Tag: relationships
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Tunisian Revolutionary Slim Amamou Breaks Down OS3 Culture
This morning I had the great fortune to tune into the latter part of a talk given in Stockholm by Tunisian web activist and revolutionary Slim Amamou, as part of the ambitious Net4Change conference being held there today. The live feed is available here: http://juliagruppen.se/lang/en/nyheter/ Slim Amamou is a programmer who was arrested in 2010…
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David Suzuki Gets It Right @ Occupy Vancouver
I have been talking about the need for leadership from the digital sphere to offer new models and strategies for the Occupy movement, strategies that are not reactive and not based on ‘fixing’ the existing financial system. But we also need leadership from oral elders who can reorient the Occupy movement away from self-defeating aims…
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My Mobility Shifts Talk
MY MOBILITY SHIFTS TALK You are a tree. You are a bird. You are a fish. You are a flower. You are a cloud. You are a baby. Every atom that comprises you, each of you, all of us, has at one time been a tree, a bird, a fish, a flower, a cloud, a…
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I’m Going Gifting @ Occupy Wall Street. Want To Join Me?
Tomorrow I’ll be arriving in New York where I’ll be staying for a few days. I’ll be speaking at (and attending) a cool conference on the future of digital culture and education called Mobility Shifts at The New School. (My talk is Saturday at 2:30 pm, Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building 65 West 11th St.,…
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Public Gifting in Wellington West
Two weeks ago I played a role in a terrific local festival called Taste of Wellington West whose centrepiece is a massive public gifting event. This year 36 different independent local restaurants, bakeries and food shops gave out tens of thousands of free food samples to thousands of visitors throughout the afternoon. It is partly…
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What You Know vs. Who You Know
Last night I was speaking with Moses, a visitor from Kenya, about the difficulty young people have finding jobs in his homeland, even when they have a degree. Because, he said, “It is not what you know that matters but who you know.” Now this is a phrase I have also heard used to describe…
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The Publication Studio – an Interactivist Publisher!
In my last post I talked about the iDC listserv. Today I was contacted by a lurker on that listserv. His name is Matthew Stadler and with his partner Patricia No he runs an extremely interesting organization called The Publication Studio, which describes itself as ‘makers and destroyers of books‘. How cool is that? Better…
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More News From the Frontlines – Digital Dakar
Late last night I met Amadou from Senegal and we started talking. As I always do whenever I meet anyone from somewhere else, I asked him about how people use digital technology in Senegal. Like Array of Words, who recently returned from the Philipines with tales of the Manilla Street Kid Digital Gift Economy, Amadou…
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Digital Bridges to a Sustainable Future – Part 1
In my book, and on this blog, and practically anywhere else where I can find an audience lately, I have been saying that the only way to overcome the eco-cidal tendencies of OS2 (literate) culture is for us to build bridges between sustainable OS1 (oral) culture and hyper-efficient OS3 (digital) culture. The two obvious questions…
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