for the past five months. I’m switching to twitter . Why identi.ca? ... roadmap, an early consideration was how to distribute quick (lightweight) intra-team updates. Virtually the entire development team would be within the same building; of those, virtually all would [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 01:02:57

Enterprise 2.0 - Enabling change or part of the problem?

This is my slide deck and script for the The 6th Annual Enterprise Architecture Conference in Sydney on 3 September 2008. Enterprise 2.0 - Enabling change or part of the problem? View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: innovation change) We all know the world of business is experiencing massive change [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 03:20:19

Statement from Councilman Gentile on Veteran’s Memorial Pier Ferry Feasibility Study

Click here to read statement Read this latest posting from GreenBrooklyn on the status on ferry service for 69th Street Pier.  Click here. Our new Congressman, Mike McMahon, is dedicated to using the stimulus package to help support the ferry service reinstatement at 69th Street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 15:07:11

[vacancy] Digest Number 3335

vacancy Messages In This Digest (25 Messages) 1. Talisman Energy Inc.; 3 positions From: Black Jack 2. Process & Pipeline Engineer From: Black Jack 3 [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 17:08:00

ScamBuster 90

Attn: Beneficiary, it was resolved and agreed that your inheritance/contract payment of US$7M would be released to you on a method of payment, which tag name reads ” ATM CARD “.you are advised to re-confirm your name, address, AND phone number to claim your fund. - Dr [more...]

Date: 2009-03-11 10:37:25

Mayor Hotline February 14 to 20

WHO PAYS WHEN COPS TRASH HOUSE?, MASONS OPPOSE 10th St ... from 8:30-9:30 pm in the evening. I just wanted to know if there were any activities around it. I’m the Greenhouse Gas Action Team Coordinator for ITD and I had an employee ask about sending [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 22:21:58

Embodied Team Building Training and Team Building Tips

What does the body have to do with team building? Traditionally a lot of team building exercises, ... being build trust and coordinate as a group. This is why in every culture in the world has dancing ... . So how does this apply to office life today? Does traditional physical team building hold the answer [more...]

Date: 2009-01-29 10:00:00

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