Author: timbatchelder

  • #The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

      By FAST COMPANY STAFF, fastcompany.com   When it comes to social media success, the long game is more valuable than the short game, according to Hill Holliday’s SVP of digital strategy, Mike Proulx.   “Many brands and indi­vid­u­als mis­tak­en­ly obsess about short­cut tac­tics to gain f…   http://flpbd.it/NcEEF   #The Rules Of Social Media:…

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  • Washington, District Of Cycling

    Washington, District Of Cycling Emily Badger, fastcompany.com Few modes of trans­porta­tion are more basic than the hum­ble bike. Heck, peo­ple have been strad­dling them for some 200 years, far longer than we’ve been mov­ing about town in street­cars, sub­ways, or our own cars. And so this seems a bit… http://flpbd.it/Nytg8 Related articles Top reasons to…

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  • The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing

        The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing fastcocreate.com Rob van Kranenburg outlines a brief history of the next big thing—the internet of things—and argues that U.S. industry and government should be taking a more active role in its evolution. About a decade ago, I would stand…

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  • The Limits of Science—and Scientists

    The Limits of Science—and Scientists | The Crux discovermagazine.com By Ananyo Bhat­tacharya, chief online edi­tor of Nature mag­a­zine. “About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.” The last line of Lud­wig Wittgen­stein’s Trac­ta­tus tends to res­onate with sci­en­tists, scep­tics,… http://flpbd.it/YNwwJ Related articles Final Trac Integrates with AccuTitle Software in Seamless Release Tracking Ordering…

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  • Vinod Khosla: Machines will replace 80 percent of doctors

    Vinod Khosla: Machines will replace 80 percent of doctors By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Science Machines will replace 80 per­cent of doc­tors in a health­care future that will be dri­ven by entre­pre­neurs, not med­ical pro­fes­sion­als, accord­ing to Sun Microsys­tems co-founder Vinod Khosla. Khosla, who wrote an arti­cle enti­t… http://flpbd.it/glxT9 Related articles Top Ten Healthcare Quotes for…

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  • How the internet is changing the fine art marketplace

    How the internet is changing the fine art marketplace By Nathan Hurst, wired.co.uk Technology Five years ago, Jen Bek­man found­ed 20×200 on the belief that every­one should be able to col­lect art, and that the inter­net could help them do so. While nei­ther the old­est nor the biggest place to buy prints online (art.com has……

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  • How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder

      How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media     Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com   Pres­i­dent Barack Obama man­aged to steal an impres­sive amount of Gov. Mitt Rom­ney’s press cov­er­age with a few, cheap social media tricks, includ­ing the most retweet­ed post of the con­ven­tion. In com­par­i­son to the Repub­li­can Nation­al…   http://flpbd.it/x1nqQ…

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  • Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity

    Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity ever by Donna Tam, cnet.com The pres­i­dent breaks all the rules, breaks a Red­dit record, and draws at least 5.3 mil­lion views, news stats reveal. Pres­i­dent Barack Obama broke all the cam­paign­ing rules when he held an unmod­er­at­ed Q&A ses­sion on one of the… http://flpbd.it/NRaon Related articles How To…

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  • Personal Genome Project picks up participants

    Personal Genome Project – Homepage. Related articles Personal Genome Project Posts DNA Info Online (npr.org) Years to Regeneration and Antiaging via Stem Cells and Gene therapy per George Church (nextbigfuture.com) George Church, Harvard genetics professor, banters with Stephen Colbert (boston.com) Open-source science helps San Carlos father’s genetic quest (mercurynews.com) Do-it-yourself biotech: Ellen Jorgensen at TEDGlobal…

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  • Google and Landsat Create Time-Lapse Videos

    Google and Landsat Create Time-Lapse Videos Showing 40 Years of Environmental Destruction in the Amazon | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle…

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  • In China More Than 30 Million People Live in Eco-Friendly Caves

    In China More Than 30 Million People Live in Eco-Friendly Caves | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From…

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  • Cleantech Experts On Romney’s Energy Plan

    Cleantech Experts On Romney’s Energy Plan: ‘A Political Document Not Worth Serious Analysis’ By Climate Guest Blogger on Aug 30, 2012 at 12:21 pm, thinkprogress.org by Wal­ter Frick, via BostIn­no The cen­tral ener­gy chal­lenge we face as a nation and a plan­et is the tran­si­tion away from fos­sil fuels, which con­tribute to cli­mate change, to clean…

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  • Welcome to the new reputation economy

    Welcome to the new reputation economy (Wired UK) By Rachel Botsman, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Sep­tem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flpbd.it/oQYQN Related articles TrustCloud: Harness Technology to…

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  • Netatmo Urban Weather Station

    Netatmo Urban Weather Station tells iOS users when it’s safe to brave the great outdoors (video) Jon Fingas, engadget.com We haven’t seen weath­er sta­tions gar­ner the same level of clever mobile inte­gra­tion as other pieces of house­hold gear — like, say, ther­mostats. Netat­mo wants its newly avail­able Urban Weath­er Sta­tion to inject a sim­i­lar dose…

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  • Sony Action Cam

    Sony Action Cam – Digital Camcorders cnet.com Its exis­tence wasn’t a secret, but Sony’s Action Cam is now no longer a pro­to­type. The super­com­pact cam­corder mea­sures 2 inch­es high by 2.6 inch­es deep by 0.9 inch wide and looks more like Con­tour’s and JVC’s mod­els than the blocky Go… http://flpbd.it/pInKj Related articles Sony Action Cam…

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