"You need to communicate these 5 things within 10 seconds / 1 screen of text:
When the change is coming
How this affects you (or “This does not affect you unless X”)
What action you need to take (or “You do not need to do anything”)
Why this decision was made (can be high-level/’spun’)
You can complain here"

"Kurt Lewin’s model of change: Unfreeze -shake people loose from existing norms. Transition, then refreeze. The new culture needs time to take root.
John Kotter’s model: develop a guiding coalition, and get short-term wins. Don’t decide to boil the ocean upfront. A coalition lets you have multiple change leaders not just one person.
Continuous change model: there are four types of change agents. It starts with influencers or evangelists. They sell ideas to the people who can make change. Then autocrats (people with power) can dictate and move things into practice. Then architects are required to establish the systems needed to put things into place. Finally educators tell the stories and help train people."

"usermod -u <oldname> -l <newname> && mv /home/<oldname> /home/<newname> If any application uses a full path to your home directory in a config file it's broken. the correct way to address a folder in your home dir is $(HOME)/<folder>. If you want to make sure you can use grep to search for such configs. Code: grep "home/<oldname>" -R .*"

"the essential problem facing the online news business is oversupply. The cure isn't pretty. It requires, first, a massive reduction of production capacity - ie, the consolidation or disappearance of lots of news outlets. Second, and dependent on that reduction of production capacity, it requires news organizations to begin to impose controls on their content. By that, I don't mean preventing bloggers from posting fair-use snippets of articles."

"about human sharing, about the relationship between human interest and human morality and human society."

"The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time."

"Why does the computer industry not learn from the past? It's the same reason that they call their customers "users." That the computer industry drips with scorn for everything except themselves. As has been said, there are only two industries on this planet that would use such a sneering term like "user" for its customers: the computer industry and the drug cartels."

With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem

good luck with this text google

Christensen article on technology's potential to disrupt education (i'm reading "disrupting class" now, this may be more efficient)

"start implementing the change you seek before the election, while you have the full attention of the electorate. Ask us to give money, not to buy ads, but to buy health insurance for 50,000 uninsured people in a particular state, so we can see how powerful we are collectively, how we can do good, starting right now. We yearn for this, to feel our muscles flex collectively, and individually to make a difference, not just in your hype, but in real terms."

As ordinary physical items enter the same network, it’s not going to be about virtual or physical activities anymore. Both will be different faces of the same coin. It’s not going to be about context or not. Context will be the primary component of everything. The primary device will no longer be a “mobile”, but more like something that interacts with the network in a highly contextual way. Ideas, people and physical objects will be part of the same network in a very literal sense

The toolkit is addressed to governmental and nongovernmental programmes, projects, organisations and institutions in different sectors dealing with young people.

"[Google has] figured out one of the deepest secrets hidden at the heart of 21st century economics: markets, networks, and communities can organize economic activities radically more efficiently than firms."

eight reasons why... pretty true too.

creates insight into how computing products — from websites to mobile phone software — can be designed to change what people believe and what they do.

"To be successful at social software implementations in business you need firstly to have a solid understanding of how people work and relate to computers, tools, and each other." exactly!

process to mobilize communities and sustain change at the local level.

Such a transformation requires that faculty, students, and institutions take risks. With those risks comes fear, which is often unarticulated. How do you tackle this fear and make real change?

cracked open the carrier-centric structure of the wireless industry and unlocked a host of benefits for consumers, developers, manufacturers — and potentially the carriers themselves

The Edge question for 2007 WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?

"How many of you use Linux?" I ask. Depending on the venue, 20-80% of the audience might raise its hands. "How many of you use Google?" Every hand in the room goes up. And the light begins to dawn.

“Everything looks like a failure in the middle.” Any new enterprise, Kanter explained, encounters roadblocks. Common ground. Inclusiveness and shared responsibility is a particularly American principle first noted and celebrated by Alexis de Tocquevi

Chinese outlook toward quality control as “happy with crappy.” This makes it hard for them to move beyond the local, low-value market.

summaries highlighting strategies for, examples of, and resources related to how and why to engage children and young people as central players in a variety of social change efforts.

how to change the resolution dots-per-inch (the dpi settings) of exported slides by adding a new registry value for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 or for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

"I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world’s deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanit

“The Gates example is so interesting because we Americans like to tell stories that remind us that establishments are close-minded,” says David A. Hollinger, a historian at the University of California, Berkeley.

Climate change may have a graver effect on Africa than any other continent, if the predictions of the most recent report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hold true.

Our aim is to tackle global warming, create social cohesion and beautify our cities through tree planting, community, education and training initiatives in urban areas of greatest need.

address four key life stages that i think are relevant to folks interested in social media: 1) Identity formation and role-seeking (aka youth) 2) Integration and coupling (aka 20somethings) 3) Societal contribution (aka "adults") 4) Reflection and

"It’s a landmark publication because it shows that a company in a hard-nosed industry like oil exploration and production recognises the value of storytelling and are getting benefits from its application."

If the Web and the Net can be viewed as spaces in which we will increasingly live our lives, the economic laws we will live under have to be natural to this new space. These laws turn out to be quite different from what the old economics teaches, or what

a freeware web page update monitoring program - it saves you time and keeps you updated by automatically checking web pages to see if they have changed.

Strait-laced, just deserts, shoo-in, fount of knowledge, free rein, sleight of hand, fazed by, buck naked, vocal cords

Our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change

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