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            Matter/Anti-Matter
               
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                <title>Mandatory employee blogs: one way to boost knowledge</title>
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I have a piece of advice for those who bemoan the lack of knowledge-sharing in their organizations: Make tacit knowledge explicit. Externalize expertise and experiences across all functions, from the office manager to the executive team.</p><p> 

</p><p>How? Make it mandatory for every employee to keep an internal blog and post ...</p>]]>
                        
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                    Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:16:00 GMT
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                    Tim Leberecht
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                <title>Thoughts on Logitech Harmony One universal remote</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<div class="cnet-image-div float-none" style="width: 489px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080701/logitech_harmony.jpg" alt="Harmony One remote control" width="489" height="434" /><p class="image-caption">Harmony One Remote Control</p><span class="image-credit">(Credit: Logitech, Inc.)</span></div>

</p><p>I recently purchased a universal remote control to replace the three other remotes that littered our living room. Both the remotes for the Comcast cable box and Marantz AV receiver were theoretically universal, but none really functioned as such as they were too </p>...]]>
                        
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                    Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:39:00 GMT
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                    Adam Richardson
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                <title>Exit-architecture: design between war and peace</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<div class="cnet-image-div" style="width: 540px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080629/shining3_540x404.jpg" alt="" width="540" height="404" /><span class="image-credit">(Credit: <a href="http://www.i109.photobucket.com/.../lotte_08/shining3.jpg" >Photobucket</a>)</span></div>

</p><p>Stephan Trüby is a theoretician, curator, and architect, and his new book "<a href="http://www.amazon.de/Exit-Architecture-Transmission-Rhetorics-Cultural-Evolution/dp/3211779698/ref=sr_1_2/028-8770057-0807765?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214715886&sr=1-2">Exit-Architecture -- Design between War and Peace</a>" is essentially a pamphlet that condenses his preceding writing. He rehashes the key theses of his previous publication, the anthology "<a href="http://iplot.typepad.com/iplot/2006/11/gadgetecture_de.html">5 Codes -- Architecture, Paranoia and Risk in Times of Terror</a>," </p>...]]>
                        
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                    Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:36:00 GMT
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                    Tim Leberecht
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                <title>Are you a GNE?</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<div class="cnet-image-div float-left" style="width: 270px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080628/GNE_270x270.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="270" /><span class="image-credit">(Credit: <a href="http://dtp.epsb.net/summerinstitute/si/david.jpg" >Dtp</a>)</span></div>

In a recent article, <em>Wallpaper</em> magazine describes Global Nomadic Expatriates, or GNEs, as a new breed of "career expats" who move from country to country for short-term professional gigs, "with no particular loyalty to a home nation."</p><p>

</p><p>The magazine cites a <a href="http://www.mercer.com/">Mercer</a> study covering 232 multi-national corporations, stating </p>...]]>
                        
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                    Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:38:00 GMT
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                    Tim Leberecht
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                <title>Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase</title>
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                            <![CDATA[</p><p><a class="external-link" href="newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19826602.000-interview-the-cellphone-anthropologist.html">New Scientist magazine has a good interview</a> with roving Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase. He travels around the world observing and photographing how people live their lives, and how mobile phones fit into that. It's kind of amazing that Nokia allows him to blog about it as much as he </p>...]]>
                        
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                    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:29:00 GMT
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                    Adam Richardson
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                <title>The next big thing: table tennis triples</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<div class="cnet-image-div" style="width: 500px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080625/triple.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /><span class="image-credit">(Credit: <a href="http://nextbigthingaward.com/2008_finalists/table_tennis_triples.html" >Next Big Thing Awards</a>)</span></div>

</p><p>The <a href="http://www.pitechtriples.com.au/">Table Tennis Triples and Modular Table Tennis System (MTTS)</a> was a finalist in the Australian <a href="http://nextbigthingaward.com/2008_finalists/table_tennis_triples.html">Next Big Thing Awards</a>.</p><p>

</p><p>I love how the invention's "unique benefits" are listed on the award site:</p><p>

</p><p>"- More people play on one table: social benefits, reduced waiting </p>...]]>
                        
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                    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:09:00 GMT
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                    Tim Leberecht
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                <title>Craig Venter&#039;s CO2-Eating Organisms</title>
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                            <![CDATA[</p><p>Craig Venter, who led the charge to decypher human DNA, is now on the green hunt. <a class="external-link" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/craig-venter-interview.php">According to Treehugger</a> he's looking for a double-wammy: take CO2 in the atmosphere and convert it into fuel (rather than fuel creating CO2 as is mostly the case today).</p><p>

<blockquote>As we've described </blockquote></p>...]]>
                        
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                    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:02:17 GMT
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                    Adam Richardson
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                <title>Big ideas, smaller audiences, and too many (or the wrong) metrics</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<strong>Insights from the Conversational Marketing Summit</strong><br />

</p><p>John Battelle's Conversational Marketing Summit, which <a class="external-link" href="http://iplot.typepad.com/iplot/2007/09/what-the-chief-.html">debuted last fall with much acclaim in a more intimate setting in San Francisco</a>, faced a challenging task with its <a class="external-link" href="http://federatedmedia.net/events/cmsummit-speakers">second edition last week in New York</a>. 
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For starters, the <a class="external-link" href="http://federatedmedia.net/events/cmsummit-speakers">speaker lineup</a> was impressive, but two of </p>...]]>
                        
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                    Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:13:00 GMT
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                    Tim Leberecht
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                <title>What&#039;s in a (concocted) name?</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<div class="cnet-image-div" style="width: 540px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080615/montage_540x233.jpg" alt="" width="540" height="233" /><span class="image-credit">(Credit: <a href="http://www.thornbergandforester.com" >Thornberg & Forester</a>)</span></div>

</p><p>I work for <a href="http://www.frogdesign.com">frog design</a>, and frequently at conferences and parties, people ask me about the name: What does it mean? Where does it come from? While some suspect it symbolizes the agility of that animal species, the truth is that our German founder, Hartmut Esslinger, coined </p>...]]>
                        
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                    Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:49:00 GMT
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                    Tim Leberecht
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                <title>CNN prints headline T-shirts</title>
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                            <![CDATA[<div class="cnet-image-div" style="width: 350px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080607/cnn_tshirts.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="291" /><span class="image-credit">(Credit: <a href="http://www.mooneythinks.com/images/2008/04/21/cnn_tshirts.jpg" >Mooneythinks</a>)</span></div>

</p><p>CNN is now printing one-off American Apparel <a href="http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/allshirts/">headline T-shirts</a>. The new feature (in beta) allows you to order them from the CNN web site -- with the headline, time-stamp, and CNN logo on it.</p><p> 

</p><p>Pretty cool. CNN gets it. Their T-shirt campaign exhibits all the key ingredients of </p>...]]>
                        
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                    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:37:00 GMT
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                    Tim Leberecht
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