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Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere

Because its true.

There is increasingly interest in happiness. However articles and books unfortunately make too little correct distinction between happy memories and experiences, which make a big difference. If you want to optimize your happiness, each needs a different approach. Social Economics clearly has much ground to gain here.

Als je ‘privacy is belangrijk’ zegt, hoor je nog te vaak: “hoezo, heb je iets te verbergen dan?”. Op vrijdagmiddag een filmpje ter lering ende vermaeck: het “niks te verbergen”-argument is onvolledig, onjuist en gevaarlijk. Maurice Wesseling, oud-directeur van Bits of Freedom, legt uit waarom het zóó 2004 is. [via]

Climate Change = Culture Change
Art is emotion.
And it is this very emotion which is lacking in the discussion

Dutch sculptor Ap Verheggen places huge sculptures on icebergs, inspired on Arctic culture that is changing because of climate change.

Website: Coolemotion.org
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“Deze non profit site is opgericht om goede doelen te helpen bij fondsenwerving met verkoopvergoedingen die normaal gesproken naar een tussenpersoon gaan.” Kortom een website waar vergoedingen op verkopen worden gedoneerd aan jouw goede doel.

Website: Gratishelpen.nl
Achtergrond: Frankwatching.com - Gratis helpen door te kopen

With over 36,000 tweets being made per minute, there are loads of conversations about you and your brand taking place on Twitter. To keep up with this data, we are now witnessing the emergence of numerous tools, applications and services which enable you to analyze your twitter account and keep an eye on the competition. Here we look at 10 tools which can be utilized by advanced users for conducting focused research about brands and the tweets related to them.

Read more @ Socialtimes.com

A TAT Cascades powered prototype of the Augmented ID concept. Accurate mobile face detection and recognition using Polar Rose’s FaceLib. Recognizr shows how powerful computer vision and 3D graphics can be used to create fast, precise and aesthetic augmented reality. This prototype runs on Android.

Website: Tat.se [via]
Blog: Mobileuserinterfaces.blogspot.com

While probably not fully scientific and with some slack, food for thought, why this is. For one, it does not show where the war comes from, thus indirect war then seems unrated. Another one, GDP vs peace, GDP vs religion, really that suprising? Ow, define peace…
still food for though.

No conversation about Enterprise 2.0 proceeds very far without coming to the idea of Return on Investment (ROI). Often champions of Enterprise 2.0 within the organization must be able to tell a compelling ROI story to their management before they can gain approval to move forward with their project.

Still, it is possible to affect positive ROI when it comes to Enterprise 2.0. It’s a matter of shaping the tools to the needs of your organization, knowing what you’re trying to achieve before you begin and taking an active approach to adoption. It’s about recognizing adoption not as something that happens, but as something you create.

The considerations that go into creating that adoption are the subject of this paper

Kevin Kelly draws out a long story about techology in general. However, he manages to make a point how to deal with Technology.