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…is that people who update their aggregator subscriptions only once every three or four days (which is likely) get incoherent posts from me (which is less than desirable from my perspective). Apparently I can make this problem better or worse by changing settings my end. Thanks to Charlie Wood for setting me right on this. [...]

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When I alerted people to my plans for a Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation approach to underpin the Four Pillars, I got a ping back from John Hagel reminding me about the work that he had done with JSB in this respect, following on from The Only Sustainable Edge. I was privileged to [...]

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And I feel
like I’ve been here before
Feel
like I’ve been here before
And you know it makes me wonder
What’s going on
David Crosby, Deja Vu: Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Dallas Taylor and Greg Reeves
[BTW I have not seen a “neutrality disputed” tag on a topic like this before in Wikipedia. Looks like I will have to do [...]

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Michael Massing makes an interesting point in the FT today, you can find an excerpt of the article here.
My takeaway from his comments is as follows:

1. US corporates spend an awful lot of money lobbying government on a variety of issues
2. The sectors that do the lobbying (eg automobiles, utilities, entertainment) spend this awful lot [...]

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Ugly sells? Take a look at this post from Commission Networks (I couldn’t be bothered trying to find out who the person was, the site was too ugly for me and I couldn’t find an “about”). But it made me think.
I wonder if the Henry Ford “faster horses” statements can be made to apply to [...]

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In no particular order, but maybe it lets you get inside my head just that little bit more.

Today I Killed A Man I Didn’t Know…. White Plains
(I’m) On the Road to Freedom…. Alvin Lee and Mylon Lefevre
Thoughts about Roxanne….John Mayall
Angry Eyes….Loggins and Messina
Maybe…. Dave Mason
Twas a Sunny Day….Paul Simon
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys….Traffic
May You [...]

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If you haven’t done so already, you must read The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov.
I’d like to pay Mr Asimov some form of homage and see whether I can construct the Four Pillar Foundations using the same book headings: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation. This is neither meant to be pompous (in no [...]

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I just came across this by Jon Udell. Well worth a read.
Unless we get the words and images right, we are going to face many uphill struggles, maybe even upmountain ones. [See earlier post on blogs and anchors, frames and metaphors. ]

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It’s worth taking a look at this from Newsweek. More shape-of-things-that-are-here. And the buzzphrase machine is in overdrive.

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While wandering around the 37signals space, I found this blog, Loudthinking by David Heinemeier Hansson, and came across this post.
So let me get this right. They think they make 10 times as much selling their books direct electronic in comparison with traditional ways. Go Grateful Dead. Go Arctic Monkeys.
Thin market, complex product, proves nothing, I [...]

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