May 2009
33 posts
WatchAs a consumer, employee, citizen, activist, parent, or whatever, sometimes you can’t do things alone - you need the power of many. The Point offers a new approach to leveraging the influence of groups and making things happen.
“Our current education system was designed in the industrial revolution to...”
– The School of Everything
“There is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your...”
– Ten Things I Have Learned (via Boing Boing)
“The Conference Board of Canada bills itself as “the foremost, independent,...”
– Michael Geist, The Conference Board of Canada’s Deceptive, Plagiarized Digital Economy Report
Copyright and wrongs →
Music fans are sued; Google is blocked from digitising books; people are prohibited from incorporating images, sounds or even cultural references to create new things. Copyright, first enacted 300 years ago, often holds back creativity and progress. It has adapted poorly to new technologies. The strength and duration of protection has expanded enormously. Does the system favour content owners...
“…why is it that we seem to have more comfort when the capacity for total...”
– Joshua-Michéle Ross in Captivity of the Commons
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,...”
– Alvin Toffler in Rethinking the Future
WatchJanine Saunders’ “Life Inc: The Movie” is a 9 minute video which illustrates some of the concepts within Douglas Rushkoff’s upcoming book.
“When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.”
– Henry David Thoreau
What Does Your Credit-Card Company Know About You?... →
The exploration into cardholders’ minds hit a breakthrough in 2002, when J. P. Martin, a math-loving executive at Canadian Tire, decided to analyze almost every piece of information his company had collected from credit-card transactions the previous year. Canadian Tire’s stores sold electronics, sporting equipment, kitchen supplies and automotive goods and issued a credit card that...
“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin.” The greatest...”
– C. S. Lewis
“The status-quo isn’t acceptable, nor is it even possible. There is an...”
– Mike Soron in “Back to ecological economics”
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that...”
– Neil Postman in “Amusing Ourselves To Death”
“Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your...”
– Eric Raymond’s The Catehdral and the Bazaar
Don’t Buy Green →
unconsumption:
Cliff Kuang writes a great piece on GOOD’s blog site about why the idea of encouraging people to buy “green” products is counterinuitive…an excellent illustration of unconsumption’s purpose/meaning
The World According to Monsanto - Full Documentary →
documentary:
An in-depth documentary that looks at the domination of the agricultural industry from one of the world’s most insidious and powerful companies.
via ostermayer
“Park Slope, Brooklyn, is just a microcosm of the slippery slope
upon which so...”
– Life Inc: Introduction
“What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you....”
– Synecdoche, New York [ via mandyjanerose ] (via culturite)
