October 2010
20 posts
4 tags
Finance 2.0 Manifesto
Macro and microcurrencies. A currency tied to national interests determined by a political elite? That’s so 20th century 16th century. A better financial system needs better currencies. Finance 2,0 will be built on microcurrencies and macrocurrencies: currencies which operate hyperlocally and transnationally. Why? Because people shouldn’t have to bear collective responsibility for...
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Terrorism as a brand
“If you’re a terrorist (or a national hero, depending on who’s looking at you), there are relatively few of you and relatively a lot of the big guys you’re up against. Terrorism is about branding because a brand is most of what you have as a terrorist. Terrorists have virtually no resources. I don’t even like using the word terrorism. It’s not an accurate descriptor of what’s going...
“Think about it: when you have embeddable content like the Monocle reader, you’re...”
– Leaving The Book Behind
“The first issue is that knowledge is immediately ‘consumable’ and that code is...”
– michel bauwens
“Since then Ito has made progress. his latest experience is that a fully...”
– alberto cottica, Schumpeter’s curse
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“C’è così tanta gente che scrive, ormai, che non sono mica sicuro che ce ne sia...”
– Sba
“Twitter has destroyed my writing, but not as much as interacting with people...”
– Sommer Browning, on how Twitter has affected her writing. (via whokilled) (via somethingchanged) (via electronicalrattlebag)
Utterly nuts. But I like it.
(via iainbroome)
“Twitter has destroyed my writing, but not as much as interacting with people...”
– Sommer Browning, on how Twitter has affected her writing. (via whokilled) (via somethingchanged) (via electronicalrattlebag)
Utterly nuts. But I like it.
(via iainbroome)
“Twitter has destroyed my writing, but not as much as interacting with people...”
– Sommer Browning, on how Twitter has affected her writing. (via whokilled) (via somethingchanged) (via electronicalrattlebag)
Utterly nuts. But I like it.
(via iainbroome)
“Twitter has destroyed my writing, but not as much as interacting with people...”
– Sommer Browning, on how Twitter has affected her writing. (via whokilled) (via somethingchanged) (via electronicalrattlebag)
Utterly nuts. But I like it.
(via iainbroome)
“It is common for contemporary critics to describe the Internet as an unpredictable mass of data–rhizomatic and lacking central organization. This position states that since new communication technologies are based on the elimination of centralized command and hierarchical control, it follows that the world is witnessing a general disappearance of control as such.
This could not be further...
Cristoforo con lombo
cristoforo colombo, non avrà per caso soppiantato il timbro con freccia da burocrate mitopoietico?!? (ok, ma è sabato mattina ed io sto andando all’inferno: finchè non prendo l’espressino doppio con sedativi, dovete “tenermi”) - L’∀vvocatessa
http://friendfeed.com/mafe/d36fc1d5/mi-e-semblato-di-vedele-un-gatto
September 2010
3 posts
“Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates....”
– Barry Ritholtz in The Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations | The Big Picture (via quotingthecrisis) 