sunlightcities: Friday city fun: 40-foot-tall flowers are acting both as lamps and troubadours that croon when people get near in Seattle. Read more at Atlantic Cities This might be my favorite public space thing ever.
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Should residents take municipal projects into their own hands? (poll) | cleveland.com
I think we’re likely to see this more and more. As people develop a much stronger sense of community around specific issues through being able to connect to others who care about them easily through web tools, we’re going to see more and more cases where people feel more only empowered, but reinforced in their …
There’s nothing like a dashboard full of data and graphs and trend lines to make us feel like grown ups. […] You’re supposed to put these dashboards up on a wall, on a huge plasma screen. Because of course numbers are twice as persuasive if you make them twice as big. Stijn DeBrouwere, Cargo cult analytics …
americanphoto: This photograph, part of Shadi Ghadirian’s “Qajar” series, shows a young woman posing with an object banned under the Iranian Revolution. It’s one work out of many which will be shown at an exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts that features the work of 12 women photographers from the Middle East. There’s a …
johngoodwin225: Gartner’s 2013 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Read more Interesting.
The labor force has been radically restructured (by the Boomers, not insignificantly) so that we work, when we can find work at all, longer hours for less money with no job security. How does one save up for a car or mortgage down payment on the kind of salaries most people who weren’t born into …
It’s not Facebook specifically that’s making you depressed — it’s everything. It’s the texts you don’t receive. It’s the exes your friends can’t seem to get rid of. It’s the cyber-bullying on Ask.fm. It’s the indexing of everything you do or say, and the photo of yous, passed out on the floor of a bar …
I commend you all for your engagement activity because that’s how I see it is. We might be doling out some information or data to you but it’s your engagement with challenges, with opportunities that you might see. That really is where we are trying to move the city more towards. Otto Doll, Minneapolis CIO, …
rasdivine: yannickbrouwer: This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis Dope
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? – Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic – Harvard Business Review
Interesting. What do you think?Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic - Harvard Business Review
The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived 