Going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come…
There’s a Perfect Storm moment happening in the Kansas Cities – and Digital City Mechanics – will be there!
So long, and thanks to the bird
Independent commercial alternative rock radio in Boston is heading to the grave. The Boston Phoenix‘ WFNX has been sold to Clear Channel, which — says the press release — will expand its “footprint” in Boston. (Bambi vs. Godzilla comes to mind.) Boston Business Journal suggests the signal’s fate will be to carry country music or Spanish programming. But it doesn’t...
Department of Corrections
One nice thing about blogging is that you get to correct what you write. Tonight I put up a long post that I had second, third, fourth and fifth and additional thoughts about, and finally decided to kill. I do that a lot, actually. Just not usually with stuff I’ve already put up. But I...
An ecosystem – in Prezi
For your interactive pleasure:
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Roadmap to building a digital economy ecosystem on Prezi
Digital City ["insert your city or region here"]
The Digital City ["insert your city or region here"] pilot project would create and maintain a series of “New Economy Apprenticeships” which would lead to a “digital economy ecosystem” in ["insert your city or region here"]. This pilot project would … Continue reading →
Book week
The Intention Economy came out on Tuesday, and coverage has been spreading. Meanwhile, while I’ve been busy at IIW, where VRM mojo has been major. Notes from the many VRM sessions at #IIW14 will appear on this page soon. Meanwhile here are some excerpts pieces that ran this week. From Selling You: Not Just on Facebook, by Haydn Shaughnessy in Forbes —...
UnMoney Convergence Topics
Tomorrow is the UnMoney Convergence - an un-conference about all sorts of topics related to money, currency, land, value, reputation, identity. Here are the topics that people are hoping to discuss: Collaborative Consumption and Sharing new currencies How we can work together to make the movement for community currencies stronger and more synergistic. BACE Timebank-...
Two marketing essays
Here are a couple of essays – which further explain our system and what our purpose and goals are. “What do you do WITH all this bandwidth?” – our answer to the Gigabit networking, broadband infrastructure question. Building on existing … Continue reading →
Why the new iPad screen is the future of display
While everybody else is stuck in 1080p — aka “full HD” — Apple is thinking and developing on a bigger canvas than that — starting with the new iPad‘s 2048 x 1536 screen. They are always looking to move standard usage forward by large steps (where they change the whole market and win big in...
Clothing is a privacy system
Some clothing we need. That’s the kind that keeps us warm, or shielded from sunlight, or from getting our feet burned or cut up. Some clothing we wear because we like the way it makes us look, or how it gives us a way to conform with social conventions, or to flaut the same. But...
UnMoney & NewWallSt
March 11th. TEDx New Wall St. re-imagining banking re-built for the Information Age in Silicon Valley on a New Wall Street, as described in the attached press release, and here http://.www.TEDxNewWallStreet.org April 24th. UnMoney Convergence Fosters dialogue and collaboration among the range of interesting emerging ideas around money and exchange systems and to explore connections...
