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14 posts
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How to clean your apps permissions
A quick reminder to audit which third-party apps have access to your Gmail and LinkedIn accounts. It takes two minutes and is well worth the effort — you may find permissions you have no recollection of granting.
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Save our inboxes
Chris Anderson's Email Charter offers ten simple rules for reducing the burden email places on everyone — including the principle that short and slow is not rude. Worth adopting and sharing.
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Uncloud local wireless networking
UnCloud is an intriguing step toward local wireless networking and Internet independence — a project worth exploring alongside Douglas Rushkoff's thinking on why reclaiming our digital infrastructure matters.
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Challenges of creating for the web
A pointed comic from The Oatmeal on the realities of making things for the web — the gap between what creators intend and how the work is actually received. Painfully recognisable.
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Solar sinter
Markus Kayser's Solar Sinter project uses sunlight, sand and 3D printing to produce glass objects in the desert — an astonishing demonstration of what becomes possible when you combine natural energy with open technologies.
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Inspiring blogger - Matt Gemmell
Matt Gemmell is such a good writer, his post Dear TextMate is a beauty and must reflect the thoughts of many former Textmate fans.
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Dark Sky - how it works
A fascinating technical account of how the Dark Sky weather app was built — combining open-source tools, public radar data and clever numerical analysis to deliver hyperlocal rainfall predictions on an iPhone.
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The future of aviation
A 1910 exhibition at the French National Library imagined the world of the year 2000 — including long-distance airship travel that now looks less like fantasy and more like a plausible low-carbon future for aviation.
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A Vision of the Future
A pointer to Stephen Wolfram's SXSW talk — a wide-ranging glimpse of the computational capabilities his firm is rolling out, and the enormous potential they hold for new kinds of software.
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Facebook and ads
This is right on the money - so to speak. If you pay for a product, you're a customer. If you don't, you're the product.
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Models for decision making
A look at decision-making techniques and the value of stepping back to see the full picture. Includes a fine mind map example from Learning Fundamentals on personal actions for reducing climate change impacts.
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Daily Rituals
Great infographic showing the daily rituals of interesting historical figures. Smoking, coffee and beer appear frequently.
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Solvay Conference 1911
Mark Bernstein illustrates his argument by describing the photo of attendees at the first Solvay conference in 1911, which brought to my attention that so many these famous scientists were contemporaries.
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Why have Enterprise Architecture
A short video produced by Mastering Archimate and T36 that makes the case for why Enterprise Architecture matters — a useful resource for explaining the discipline to stakeholders.
