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Get Back in the Box
says Douglas Rushkoff in his upcoming book of the same name.
Kris Krug interviewed Rushkoff last week just after he wrapped up writing. Apparently the author is going to explore how we're undergoing a renaissance of collaboration where identity is defined by connection to others. Douglas seems to be pulling together a lot of ideas that have been bubbling up in the blogosphere (a
connected creative/technology class,
social networks) but is business ready to hear his message? Sounds like he'll be well received by many webby people, but it remains to be seen how long the traditional definitions he challenges will remain - one generation, two maybe?
You may remember Rushkoff from the PBS Frontline series'
Merchants of Cool and
Persuaders. He's been discussed quite a bit before here on MeFi,
9 times in fact.
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 12:40 PM on April 22, 2005
(19 comments)
Talk Energy
is a filter site for discussion about sustainable energy. Their goal is to get a million people worldwide talking about energy. Members can post to a
main discussion page, create profile pages including their own journals and indentify their connections with other members. The chattiest people get free samples of neat products to
review, closing the communication loop for green companies. They're also giving away $50,000 USD in home energy renovation funds to one lucky person.
Innovators have their
own space to collaborate on ideas and projects. They're even offering
partnerships consisting of private discussion areas for any non profit that wants one.
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 8:08 PM on June 1, 2004
(7 comments)
Microsoft's IE team is calling for input
into the future of their browser. Over lunch with
Robert Scoble they communicated that they're working hard on security patches. So where do you come in?
"The team is looking to work with community members to improve Internet Explorer. That means blogs. That means taking harsh feedback. That means having a dialog about the future that's frank and as open as possible."
With an opportunity like this we should forgo mere whining and name calling, and participate.
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 9:40 PM on January 14, 2004
(46 comments)
The Smoking Gun reveals that Murder Inc Records is
owned by Kenneth McGriff, criminal extrodinaire and head of the notorious Queens crack dealing Supreme Team gang. The IRS papers claim that he was the one that engineered the shooting of rapper 50 Cent.
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 12:18 PM on May 3, 2003
(17 comments)
The Vancouver Company that created
ReBoot will be making a
CGI Spider-Man cartoon for
MTV. Neil Patrick Harris as Spidey, Lisa Loeb as Mary Jane and Ian Ziering as Harry Osborn will inhabit a
"seemingly realistic neon lit city of the immediate future". Will this show set a new standard of production for cartoons based on comics? Will MJ wear glasses?
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 1:19 PM on July 30, 2002
(23 comments)
Want to read
Marvel comics without paying for them?
Sign up for
dotComics, a flash based comic download manager/viewer. You can read Spider-Man, X-Men, Elektra, Incredible Hulk and even issues of the new Wolverine Origin series all without the racking guilt of media "piracy". Ahoy, matey!
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 10:17 AM on June 5, 2002
(5 comments)
Since 1995, a growing number of researchers have hunted ghosts across 4 states as
South Jersey Ghost Research. Their website claims a
long list of equipment. Are they huckstering hoaxers or the real deal? A 1999 New York Times
article didn't make the call. What's everyone's opinion?
[via gillan.blogspot.com]
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 6:41 PM on April 18, 2002
(27 comments)
In a world of frustratingly cyclic bloodshed,
peacemakers show the way according to an article by William Pfaff at the IHT. AC Grayling at The Guardian says that true heroes are
those brave enough to make peace. With terrorism and counter terroism raising the temperature of rhetoric and war across the globe, will a new wisdom emerge where cooler heads prevail?
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 11:09 AM on March 19, 2002
(9 comments)
words! words! words!
is a new magazine launched by our favourite texan-in-new-zeland
ben brown. billing itself as a "
street guide for modern literature", the first issue features articles by many talented online writers and is only $8 (with shipping) with a pay pal account. if you want to help spread the "word!", download the
pdf flyer and paste it to cars, walls and people.
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 9:18 AM on August 21, 2001
(6 comments)
14 year old boy dies at "tough love" boot camp
for troubled teens, after becoming so delirious that he believed indians were chasing him. he passed out from dehydration in above 40 heat and died of suspected heart failure. earlier, when he screamed that he wanted to go home
"they put some mud in his mouth and kicked him". are these increasingly popular boot camps justified?
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 3:33 PM on July 9, 2001
(20 comments)
the arrogance of wealth
from of all places the notoriously faux-american
national post.
"Be nice to business and rich people. They pay the bills."
excuse me, but i don't see any millionaires paying
my bills.
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 3:56 AM on July 3, 2001
(111 comments)
The cyborg manifesto
scares me. I first read it in this month's
adbusters magazine, then online. It paints a provocative picture of our future. Will we look back on this as the just the beginning or is it vapor-futurism?
flash 4 required
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 4:07 PM on March 20, 2001
(23 comments)
New adminstration, same old barbarism.
Ariel Sharon's government is urging the Israeli parliament to legalise torture by security servies members on Arab detainees. How will denying the basic human rights of Arabs
without even a trial help the peace process?
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 12:44 AM on March 11, 2001
(21 comments)
Don't look behind that wall
, Mr. Olympic inspector. In advance of the ongoing assesment by 17 Olympic inspectors, thousands of unwanted people have been tossed into a detention center in China, without trial. For a month, 500 to 600 people a day have been tossed in. Human Rights in China interviewed former inmates of the detention centre, and they reported
"There were no bathing facilities, food was poured from buckets and fought over by mice, and beatings with leather belts were common."
Is this what China does to "put on its game face"?
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 3:56 AM on February 24, 2001
(3 comments)
17 International Olympic Committee inspectors
are in China reviewing its bid for the 2008 Olympic Games. Should human rights concerns be a factor in their decision? Does a sporting body have a duty to use compliance with the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights as a gauge to measure hosting worthiness for any country (not just China)?
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 7:08 AM on February 22, 2001
(7 comments)
woo! blogvoices is staying open
thanks to the good folks at pyra. well, im just going to go right out and say that this has made
my day. way to go chris and pyrates!
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 8:45 PM on January 26, 2001
(23 comments)
i did some snooping around on the cbc website and i found
this and
this. the first is the graphic that they used after the liberals won, the second is the graphic they had ready if the liberals lost.
hmm, chretien looks more tired in the second one. perhaps he is looking to some martin supporters on his left, waiting to pummel him? hmm...martinites attacking from the left just doesn't make any sense!
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 7:42 AM on November 28, 2000
(10 comments)
Stockwell Day
and his racist pals. No wonder the Canadian Alliance fields the kind of candidates who talk about an "asian invasion".
posted to MetaFilter by will
at 10:05 PM on November 26, 2000
(19 comments)
