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12 Tools for Transition: No.10. How to Run an Open Space Event. 21 Mar 2008 12 Tools for Transition: No.10. How to Run an Open Space Event If you are a control freak, you will hate organising an Open Space event! It involves a lot of trust that the process will work but at the same time I have never seen or heard of one not working.

The Four Rules state: Whoever come are the right people.Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.Whenever it starts is the right time.When it’s over, it’s over. and The Law of Two Feet states that: “If, during the course of the gathering, any person finds themselves in a situation where they are neither learning nor contributing, they must use their feet and go to some more productive place.” Key to a successful Open Space event is the question – which is usually in the title of the event – which sets the ground for what is to be under discussion that day. How Will Totnes Feed Itself Beyond the Age of Cheap Oil?

You may choose to invite specific people, or just leave it open to whoever turns up. PopTip Launches Zipline, An Analytics Tool For Finding Common Phrases In Twitter Conversations. Social polling company PopTip has a new product for marketers, journalists, and others who want to know what people are really saying on Twitter about a given topic. Analytics seems like a logical extension of PopTip’s existing services — it’s all about helping customers understand how people feel and what they’re talking about. In the case of Zipline (that’s the new product), there are already a number of services for tracking brand mentions, sentiment, or related topics, but this product focuses on phrases. To cite an example from PopTip’s blog post, a company could identify “Grand Theft Auto V” as an important topic (in the parlance of Zipline, a “classifier”), and Zipline would show that people who are talking about GTA V are using phrases like “download gta v” and “the day girlfriends lose their friends”.

At the same time, the phrases can also be used to access other features. You Don’t Need To Learn To Code + Other Truths About the Future of Careers. There’s a reason most “conventional” career advice sucks: the world is changing at a rapid clip. When well-meaning mentors give advice based on their experiences decades ago, it’s kind of like teaching someone how to drive using a horse and buggy. In his latest book, Average Is Over, economist Tyler Cowen argues that we need to reshape the way we think about jobs, and in turn, our careers, in the wake of this rapid technological change. As most industrialized nations outsource and automate jobs, labor becomes more abundant and employment harder to come by. In a world of Amazon drones, who needs postal workers? When the Google self-driving car hits the mass market, will we no longer need taxi drivers? Yet the challenge for creators is more subtle: rather than being replaced by robots, we have to worry about competition on a global scale.

So how can we best prepare ourselves for this new career dynamic, where we must stave off outsourcing at every turn? 1. 2. 3. 4. How about you? The NSA and the Corrosion of Silicon Valley - Michael Dearing - Voices. How did we end up with a centralized Internet for the NSA to mine?

I’m sure it was a Wired editor, and not the author Steven Levy, who assigned the title “How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet” to yesterday’s fine article about the pressures on large social networking sites. Whoever chose the title, it’s justifiably grandiose because to many people, yes, companies such as Facebook and Google constitute what they know as the Internet. (The article also discusses threats to divide the Internet infrastructure into national segments, which I’ll touch on later.) So my question today is: How did we get such industry concentration? Why is a network famously based on distributed processing, routing, and peer connections characterized now by a few choke points that the NSA can skim at its leisure?

Having lived through the Boston Marathon bombing, I understand what the NSA claims to be fighting, and I am willing to seek some compromise between their needs for spooking and the protections of the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution. Public routers.