10 Ways to Make Good Ideas Happen
Scott Belsky from Behance recently spoke at The Feast about making good ideas happen. The following 10 suggestions would be helpful to anyone in a creative field:
Listening to Market Predictions: Do Not Get Caught Picking Your Bottom
The media is having a field day with the market decline. People who wouldn’t normally be interested are watching CNBC or Bloomberg TV and reading the business section. If you are making predictions of Dow 2000 or Dow 1000 you will get on TV or quoted in the newspaper. Now there is also a big…
Why the World isn’t Over . . . Yet
There are a number of environemntal, political and financial problems in the world that its most resourceful, patient and intelligent people should address. Luckily, many of these people are on the case, as was evident at the 2008 Pop!Tech conference.
Surprising Advice from Pop!Tech Speakers
There were a number of suggestions the speakers at the 2008 Pop!Tech Conference gave the audience about leading a more socially- and environmentally-conscious life. Here are six particularly surprising ones:
13 Random Things I Learned at Pop!Tech
If you give American kids a tough math problem to solve and tell them they have fifteen minutes to solve it, they will give up on it after two, Chinese kids will still be working on it after the 15 minutes have passed. –Malcolm Gladwell
The Culture of Pop!Tech
Pop!Tech was a little like the Sundance Film Festival and a little like three days of business school.
12 Interesting Things I Learned at The Feast
Photo: Rachel Feierman, Creative Commons The Feast was a day-long social innovation conference that took place on Thursday, October 16th at Scandinavia House in New York City. There were 12 presentations and summarizing each one would make for a very long article, so I’m simply going to touch on twelve interesting things that I learned:
Beyond Growth: The Wealth of Community
The premise of Bill McKibben’s book Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future is that the economic axiom “growth is good” is no longer true.
The Feast: Social Innovation Conference
Website copy for social innovation conferences can get a little wordy, so I’d like to take a stab at explaining this thing called "The Feast" in simple language.
The National Do Not Call Registry
We once reported on a company that prevents junk mail called GreenDimes, but equally annoying, if not as environmentally harmful, are telemarketing calls. For those of you who don’t already know about this, you can register your number on the National Do Not Call Registry to prevent these calls. And the registration never expires.
The Thomas L. Friedman Energy Revolution Infomercial
To see Thomas Friedman speak, as I did at The 92nd Street Y on Sunday night, is to witness a live infomercial. His product? The ET (Energy Technology) Revolution.
Book Review: Finding the Sweet Spot
Finding the Sweet Spot By Dave Pollard Chelsea Green Publishing 208 pages $17.95
RNC Update: Fascist America?
It’s quiet in the Twin Cities today, quiet and cold.
Amy Goodman and Democracy in Action
Last night, at around 5 p.m. journalist Amy Goodman was arrested in St. Paul.
The Big Boy Defense Doesnt Even Work in Court
Photo: alincolnt, Creative Commons, Flickr In a recent article, Scientific American asks the question: “If people come to believe that they don’t have free will, what will the consequences be for moral responsibility?”
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resiliency
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resiliency By Rob Hopkins Green Books 240 pages $24.95
The Rich ARE Different: Its Called Borderline Personality Disorder
“In a game of give and get,” the PhysOrg.com reporter emphasizes: “The brains of people with borderline personality disorder often don’t get it.”
Why You Should Become My Facebook Friend
“What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a ‘modem’, can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo” – Dave Barry, American writer.
Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem
I recently read Bionomics; Economy as Ecosystem by Michael Rothschild cover to cover, twice. I have never read a non-fiction text so enthralling; and this one is about economics.
The Apple Store and the Future of Retail
I went to the Apple (AAPL – $175.92) store today to get a new laptop charger (the old charger’s wires are frayed near the power port and it doesn’t work anymore).
Finding Our Voices: Stories of American Dissent
Photo: jcolman, Creative Commons, Flickr One of the things that bothered me in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the lack of debate over the merits of the invasion.
Green for All: Linking the PhDs and the PhDos
Van Jones, the evangelical founder of Green for All, gave an inspiring sermon-esque talk at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC on June 23-24, 2008 addressing "How Social Technology Can Help Solve Global Problems."
Zipcar and the Economy of Sharing
At the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC on June 23-24, 2008, Robin Chase, the creator of Zipcar, talked about how we can use social technologies to tackle and solve social problems.
The Earth is Not Flat
The great thing about Arianna Huffington, besides everything, is that she practices what she preaches. She champions opinionated journalism and she herself is an unapologetically opinionated journalist. In fact, she probably would have been proud of that first line because it’s not objective and it doesn’t claim to be. To her, objective journalism is dishonest.
How Technology is Changing Politics
When I told a friend I was going to the Personal Democracy Forum she said, “Whoa.”