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Russell Williams – you see what you want to see
Thank God. It took less than a week for the media circus to leave town. The homocidal pervert is in jail for a long time and the sober reflection can begin. It’s hardly my place to analyse and assess. The situation is far to complicated for someone with my general lack of professional training and…
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Discipline
This is really hard. I’d forgotten the discipline involved with regularly writing to a blog (it’s been about 4 years since recursiveprogress first went off the air). In the ensuing time, although I’ve developed a lot of thoughts and ideas that can be brought to bear on a variety of subjects and current events, the…
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Giving thanks
Thanksgiving weekend at my house is a full weekend affair. The proximity of two October and November birthdays means that the annual pumpkin pie extravaganza gets a Saturday and Sunday warm-up of dinners and elaborate cake. Most other days of the year, I try to lay off the carbs. In addition to the standards of…
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“Internet Trends” — speed and movement
To prove just how plugged in I am, last night I was reviewing a Morgan Stanley report that was presented at the CM Summit–New York City in EARLY JUNE. (How much could have changed, really?) In any case, the report is a typically astounding accumulation of data about the macro-economic, stock market, manufacturing, purchasing, and…
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The meme of Memes
Now I’m sitting in a “conversation” about Understanding Internet Memes. At this point, having had everyone in the room introduce themselves and describe why they’re interested in the session (BTW, almost everyone is a journalist.), we were given a definition by the Rocketboom session moderators. The definition acknowledges Richard Dawkins’ creation of the idea/word and…
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Social anthropology
About four years ago I was at another conference, Future Trends, when I first encountered the people and ideas around social anthropology. This is essentially the study of the culture going on around you. There’s an obvious value for branding, marketing, innovation, etc. And it makes complete sense. But what the scientific sounding name really implies…
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Web2.0 Expo (New York)
At O’Reilly’s Web2.0 in New York this week. So far, on Workshops day, the content has been pretty good for a moderate geek like myself. The hardcore stuff is coming Tuesday to Thursday for data analyst types, UI/UX developers, social media coders, and for (Web) business strategists. Having never been to an O’Reilly event, let…
