May 8
If the deep-linking doesn't work, skip ahead to 15:25 and watch until 21:25. Just another story about how the world is shifting underneath the feet of people who are making decisions with a mentality...
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Mar 8
This story is interesting news. Not that I like the idea of turning every single thing we like into a "right" to having it (personally, I would be happier if rights were only checks against actions...
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Mar 1
Here's another example of the upside-down pyramid in action, this time from Portugal. The Portuguese, Brazilians and various former Portuguese colonies periodically enter into negotiations over the...
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Feb 24
Here's an interesting TED Talk from David Cameron about the upside-down pyramid, though he doesn't use that term:
While he is looking at the whole thing from a conservative small-government...
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Feb 4
That enrollments aren't effected by the offering of free online courses is not really surprising. Why? Universities are a social filtering mechanism and a degree is a qualification, not the medium by...
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Feb 3
The state of South Australia recently instituted effectively banning anonymous political speech on the internet. They Government subsequently backed off the law due to outrage at the law expressed on...
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Jan 25
Here's another example of the upside-down pyramid in action. Protesters performing a virtual march "on top of" their real march.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/visualize_dissent_turkish_users_protest_censorship...
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Jan 11
Instruire la démocratie, ranimer s'il se peut ses croyances, purifier ses moeurs, régler ses movements, substituer peu à peu la science des affaires à son inexpérience, la connaissance de ses vrais...
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Jan 4
In a New York Times Op-Ed on Saturday, Bono provided us with a top ten list of things he thought would be occupying us for the next ten years. Two items in the list struck me as interesting, let's take...
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