January 2011
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Open Objects: Museums and iterative agility: do... →
Re-visiting the results of the survey I ran about issues facing museum technologists has inspired me to gather together some great pieces I’ve read on museum projects moving away from detailed up-front briefs and specifications toward iterative and/or agile development….
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What are you personally going to do?
The recent floods in Australia are a clear indication of the failure by governments in Australia to address the issue of climate change. With the clear and demonstrated failure of the Copenhagen and Cancun Conferences to come up with fair and binding international agreements, everywhere Governments have backed away from the needs that address the future of the planet, and so we are left with...
Jan 18th
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The inventables →
A prototypers wonderland
Jan 17th
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Rethinking the Mobile Web by Yiibu
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"What will global warming look like? Scientists... →
’ “What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia”… …while we are talking about the immense loss and what we can do to help, there is another conversation that we should be having: the conversation about climate change… …we need to start talking about what climate change actually looks like - and we don’t need to look much further...
Jan 13th
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PROGRESS →
PROGRESS is designed to show the effects of the steps President Obama and Democrats have taken to rebuild the US economy.
Jan 13th
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Consider the QLD floods...
If you don’t fancy yourself as a treehugger, think about natural disaster and climate change in monetary terms… how about INSURANCE… ‘…Let’s think for a moment about a technology that gets little attention but provides an essential foundation for our prosperity…the actuarial table…actuaries…underwrite insurance at a reasonable cost - and...
Jan 11th
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“If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that’s something. But the...”
– Noam Chomsky
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Sustainism - It's Got a Name, Now Do It -... →
I like the term Sustainism – maybe we do need a new “ism” to rally behind (or perhaps Ferris was right and no good can come from any ism?!) .. though this article rightly points out the need for far more than symbols and branding.
Jan 10th
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Fascinating talk on the lessons learnt about human psychology from video games and how we might apply them to other areas of society. Relevant for our water worx game of course but also our work on behaviour change for social, climate and organisational outcomes.  (via Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain | Video on TED.com)
Jan 9th
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The TAle of Two IPOs - or why Facebook will... →
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So You Wanna Build a Library, Eh? - Boxes and... →
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Nike Better World →
Nike want to make the world better through sport, including sharing the technology they use for their environmentally preferred rubber through a Creative Commons license. Pretty cool stuff. Check out what else their doing: http://nikebetterworld.com
Jan 3rd
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LukeW | Killing Sign Up Forms →
Some cool ideas around improving sign up rates by gradual engagement strategies - like it.
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