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• When Those Who Know Won’t Share – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  There is no “I” in team, we are told. It’s important for workers to share information and collaborate. So why would employees deliberately hide knowledge from their colleagues? And yet they do, all the time.

  Knowledge-hiding in the workplace is c…

• Smart people listen to Radiohead and dumb people listen to Beyoncé, according to study | Things I grab, motley collection

  plerudulier:

  Counting crows (not that often Radiohead, sorry if that makes me dumber), The Shins, …

  Originally posted on Consequence of Sound:

  How does a person’s intelligence relate to the type of music they listen to? For the last several yea…

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• What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020 | Things I grab, motley collection

  Harvard Business Review:

  For Drucker, the newest new world was marked, above all, by one dominant factor: “the shift to a knowledge society.”

  Originally posted on HBR Blog Network – Harvard Business Review:

  When PwC released its annual survey o…

• Xiaomi, Not Apple, Is Changing the Smartphone Industry | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on HBR Blog Network – Harvard Business Review:

  Determining which customer to target first is one of the most critical decisions in the entrepreneurial process.  Customers that are relatively less risky and more predictable can m…

• These Traffic Lights Predict Your Behavior To Give You A Speedier Commute – [fastcoexist.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  There should be a German word for that feeling when you desperately need to be somewhere on time, and the traffic lights seem like they’re conspiring against you. When the greens feel especially short, the reds especially long, and both appear as …

• Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  The thermometer showed a 103.5-degree fever, and her 10-year-old’s asthma was flaring up. Mary Bolender, who lives in Las Vegas, needed to get her daughter to an emergency room, but her 2005 Chrysler van would not start.

  The cause was not a mecha…

• It was great having you, magazines. Let’s just say goodbye now | Things I grab, motley collection

  plerudulier:

  “Magazine still do come in handy tho when your battery of your tech is low. And sometimes the resolution on paper magazines is just better on the eyes as is the reading. Giving oneself a rest from tech is rather good.”

  Originally po…

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• Evaluer l'innovation : au-delà du mythe des brevets

  Évaluer l’innovation : au-delà du mythe des brevets http://t.co/kB0W0GrnV1

• Ze log – Michel Serres : bienvenue à l’homme nouveau

  Michel Serres : bienvenue à l’homme nouveau http://t.co/l0ZKukD1

• Sweden has been letting its citizens run its twitt

  Sweden has been letting its citizens run its twitter feed. It was only a matter of time before a troll got ahold of it http://t.co/YgnQUcB8

• Anonymous Makes Everyone Reporters with a DIY Press Pass | The Snitch | San Francisco | San Francisco News and Events | SF Weekly

  Remember HTTP makes us all journalists / N’oublie pas HTTP fait de nous tous des journalistes http://t.co/pZVJdKZt #manifencours #opbart

  tags: manifencours opbart

• tops 10 Best Cities for Shopping list! via

  #HongKong tops @TheTobeReport’s 10 Best Cities for Shopping list! http://t.co/RQq1P8s1 via @CNBC

  tags: HongKong

• Le curé rouge qui a bouleversé

  Le curé rouge qui a bouleversé la vie des enfants de bourgeois http://t.co/nlgFakv0 (via @summify)

• Ze log – Starting my BYOD … with a tablet | Débuter mon BYOD* … avec 1 tablette

  Starting my BYOD … with a tablet | Débuter mon BYOD* … avec 1 tablette http://t.co/uvnxhRZX

• The Education Foundation Launches Learning Lab in London – Getting Smart by Getting Smart Staff – edchat, edreform, EdTech | Getting Smart

  The Education Foundation Launches Learning Lab in London http://t.co/UKoZrPLb

• A better Google+ notification experience in email

  A better Google+ notification experience in email http://t.co/gaoecXuF (via @summify)

• Why History Should Replace Economics in the 21st Century – [io9.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations, by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic princip…

• We Can Be Heroes – [thenewinquiry.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  By associating itself with the selfish pleasures of visibility, the wearable camera GoPro has staved off criticism for how it enhances surveillance

  In On Photography, Susan Sontag laments the disconnected voyeurism photography produces. “Photogra…

• 1918-1920: The Flu Epidemic – [http://mashable.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Perhaps most significant, the influenza outbreak coincided with the final year of what was then called “The Great War” WWI. The war had already exacted a massive psychological toll on the globe, but frequent international combat probably also had …

• The Grid Uses Artificial Intelligence To Design Your Websites For You | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TechCrunch:

  Designing a good-looking website has never been easy and while many services promise to let you build a site without ever having to touch any code, you quickly reach their limits if you want to have a more advance…

• No One Tweets Like the Japanese, and That Was a Huge Problem for Twitter | [wired.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Twitter engineer Mazdak Hashemi says the Japanese tweet like no one else on earth.

  When the New Year arrives or even as they watch certain moments in shows and movies broadcast on national television, tens of thousands of Japanese will tweet at p…

• The 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology goes to the discoverers of grid and place cells | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on neuroecology:

  I was joking last night that when they announced the Nobel Prize, I wouldn’t have any clue who the winner was because I basically don’t know biology from before 10 years ago. Then I wake up and the winners are s…

• ‘Gamification’ Is Dead, Long Live Games For Learning | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TechCrunch:

  Editor’s note: Michael John (“MJ”) is responsible for all creative product development at GlassLab. An industry veteran who has designed commercial video games for close to twenty years, his design credits include…

• An Open Office Experiment That Actually Worked | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on HBR Blog Network – Harvard Business Review:

  Nowadays many people regard open-plan offices with skepticism — remnants of a once-cool work space fad that led to more distraction than innovation. As this article explains, there …

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• Ubiquitous, light, easy to operate, it’s, it’s … | Omniprésent, léger, facile à utiliser, c’est, c’est … | plerudulier | Things I grab, motley collection

  I can’t believe that over the years I have maintained this blog I haven’t written once about TiddlyWiki. In a nutshell it’s a non linear personal web notebook… which doesn’t mean much to many I suppose. There’s no point copying and pasting here de…

• Forty Portraits in Forty Years – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Nicholas Nixon was visiting his wife’s family when, “on a whim,” he said, he asked her and her three sisters if he could take their picture. It was summer 1975, and a black-and-white photograph of four young women — elbows casually attenuated, in …

• How to see into the future – [FT.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Irving Fisher was once the most famous economist in the world. Some would say he was the greatest economist who ever lived. “Anywhere from a decade to two generations ahead of his time,” opined the first Nobel laureate economist Ragnar Frisch, in …

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• Radiohead singer Thom Yorke sells his new solo album via BitTorrent | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Gigaom:

  Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has a new album, and it’s available exclusively via BitTorrent. Yorke is the first artist using BitTorrent’s Bundles program to sell downloads, making it a test case for what could be ano…

• The Computer-Controlled Driving Experience Is About More Than Just Self-Driving Cars – [fastcoexist.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  If you were to design a transport system to use as much energy as possible, with the greatest possible impact on the environment, you’d design a system something like the one we have now. You’d give everyone their own car, subsidize gasoline to th…

• Big Data Is Changing the Way We Get Well – [Mashable.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Big data is affecting on-the-floor work among caregivers in numerous ways. One of them is in the decision-making process, bedside.

  “With the advent of [electronic medical records],” said Mickey Lynch, director of commercial strategy and innovatio…

• Huxley Was Right | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Weekends in Paradelle:

  The English author Aldous Huxley was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, a scientist who was known as “Darwin’s bulldog” for his defense of the theory of evolution.

  Huxley published four novels in the…

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• 5 Countries That Do It Better: How Sexual Prudery Makes America a Less Healthy and Happy Place | [alternet.org] | Things I grab, motley collection

  To extreme social conservatives of the far right, the word “prude” is not an insult — it’s a badge of honor. “Prudes,” they would argue, should be upheld as exemplary role models because a sexually repressive society is also a society with fewer u…

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• Low Latency 108: Conflict of interest – [CNET.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Low Latency 108: Conflict of interest – CNET.

  Filed under: Comic, diet, Digital ecosystem, fitness, Technology, Wearable Tagged: Apple, McDonald, Payment, Watch

• A Simple Equation: More Education = More Income – NYTimes.com | Things I grab, motley collection

  Imagine if the United States government taxed the nation’s one-percenters so that their post-tax share of the nation’s income remained at 10 percent, roughly where it was in 1979. If the excess money were distributed equally among the rest of the …

• What Can We Learn From The Wealth of Virtual Nations? – [CityLab.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  My friend is exasperated with her younger sister, who’s been crashing on her couch. Recently she asked her sibling to get up early to let the electrician in, but the sister slept through the appointed hour. She’d been up until dawn, playing World …

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• I no longer have patience | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Ioadicaeu’s Blog:

  “I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I …

• 25 Horrifying Images of the “Free” Market at Work – [alternet.org] | Things I grab, motley collection

  When economists talk about how a market “regulates itself,” what they mean is that markets reach an equilibrium between supply and demand.

  This says nothing about whether or not this equilibrium will be a good thing for society. It simply states …

• Pub : Ikea se moque d’Apple, et c’est très drôle ! | Site mobile Le Point

  Quand Ikea se paye #Apple dans une #pub : http://t.co/M5N0hjKU9f Par @guerricp

  tags: Apple pub

• Robert Reich: Just Imagine If People Were Paid What Their Work Is Really Worth to Society – [alternet.org] | Things I grab, motley collection

  What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society. Does anyone seriously believe hedge-fund mogul Steven A. Cohen is worth the  $2.3 billion he raked in last year, despite being slapped with a $1.8 billion f…

• Makerspaces: A Look at the #MakerMovement #NationOfMakers – [custommade.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Since the first wheels of mass production started turning during the Industrial Revolution, fine craftsmen and DIYers have found it more difficult to sustain their crafts. Until recently, those handmade-focused entrepreneurs who wanted or needed a…

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• With $30 Million More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  One ambitious start-up wants to reroute the plumbing of the consumer Internet. Now it has the money to try to make it happen.

  The start-up, called IFTTT pronounced like “gift” without the “g”, announced on Thursday it had raised $30 million in fu…

• Amazon Opens Up Its Enterprise Cloud Storage Service Zocalo To All | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TechCrunch:

  Amazon today announced that it’s making Zocalo, its secure document storage and sharing service designed for enterprise use, generally available. The news comes, not coincidentally, on a day when cloud storage com…

• Why e-learning should be in perpetual beta – [clive-shepherd.blogspot.com.es/] | Things I grab, motley collection

  I once asked the CEO of a major e-learning company how much of their work was maintenance of existing content, thinking that this would be a substantial revenue earner. I was surprised to find that hardly anyone maintains their content. They just …

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• What it feels like to be the last generation to remember life before the internet | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Quartz:

  Technology has a lot to answer for: killing old businesses, destroying the middle class, Buzzfeed. Technology in the form of the internet is especially villainous, having been accused of everything from making us dumb…

• Twitter vs. Facebook as a news source: Ferguson shows the downsides of an algorithmic filter | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on Gigaom:

  While Twitter has been alive with breaking news about the events in Ferguson, Mo. after the shooting of an unarmed black man — video clips posted by participants, live-tweeting the arrest of journalists, and so on — m…

• Algorithms Are Replacing Unions As The Champions of Workers | Things I grab, motley collection

  Originally posted on TechCrunch:

  [tc_dropcap]Quality of life is perhaps the single largest factor underpinning human happiness, and that quality is largely determined by one’s job. It should be no wonder then that so many activists and politician…

• In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty – [NYTimes.com] | Things I grab, motley collection

  Just after 4 a.m. on a recent Friday, while most of the neighbors in her leafy Boston suburb were still asleep, Jennifer Guidry was in the driveway of her rental apartment, her blond hair pulled back in a tidy French braid, vacuuming the inside of…

• The new death etiquette: short, shared, shallow – [independent.co.uk] | Things I grab, motley collection

  It’s a mark of the long reach of technology’s grappling hook that the death of the actor and comedian Robin Williams – to be followed only a few hours later by the passing of Lauren Bacall – should inspire a debate not only about their merits as e…

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