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Pop!Tech - The Impact of Technology on People |
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8:43 pm EDT, Jul 28, 2004 |
Pop!Tech is a one-of-a-kind intellectual and creative conference that explores the social impact of technology and the shape of things to come. The 2004 program will focus on the challenges and opportunities for a New Renaissance in human science, art, industry and understanding. This year's cast of speakers includes Richard Florida, Malcolm Gladwell, Bob Metcalfe, Douglas Rushkoff, Burt Rutan, John Sculley, and more. If you act now, a ticket to this exclusive event can be yours for the low, low price of nineteen ninety five! (If you have to ask where the decimal place is, ...) Pop!Tech - The Impact of Technology on People |
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8:16 pm EDT, Jul 28, 2004 |
Another type of time-challenged employee who can appear at first glance to be a dream come true is the people pleaser. While the vast majority of us want to be helpfuland let's face it, anyone who constantly says no will quickly be shown the doorthis doesn't alter the fact that saying yes all the time is highly dysfunctional. When a person chronically takes on more and more responsibilities out of a fear of confronting authority, he will inevitably commit too much of his time to unproductive projectsfor instance, he will sit on a project that he should have passed on to someone else much earlier. In the workplace, the people pleaser often resorts to time abuse to vent her anger. For example, she agrees to take on a task she doesn't want and then devotes obsessive attention to its minutest details. Although this form of overcompliance can win approval from others, unchecked it can lead to conflicts with the very authority figures she is endeavoring to please. People pleasers are the worst! The Time Abusers |
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Hey, I'm not a time burglar! |
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8:04 pm EDT, Jul 28, 2004 |
flynn23 wrote:
]] Time abuse is a symptom of a problem, not the problem
]] itself. It is therefore impossible to cure a person of
]] time abuse by actually managing his time. Instead, you
]] must understand your time abuser's need for control and
]] fear of evaluations. From "Brother's Little Helper", enjoy this clip: Lisa: [runs into Bart's room] Bart, Bart! Krusty just fired his associate producer. Bart: [looking up from his book] I'm reading. Lisa: No way. [looks at book cover] The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pre-Teens? Is this all because of the ... [pantomimes gulping pills, and then walking like a zombie] Bart: Joke if you will, but did you know most people use 10% of their brains? I am now one of them. Before, my energy was all over the place. Now, it's concentrated like a laser beam. [stands up] Well, this has been terrific. Let's do it again sometime. Lisa: Are you standing up to get me to leave? Bart: It's from the book. Lisa: [reads] Hey, I'm not a time burglar. Bart: [types in electronic organizer] Memo to self: Lock door. Lisa: All right, I'll go. You don't have to be a jerk about it. Bart: [types] Memo to self: Shut up, Lisa. Lisa: Grrr! [leaves]
-- Highly effective, indeed, "Brother's Little Helper" Hey, I'm not a time burglar! |
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Federal Retirement Crisis |
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| Topic: Society |
8:33 am EDT, Jul 26, 2004 |
More than 50 percent of all federal employees are within five years of retirement, including 70 percent of all senior managers. Federal Retirement Crisis |
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| Topic: Society |
11:32 am EDT, Jun 26, 2004 |
It's time for us parents to stop thinking that our jobs as parents are limited to providing a comfortable, well-decorated house with a pretty lawn. We need to get more involved in our children's lives! At first glance, this letter might just seem cute, but you can infer from NYT's decision to publish it that this quip cuts to the quick for a disturbingly large number of its readers. Cute Quip Cuts to Quick |
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McLuhan's New World, by Tom Wolfe |
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| Topic: Society |
10:36 pm EDT, Jun 19, 2004 |
After the dot-com bust and the telecom nightmare, Marshall McLuhan, a man who died well before the coming of e-mails and webpages, remains the most clear-eyed prophet of our increasingly wired world. This article appears in the Spring 2004 issue of The Wilson Quarterly. Pick up a copy at your local newsstand or bookseller. McLuhan's New World, by Tom Wolfe |
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Shaping the Network Society |
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| Topic: Society |
6:42 pm EDT, Jun 19, 2004 |
Information and computer technologies are used every day by real people with real needs. The authors contributing to Shaping the Network Society describe how technology can be used effectively by communities, activists, and citizens to meet society's challenges. In their vision, computer professionals are concerned less with bits, bytes, and algorithms and more with productive partnerships that engage both researchers and community activists. These collaborations are producing important sociotechnical work that will affect the future of the network society. Traditionally, academic research on real-world users of technology has been neglected or even discouraged. The authors contributing to this book are working to fill this gap; their theoretical and practical discussions illustrate a new orientation -- research that works with people in their natural social environments, uses common language rather than rarefied academic discourse, and takes a pragmatic perspective. The topics they consider are key to democratization and social change. They include human rights in the "global billboard society"; public computing in Toledo, Ohio; public digital culture in Amsterdam; "civil networking" in the former Yugoslavia; information technology and the international public sphere; "historical archaeologies" of community networks; "technobiographical" reflections on the future; libraries as information commons; and globalization and media democracy, as illustrated by Indymedia, a global collective of independent media organizations. Manuel Castells had this to say: "It is essential reading for students and practitioners of the new forms of democracy in the Information Age." Shaping the Network Society |
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8:32 am EDT, Jun 18, 2004 |
A thuggish militia known as the Janjaweed has terrorized non-Arab communities in Sudan. Women have been raped and branded, villages razed and crops destroyed. More than 15,000 people have been killed and about a million more driven from their homes. Bush administration lawyers are busily studying whether this meets the legal definition of genocide, but that misses the point. Hundreds of thousands of lives may depend on quick, firm action. Time for Action on Sudan |
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Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future |
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| Topic: Society |
1:46 am EDT, Jun 15, 2004 |
How would the world change if we learned to access, individually and collectively, our deepest capacity to sense and shape the future? Radical and hopeful, Presence synthesizes leading-edge thinking, first-hand knowledge, and ancient wisdom to explore the living fields that connect us to one another, to life more broadly, and, potentially, to what is "seeking to emerge." A PDF of the introduction is available for download. Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future |
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