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21st-Century Collision Course

Catastrophic battles have already begun and loom large on the horizon between traditional hierarchal powers and the growing trend of lateral power structures, according to the University of Sydney’s Mark Pesce.

Pesce spoke at the Personal Democracy Forum on the reasons hierarchal structures will lose out to hyperintelligent ad-hocracies unless they learn to reinvent themselves....

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HTML 5: Less, Yet So Much More

With Google I/O in full swing yesterday, one thing is apparent: we are on the cusp of a new HTML standard. It's slated to be a really versatile and shiny standard. It's a standard that promises to work for, and not against developers. It's been a long time coming, but for the first time in the standard's history,...

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A Scientific-ish Study of Bacon in Social Media

Cross post from the media measurement team at the ImpactWatch Blog

Hypothesis:

IF bacon is great THEN it will rule social media.

Experiment:

Bacon in the Social Media News

1. Bacon explosion – a heart-warming (burning?) recipe involving 2 pounds of bacon wrapped around 2 pounds of sausage....

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Vitamin Water Uses TV Ads to Drive Traffic to Facebook Fan Page

Like any good American, I spent a good bit of time today watching the NCAA college basketball tournament.  I’m pretty good at ignoring commercials, but a new Vitamin Water ad I half watched tonight caught my attention.  I really don’t remember the television commercial itself at all, although from some research I believe it is this Steve Nash spot that I saw. ...

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Embracing an Iterative Approach to Site Development

The Bivings Group has been creating web programs for clients for over thirteen years.  I’ve been around and involved for a lot of those years.  Pretty much everything – from the tools you use to the way you write code to the Internet knowledge of our clients – has changed for the better since 1996....

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