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Links and Tweets for the Week — November 29, 2009

Posted on November 29, 2009 by Dave Pollard

“Stumble” from the Mari Lwyd series by Clive Hicks-Jenkins PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION’S COLLAPSE The Transition Movement’s Founder at TED: “What is most distressing when I speak with climate scientists is the increasingly terrified look I see in their eyes as … Continue reading →

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Links and Tweets of the Week: October 17, 2009

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: October 17, 2009 PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION’S COLLAPSE The Cascading Crises of Civilizational Collapse: An excellent, fact-packed, carefully-argued explanation of peak oil and how it will, in combination with other crises of this century, bring … Continue reading →

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Links and Tweets of the Week: September 12, 2009

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: September 12, 2009 image from Does Congo Matter? by Emily Troutman PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION’S COLLAPSE Not a Problem, a Predicament: Sharon Astyk introduces some complex adaptive systems thinking in her post on approaches … Continue reading →

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The Psychology of Twitter: Doubly Addictive

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG The Psychology of Twitter OK, let me start by saying I’m a Twitter user and fan. But something about it disturbs me. Like the near-defunct Usenet, the now-collapsing MySpace, and the soon to collapse under its own weight Facebook, … Continue reading →

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A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization A lot of organizations are struggling with what to do with a host of costly, high-maintenance technologies that they have introduced in the last decade, hoping … Continue reading →

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Living in the Here and Now

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Living in the Here and Now Mandala of Being, based on a sketch © Richard Moss I started today to write a rant about Obama, and about the mainstream media — a complaint that until we give up relying … Continue reading →

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Links of the Week: March 21, 2009

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Links of the Week: March 21, 2009 ecards, from the folks who brought you The Onion (marketing slogan: “when you care enough to press ‘send’”); thanks to Ross Mayfield for the link Bye, Sweet Dog: Astonishing, heart-wrenching description of … Continue reading →

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Links for the Week — March 8, 2009

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Links for the Week — March 7, 2009 12,000 year old frieze from Gobekli Tepe stone circle excavation, Turkey, which archaeologists think might be the ‘garden of Eden’ and/or the birthsite of our civilization Scrambling to catch up after … Continue reading →

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Walking Away

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Dave Pollard

BLOG Walking Away Photo by Second Life artist Nevar Whitfield Several of you gave me a hard time over my article on co-ops, specifically because I said I wouldn’t personally be part of the co-op movement. I’m not sure whether … Continue reading →

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Links for the Week: Saturday, November 15, 2008

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Dave Pollard

We Have Seen the Lolcats, and They Are Us: Jay Dixit and New Yorker cartoonist Bob Mankoff ruminate on the appeal of animal cartoons in a wonderful article on Salon. “The animals aren’t animals at all, they’re stand-ins,” explains Mankoff. … Continue reading →

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