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  • Food Waste Is Overwhelming

    Food Waste Is Overwhelming. Here Are Five Things People Are Doing About It April Fulton, npr.org The food world is buzzing today about the lat­est news on just how often we waste per­fect­ly good food. And we admit, the sta­tis­tics are pret­ty depress­ing. About 40 per­cent of food in the Unit­ed States today goes uneat­en.…

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  • #The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

      By FAST COMPANY STAFF, fastcompany.com   When it comes to social media success, the long game is more valuable than the short game, according to Hill Holliday’s SVP of digital strategy, Mike Proulx.   “Many brands and indi­vid­u­als mis­tak­en­ly obsess about short­cut tac­tics to gain f…   http://flpbd.it/NcEEF   #The Rules Of Social Media:…

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  • PICNIC Festival To Explore The Shift From Top-Down To Bottom

    PICNIC Festival To Explore The Shift From Top-Down To Bottom-Up fastcocreate.com Amsterdam festival addresses the cultural and business impact of a networked world. We are offi­cial­ly in the age of democ­ra­tized every­thing. Entrenched sys­tems have been buck­ling under the dis­rup­tive pres­sure of par­tic­i­pa­tion and… http://flpbd.it/1C6IQ Related articles The best electro festivals in The Netherlands? (londonoa.com)…

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  • Washington, District Of Cycling

    Washington, District Of Cycling Emily Badger, fastcompany.com Few modes of trans­porta­tion are more basic than the hum­ble bike. Heck, peo­ple have been strad­dling them for some 200 years, far longer than we’ve been mov­ing about town in street­cars, sub­ways, or our own cars. And so this seems a bit… http://flpbd.it/Nytg8 Related articles Top reasons to…

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  • The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing

        The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing fastcocreate.com Rob van Kranenburg outlines a brief history of the next big thing—the internet of things—and argues that U.S. industry and government should be taking a more active role in its evolution. About a decade ago, I would stand…

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  • How to price your services as a freelancer

    How to price your services as a freelancer Amber Leigh Turner, thenextweb.com Hands down, pric­ing your ser­vices as a free­lancer is tough. So tough that no one has real­ly mas­tered it. There isn’t real­ly a secret for­mu­la to pric­ing your ser­vices just right, no mag­i­cal tricks that will help you land awe­some client… http://flpbd.it/zWdEH Related…

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  • Tiny House Arc Prefab Home is Now Available for Order

    Bellomo Architects’ Tiny House Arc Prefab Home is Now Available for Order | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough:…

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  • The Limits of Science—and Scientists

    The Limits of Science—and Scientists | The Crux discovermagazine.com By Ananyo Bhat­tacharya, chief online edi­tor of Nature mag­a­zine. “About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.” The last line of Lud­wig Wittgen­stein’s Trac­ta­tus tends to res­onate with sci­en­tists, scep­tics,… http://flpbd.it/YNwwJ Related articles Final Trac Integrates with AccuTitle Software in Seamless Release Tracking Ordering…

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  • Vinod Khosla: Machines will replace 80 percent of doctors

    Vinod Khosla: Machines will replace 80 percent of doctors By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Science Machines will replace 80 per­cent of doc­tors in a health­care future that will be dri­ven by entre­pre­neurs, not med­ical pro­fes­sion­als, accord­ing to Sun Microsys­tems co-founder Vinod Khosla. Khosla, who wrote an arti­cle enti­t… http://flpbd.it/glxT9 Related articles Top Ten Healthcare Quotes for…

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  • How the internet is changing the fine art marketplace

    How the internet is changing the fine art marketplace By Nathan Hurst, wired.co.uk Technology Five years ago, Jen Bek­man found­ed 20×200 on the belief that every­one should be able to col­lect art, and that the inter­net could help them do so. While nei­ther the old­est nor the biggest place to buy prints online (art.com has……

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  • How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder

      How Obama Stole Romney’s RNC Thunder With Clever Social Media     Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com   Pres­i­dent Barack Obama man­aged to steal an impres­sive amount of Gov. Mitt Rom­ney’s press cov­er­age with a few, cheap social media tricks, includ­ing the most retweet­ed post of the con­ven­tion. In com­par­i­son to the Repub­li­can Nation­al…   http://flpbd.it/x1nqQ…

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  • Do-It-Yourself Civilization in Hackerspace

      Do-It-Yourself Civilization in Hackerspace.gr     By John Baichtal, makezine.com   Sounds way cool!   Coming Sunday, September the 2nd, we are going to take a look at the basics of life through the eye of the hexayurt project‘s creator Vinay Gupta that will visit hackerspace.gr. Hexayurt is an open hardware house built in…

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