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10 Steps To Transform Capitalism For The Better BY JOHN ELKINGTON AND CHARMIAN LOVE, fastcoexist.com Our economic system could better serve people and the planet. These are the small pivots we can take to make it more equitable. Editor’s Note In this series of five stories, Volans will highlight key presentations from the Breakthrough… RT…
Why Management Consultants Need To Make Apps, Take “Rep Rides,” And Study High-Selling Hair Farmers By David Zax, fastcompany.com To create real value, Bluewolf consultants shadow their clients’ representatives in the field. The results often involve mobile apps streamlining their work. The management consulting industry has been much maligned in recent years. The… RT @FastCompany:…
An Instagram Account Chillingly Documents The Sites Of U.S. Drone Strikes By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com The aptly named Dronestragram invites you to pause your visual consumption of your friends’ happy lives to consider a different kind of snapshot. There are no embedded reporter fly-alongs during a drone strike—no live CNN cameras on the grou… http://flpbd.it/KvVgM…
Amazing Photos Of Animals In The Wild, Snapped By Hidden Automatic Cameras BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com The Smithsonian’s Wild project uses advanced automated cameras to capture images of animals in their natural habitats as they go about their day. It’s a much better kind of specimen than a dead, stuffed animal. Bill McShea has traveled…
A Wearable Camera To Record Every Single One Of Life’s Precious Moments BY ZAK STONE, fastcoexist.com The Memoto is a “lifelogging camera” designed to capture and then re-stream everything that happens to you. Does this mean the end of memory as we know it? The cyborgian future that awaits us is full of enhancements to…
The Potential Health Benefits of Parasitic Gut Worms Brandon Keim, wired.com A dose of parasitic whipworms cured monkeys with chronic diarrhea, fixing immune systems gone haywire and offering a snapshot of the unexpected benefits worms — which might someday be used as living vaccines — offer to people. The Potential Health Benefits of Parasitic Gut…
The Tricorder X Prize: The Biggest Thing In Home Health Care Since The Thermometer? Cormac Foster, readwrite.com The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize promises to turn everybody into a Doctor McCoy by 2016. It could change everything about the way we practice medicine. But are we ready for it? If you’re a redshirt thinking you might…
The Crazy Secret Journal of John McAfee, Volume 1: The Girl Assassin Joel Johnson, gizmodo.com John McAfee, founder of the eponymous antivirus company, is being sought by police in Belize for questioning about the murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull. (First reported by Gizmodo yesterday.) In September … The Crazy Secret Journal of John McAfee,…
Review: The skinny on the iPad mini—it’s not the size that counts Jacqui Cheng, arstechnica.com Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously trashed 7” tablets as being “dead in the water” in 2010. Two years later, under the reign of new CEO Tim Cook, Apple has released its own miniature tablet—one that has a diagonal screen…
Which consultants built Romney’s “Project Orca?” None of them Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com In the wake of Mitt Romney’s Election Day defeat, frustration with the Romney campaign’s get-out-the-vote effort led to reports of an IT meltdown. Project Orca, the system the Romney campaign used to connect to an army of volunteer… RT @arstechnica: Which consultants built…
How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite running a campaign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Governor Mitt Romney’s presidential bid, President Barack Obama’s campaign under-spent Romney’s on IT products and services by $14.5 million, putting the… Related articles Obama’s Budget Would Cap Romney-Sized…
The Rising Science Of Social Influence — How Predictable Is Your Online Behaviour? Ferenc Huszár, techcrunch.com Techcrunch recently ran a piece by Michael Wu of Lithium. The following is a response written by Ferenc Huszar, who, prior to joining Peer Index PeerIndex as lead data scientist, was was a PhD student at the Machine Learning…
Giftly Looks to Disrupt Traditional Gift Card Market Elise Craig, xconomy.com Elise Craig When CEO Tim Bentley founded Giftly, a site that allows users to give gift certificates through recipients’ credit cards, he realized business would be heavily seasonal. The three big holidays for gift cards ar… http://flpbd.it/Ec3yc Related articles Hackers Team Up To Steal…
Let The App Creation Era Begin: Yapp Events App Builder Launches Out Of Beta Jordan Crook, techcrunch.com Remember the time when web sites were reserved for businesses, or niche designers? Before the days of Tumblr and WordPress and even MySpace (where I learned my first bit of basic code). Now anyone can easily build a…
Big Data News of the Week: Sexy and Social Data Scientists Gil Press, forbes.com In a week when tech vendors traditionally go on a news hiatus, the people who actually do big data came to the fore. InformationWeek reported on the gathering of nearly three dozen data scientists from academia and… http://flpbd.it/qnGXj Related articles Big…
Meet the Guy Who Owns Only 15 Things Yuka Yoneda, ecouterre.com If you’re thinking of adopting a more minimalist lifestyle for 2012, take a page from the playbook of Andrew Hyde, an itinerant blogger-cum-interface designer who owns only 15 items. Currently residing in New York City—he’s lived… http://flpbd.it/JE2Br Related articles Minimizing My Life (undeniableruth.com) 15…
(via Mitt Romney’s Facebook page is losing fans by the minute.) Related articles If Mitt Romney hadn’t been secretly filmed with his “47%” comment and won the presidency, we’d already be in WW3 by now. (alterman47.org) Mitt Romney Announce Plans to Run for Pope (godshmod.wordpress.com) Romney Called Tesla a “Loser” In the 2012 Presidential Debates.…
Evolution of the American voter: ‘The tectonic plates of politics are shifting’ Gary Younge in Albuquerque, guardian.co.uk As US demographics change – becoming less white, less religious, more urban – the electoral rhetoric of Republicans and Democrats is failing to keep up. Gary Younge reports Kasha Nelson, 31, was only supposed to go hiking with…
How I learned a language in 22 hours Joshua Foer, guardian.co.uk He’s never been good with languages, so can Joshua Foer really hope to learn Lingala in a day? “What do you know about where I come from?” That was one of the first questions I ever asked Bosco Mongousso, an Mbendjele pygmy who lives…
Republican right weeps over Obama’s victory – then begins internal civil war Paul Harris in Pella, guardian.co.uk The clash between diehard conservatives and modernisers will dictate the fate of a party which increasingly seems to appeal only to angry, older white Americans The town of Pella, Iowa, looks an almost too perfect vision of smalltown…
Obama’s data geeks add up to four more years John Naughton, guardian.co.uk Mastery of the numbers game meant the president’s team was able to exploit its database more effectively than Romney, reeling in £1bn in donations Some years ago I went to a lecture given by Professor David MacKay, who in addition to being a……
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