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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Just came back from the energizing brainstorming session around creating a Maker/Hacker space in Savannah. Another great event organized by Jake and his team of the Creative Coast. Thanks.
The energy in the room was high and the wish list got longer and longer.
The audience was diverse from teenagers to retirees ...
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
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What motivates me to run Future Salons is the hope to find parameters for a future that works for all.
This is something that our current socio-economic system, free market capitalism, is clearly not delivering. US poverty rate went up ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Check out Will Richardson TEDxNY talk. He is not the first and will probably not be the last to point out how our school system is broken. It is built for a time long past.
Will quotes Eric Hoffer:
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves ...
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Cross posted at the Future Salon.
Just learned from Joseph Mornin that Lawrence Lessig will be speaking this week at several venues in the Bay Area. He'll talk about his new book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It, and he'll sign copies after each talk.
Here's the schedule:
Monday 10/24 · Santa Clara ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
The other week, or actually it was the other month, I joined Refresh Savannah, a monthly gathering of people who are interested in positive change. Their guest of the day was Christian Kruse, the director responsible for Savannah’s Public Library, as well as the county library system.
I love libraries. They ...
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Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Just learned that Sal Kahn the amazing force behind the Kahn Academy is visiting SAP Labs in Palo Alto soon. Check out his TED talk. His winning formula has the potential to fundamentally change the way we educate our children as well as ourselves.
This is one of the few moments, ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2011
Happy Labor Day. A good time to take a step back and check out Douglas Rushkoff''s Life Inc. The Movie.
@johnrobb, @pixelbase (Michael) and @GregChase had a little Twitter exchange about this theme too.
Everyone's mind right now is on creating jobs.
John posted and I retweeted: Not sure jobs are the answer though. It just perpetuates dependency. ...
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Friday, August 5th, 2011
Cracked an egg that I thought was hard boiled. It wasn't. So I quickly poached it in the microwave.
It is really easy: To quickly make a poached egg in the microwave oven, you crack the egg into a small bowl that stands in a larger bowl that has some water ...
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
Today I got a message from Sara El-Amine. She writes:
I'm the national training director at Obama for America. My job is to develop the programs and resources our staff and volunteers use to teach others how to grow this campaign in their communities.
I'm writing because you or someone you know ...
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Sunday, July 10th, 2011
Scootering around in the outskirts of Savannah's historic district Nina and I stumbled upon these 6 guys playing bicycle polo. Just loved it and stayed for a while to watch them.
The sticks are mostly created out of old ski polls with a PVC pipe screwed to the end of it.
Some ...
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