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February 21 to 27, 2005
Here's a brilliant business and innovative
social
practice - I haven't heard of any historical precedents for this
social
role. The business is "Wingwomen", where shy bachelors pay $50 an hour fo...
February 7 to 13, 2005
George Bush explains his plan to save
social
Security...
January 24 to 30, 2005
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand bookstore? Now that so many book sales are online, how about putting the bookstore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the bookstore? A suitabl...
January 10 to 16, 2005
How about introducing "bike stations" into areas, for commuting and
social
izing...
December 13 to 19, 2004
Technology that helps fight "griefers", or people in online multiplayer games that do nothing but kill and loot, frustrating everyone else. Implications for
social
systems...
November 8 to 14, 2004
Advertisers are also wondering how to reach the "mobile phone generation". They're worried that cell phones are making people more self-centered. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
The basis for a new breed of software: "Exploring
social
Networks with Pattern Discovery Algorithms"...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
Cheap projection technology is giving rise to "guerilla drive-ins". This is a symptom of this generation's need for commerce-free, authentic culture and
social
izing...
June 14 to 20, 2004
Never mind the latest tech fad of creating personal
social
networks - what continues to be needed is software that helps societies network and think smarter...
May 17 to 23, 2004
How iTunes sharing is creating music- based
social
networks in colleges...
February 23 to 29, 2004
The cat's out of the bag: the first decent mainstream article on the brilliant BitTorrent, the file sharing network that "makes trading movies a breeze". As well as gigabytes of other stuff as well...
This has been pretty popular, but for those who don't know... DJ Danger Mouse released the critically acclaimed "The Grey Album", a remix of rap vocals and the Beatles' White Album. EMI demands a hal...
"Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace...
November 3 to 9, 2003
I'm currently reading their "Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based
social
Marketing" - its author was in Hawaii recently...
October 27, 2003
Are you a natural networker? Some people are natural "connectors" - in
social
networks, the important people aren't necessarily who you know, but who you vaguely know...
October 14, 2003
A great, great explanation of how this nation's electrical grid works, why more large-scale blackouts are predicted, the effects of deregulation, and yet another example of capitalism ignorin...
September 15, 2003
Computer visionary Stafford Beer coined the term "shareware". He also invented Cybersyn, an Internet-like
social
ist computer system created for the revolutionary Chilean government in the earl...