Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• The Discipline of Creativity [MIT Sloan Management Review] | Things I grab, motley collection

  … coming up with creative ideas on demand is only part of the answer. Just as crucial is how ideas link to action. In a business context, creativity is only useful when it leads to innovation. Managers must be able to apply creative thinking in …

• ▶ The Rapid Packing Container | Things I grab, motley collection

  via ▶ The Rapid Packing Container – YouTube.

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• The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013 | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from HBR Blog Network – Harvard Business Review: It’s always tempting at this time of year to try to make a definitive list of the best ideas from the past 12 months. But then we end up debating what counts as best — important? useful…

• Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

    In the more than 125 years since he first appeared, Sherlock Holmes has popped up everywhere from fan fiction set in outer space to screen adaptations like CBS’s “Elementary,” set in contemporary Manhattan. But now, following a legal ruling, t…

• 2013 was a lost year for tech | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Quartz: All in, 2013 was an embarrassment for the entire tech industry and the engine that powers it—Silicon Valley. Innovation was replaced by financial engineering, mergers and acquisitions, and evasion of regulations. Not a si…

• Writing an Amazing LinkedIn Recommendation | Things I grab, motley collection

  Most of us have worked with great colleagues, bosses and employees over the years who we’d be happy to recommend on LinkedIn (or anywhere, really) in a heartbeat if asked. Problem is, of course, that sitting down and writing said recommendation…

• Biometric security toy box by Grant Gibson | Things I grab, motley collection

  A couple of weeks ago Apple announced the new iPhone 5s with Touch ID, a fingerprint identity sensor that replaces the need for a conventional PIN number or password. It got me thinking… wouldn’t it be cool to make a lockable toy box with fingerp…

• Pricey nomadism | Things I grab, motley collection

  This year I decided to move from Cherbourg to Barneville-Carteret, from a medium size city to a small town. It so happened that the house I moved in had (and still hasn’t as of the end of 2013) no land line. I freaked out at first: no land line …

• New draft feature provides a gentler start for Wikipedia articles — Wikimedia blog | Things I grab, motley collection

  For most of Wikipedia’s history, we encouraged editors to create new encyclopedia articles by publishing immediately. Just find a page that doesn’t exist, type in content, and after you hit save, it’s shared with the world. This helped Wikipedia…

• Into the Bitcoin Mines – NYTimes.com | Things I grab, motley collection

  Bitcoins are invisible money, backed by no government, useful only as a speculative investment or online currency, but creating them commands a surprisingly hefty real-world infrastructure. “What we have here are money-printing machines,” said …

• Justine Sacco, or Internet’s “HYPERTROPHIED SENSE OF JUSTICE” | Things I grab, motley collection

  INTERNET’S “HYPERTROPHIED SENSE OF JUSTICE” A lot could be said about the excessive sense of virtue underlying our online collective conscience. For this, I draw upon The Online State of Nature, a thoughtful essay penned by Christian writer and…

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Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• State of the Media | Things I grab, motley collection

  Signs of the shrinking reporting power are documented throughout this year’s report. Estimates for newspaper newsroom cutbacks in 2012 put the industry down 30% since 2000 and below 40,000 full-time professional employees for the first time since…

• Final Adoption of Generalised Surveillance in France: a Disturbing Political Drift | Things I grab, motley collection

  The French President promulgated [fr] the 2014-2019 Defense Bill last night. Adoption of article 20 (former article 13) opening the door to generalised surveillance of communications and the failure to request its constitutional challenge demonst…

• Has a natural world wonder just been approved for destruction by the Australian government? | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT One of the natural wonders of the world is about to have 3 million cubic metres of seabed dumped on top of it. Who could forget, back in 2009, the launch of the “Best Job in the World”…

• Why Does Google Need So Many Robots? To Jump From The Web To The Real World | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: Why does Google need robots? Because it already rules your pocket. The mobile market, except for the slow rise of wearables, is saturated. There are millions of handsets around the world, each one connected to the Int…

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Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• Everyone wants to be the one messaging app that rules them all — but there’s no such thing, and never will be | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Gigaom: If you were engaged in something worthwhile on Thursday rather than paying attention to technology blogs, you might have missed the fact that photo-sharing app Instagram — now a subsidiary of social behemoth Facebook Inc…

• Remove Duplicate Rows in a Google Spreadsheet With This Script | Things I grab, motley collection

  Long spreadsheets with a lot of entries can sometimes mistakenly have multiple instances of the same data. It\’s easy to remove them in Google Spreadsheet by making a simple script, says MakeUseOf.P In Google Drive, go to Spreadsheet and click …

• The Supreme Court has another chance to fix the software patent problem | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from VentureBeat: I’ve been railing about the evils of software patents – how they stifle and create a massive tax on innovation – since I wrote my first post about it in 2006 titled Abolish Software Patents. Seven years ago this was …

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Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• Solspaces project to test year-round solar heating system | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Researchers at the University of Stuttgart are preparing to test a solar heating system capable of long term storage as part of “Solspaces,” a three-year project that kicked off in Mar…

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Weekly blog posts (weekly)

• The Death of the Cyberflâneur | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Today’s Internet is a place for getting things done, pushing aside the cyberflâneur — the heir to the flâneur culture of 19th-century France. plerudulier‘s insight: “The art that the…

• How To Build a High-Performing Digital Team | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from HBR Blog Network – Harvard Business Review: Digital skills are in high demand and short supply. But first things first — how do you define a digital team when nearly everything is digital? Digital teams are responsible for devel…

• Japan’s crack plan to solve the world’s energy problems: Turn the moon into a giant solar panel | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from National Post | News: A Japanese construction company is proposing to solve the energy problems facing Japan, and ultimately the entire planet, by turning the Moon…

• Games Are a Whole New Form of Storytelling | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT The player is now not a witness, he is not being guided through a story. He is now a part of it. It’s not a case of watching a character. The player is the character, the character is …

• How George Washington University Uses Video Recording to Train Art Therapists | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT At George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., graduate-level art therapy students are interacting with the local community on a regular basis. plerudulier‘s insight: In art t…

• What Starbucks GETS that Architects DON’T | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT In legal terms, an architect is the all seeing, all knowing, building professional. You are liable for anything that goes wrong with a building but if someone just hates the spaces you…

• How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from Alexandre Afonso: In 2000, economist Steven Levitt and sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics about the internal wage structure of a Chicago drug gang. This piece would later serve…

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  See on Scoop.it – Cartes mentales

  Un succès indéniable! “@salutfinlande: Petite synthèse du système éducatif finlandais par une carte mentale : http://t.co/BswuOWHZHE”

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• New Diplomatic Avenue Emerges, in 140-Character Bursts | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT On the sidelines of the General Assembly meeting, ambassadors and heads of state, including those who have tussled with Twitter the company, seized on it to spread their message. pler…

• Windfarms that float on the sea raise hopes of a greener future | Things I grab, motley collection

  See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT A green light for new floating platforms off the Scottish coast should help lower the cost of a low-carbon economy A floating windfarm, which ministers hope could hold the key to cutti…

• The Battle For The Connected Home Is Heating Up | Things I grab, motley collection

  Reblogged from TechCrunch: Editor’s note: Matt Turck is a managing director of FirstMark Capital. Follow him on Twitter at @mattturck. Almost 15 years ago, a friend of mine at McKinsey spent a few nights writing a document called “The Battle f…

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