Looking at the news, everyone in London seems to be very excited about the CARGO HUB PLAN: Ottawa and the city will unveil big bucks to help London become an international air cargo gateway Whether or not this plan makes solid business sense in the near term is not my concern [clarification: I should say, [...]
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cargo cults,
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culture,
digital interactive gaming,
digital media,
innovation,
innovation clusters,
new economy,
signalling,
transportation
Selection is a natural; so is categorizing; so is ranking; so is list-making. We owe a lot of great things to the human tendency to rank & classify. We wouldn’t have science (and therefore we wouldn’t have a whole bunch of other things)… Think of biology and chemistry. Unfortunately, it also means discriminating. A list isn’t so much about [...]
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classification,
discipline,
expertise,
mastery,
networks,
process,
selection,
signalling,
social media,
storytelling,
systems,
twitter,
twitter lists,
web
No I haven’t forgot about the little endeavour I launched in May: I started thinking we need someplace to just try stuff. If it works, then great: we can replicate it on our own sites or even develop something more permanent, public, and professional. If it doesn’t work, then that’s ok too: without actually losing [...]
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development,
enterprise modelling,
initiatives,
institutions,
ldnbeta,
learning,
open democracy,
professionalism,
progress,
projects,
rapid prototyping,
relationships,
signalling,
social capital,
social media,
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