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10 right-wingers who got the election hilariously wrong – Salon.com By AlterNet Staff„ salon.com So much for hunches and gut instincts. Maybe in 2016, these would-be pollsters will read Nate Silver like adults We really had a contest between the reality-based community, and a conservative movement that had convinced itself that… RT @Salon: On Monday,…
When the Nerds Go Marching In James Fallows, theatlantic.com How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama’s reelection The Obama campaign’s technologists were tense and tired. It was game day and everything was going wrong. Josh Thayer… When the Nerds Go Marching In – Alexis…
Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences core77.com Today’s global financial and social crises demand innovation not only in public services, but within the whole bureaucratic, administrative system of public governance. In order to respond effectively to a changing context of… RT @core77: Innovating Policy with Creativity and Social Sciences – Paper by @Nesta_UK &…
Gmail Facelift: New Features of Gmail Steve Dotto, lifehack.org Google is taking dead aim at Web 2.0 services like Dropbox as they expand the capabilities of Google Drive and integrate it more tightly with their other services like Gmail. There is a new refined Gmail compose screen, which opens the door to… RT @lifehackorg: Gmail…
2012 Broadband Index: States Making Progress On Boosting Broadband Blair Christie, huffingtonpost.com Imagine a future where every classroom in America has a high-speed connection to the internet, where students have the entire catalog of books and videos at their fingertips. A future where access to the highest quality health care… http://flip.it/5nSKe Related articles Comcast VP…
Smartest Cities In America: Fast Company Ranks Brainiest Cities Aaron Sankin, huffingtonpost.com How brainy is your ‘hood? That’s the question posed by Dr. Boyd Cohen in a recent article published in Fast Company. Cohen looked at cities across North America and rated them on a “smart city” scale based on characteristics ranging… http://flip.it/S4G4J Related articles…
The lottery of life economist.com International Where to be born in 2013 Warren Buffett, probably the world’s most successful investor, has said that anything good that happened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right country, the United… RT @TheEconomist: Trending: Which country will provide the best…
Drugmakers Gave Republican While Employees Backed Obama Bloomberg By The Numbers » 76 The percent share of global investors who say President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders will reach a short-term agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff., bloomberg.com Photograph by JB Reed/Bloomberg Political committees controlled by U.S. drugmakers including Johnson & Johnson and Eli…
Tech Workers See Opportunity as Health-Care Law Kicks In By Jeff Green & Shannon Pettypiece -, bloomberg.com John Tricas said he heard opportunity knocking and learned networking software two decades ago, when it was the “next big thing.” Now he senses a similar opening as the health-care overhaul law takes effect. In September, the… http://flpbd.it/1fR6x…
Big Data: You Have No Idea How Much It Will Change Your Life Juan Enriquez, inc.com Futurist Juan Enriquez on the mind-blowing changes that Big Data is about to unleash on your business, your health, and life in general. Most modern humans are now attempting to cram more data into their heads in a single…
Eric V. Holtzclaw, inc.com LEAN FORWARD Instead, I give candidates permission to stalk me. They should find out what I’m up to, track me down, introduce themselves, let me get to know them. It works. People often ask me how to get a job at my company, User Insight. T… http://flpbd.it/JhhGm Why I Never Post…
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 Wondrous Beauty Of Microscopic Plant Seeds By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com U.K. artist Rob Kesseler is working with the Millennium Seed Bank to illustrate the remarkable, nearly invisible world of microscopic botany. As long as humans have made art, they’ve looked to the flora and fauna around them for inspiration.… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign, The…
What Obama’s Victory Means for Tech Brian Barrett, gizmodo.com Barack Obama’s victory last night has far-reaching fiscal, social, and military implications, all of which are familiar to anyone who kept at least one eye open during any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech… What Obama’s Victory Means for…
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…
Harvard Stores 70 Billion Books in Record Breaking DNA Bio-Library the Size of a Thumbnail | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building GreatEmerald says:, inhabitat.com DNA photo from Shutterstock A team from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has discovered a way to store 70 billion books in a space…
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