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Toshiba Snuffs Out Old Light Bulb Production, Embraces the Shiny LED Future
Of course it was cutting-edge tech for over a century, and the science that made them glow resulted in improved designs in terms of both efficiency and bulb longevity. The upcoming paradigm shift toward organic LEDs (OLED) will push this advantage yet further, while resulting in more natural light from the units. Toshiba hauled the gate shut for the final time on its incandescent light bulb factory today--ending a production run that dates back to 1890. The reason?
Fast Company - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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The reward of being truly effective in the public service - you get pushed out
Canada is now #12 ) Have a look at what he did - this is truly visionary - it was organic too - for instance the Digital Collections Program enabled teen agers to get paid experience - silverorange on PEI was born out of this program as the then boys worked for Veterans Affairs. His efforts have helped all Canadians and their communities get connected through 20,000 schools and libraries, 9,000 public access points and 10,000 voluntary organizations. In my posts about CAP sites and Canada's now sad position globally on the web - I mentioned Doug Hull - whom I see as being the best public servant in the country.
Robert Paterson's Weblog - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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ZumoDrive Brings Cloud Storage And Syncing Application To Android And Palm Devices
Additional features include video streaming from ZumoDrive directly to devices in MP4, H.264 format, music organized by artist, albums, and even playlists created on other devices, the ability to stream music in the background and listen to music over both 3G or EDGE networks. Additionally File syncing and storage startup Zumodrive is expanding its mobile offerings today with free applications for Android and Palm phones. While there are a plethora of syncing and storage services available to users, ZumoDrive, which spawned from Y Combinator startup Zecter, has a different
TechCrunch - Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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  • Bring Power to the Edge
    The four fundamental principles of the agile, "edge-based" organization are situational awareness, skills, values, and decision rights. In other words, these troops are able to dynamically adjust to their predicaments so well because they share information broadly, train their people how to use that data appropriately, imbue them with the right values so that they act with integrity, and allow for them to take action — by giving the rights to make decisions to the very skin of the organization. For instance, special forces teams are able to deal effectively with the most complex and dynamic situations because they have been designed to be able to be extremely agile.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, May 28, 2009
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  • Natural Organization - Fire Brigade - A Modern Example
    Is there a modern example of the Natural Organization hiding in plain site? It is how fire fighters organize. Years ago I won in a raffle dinner for 4 at Fire Station Number 1 in Toronto with the crew and the Deputy Chief. As I heard the chief speak, I knew that all my ideas about how an organization should be organized were wrong. Yes there is. I was an investment banker then.
    Robert Paterson's Weblog - Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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  • A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization
    aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization A lot of organizations are struggling organizations and software developers are trying to cobble these on to the organizations, who consider them a threat, shut them down and censure the BLOG A Practical Guide to Implementing Implementing Web 2.0 (aka
    How to Save the World - Friday, May 29, 2009
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  • Facette: Organize Your Delicious Bookmarks
    Delicious , Yahoo's online bookmarking tool, only forces a very loose organization upon its users. With Facette, you can create a more organized data set on Delicious, as it forces you to be more specific about how you want to categorize each new bookmark. Being a research project, Facette is still a little bit rough around the edges, but it looks like a great way to keep your Delicious library more organized - especially when you are using Delicious to keep track of a larger While this straightforward method is great for most users, it can often make finding bookmarks harder in the long run, especially when you manage a large collection of bookmarks on the service.
    ReadWriteWeb - Monday, February 16, 2009
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  • Natural Organization - Valdis Krebs - Galileo for our time?
    This is what the new organization looks like: Here Valdis  uses a real community - (OCL) - on the outside a loose group of "lurkers". It also acts as the sun in that this group also shines energy out that reaches to the far edges of the outer group. Here is Valdis' view of the core or as I call it the "Sun". Here is another view of what the "Sun" can do - it is an adoption force. If you wish to have your organization I think when the history books are written that one of  the Galileo's of our time - a person who used scientific tools to see a new reality that changes our paradigm - will be  Valdis Krebs.  
    Robert Paterson's Weblog - Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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  • Organized Information is the Next Moonshot
    The central theme of the information revolution is that more and more intelligence has simultaneously moved both toward the edge and toward the center. Those leaders who build an organizational system that can gather more information, make sense of it quicker, and take action more decisively have crafted an organization with a higher collective IQ than their competition. Consequently, I believe the next "moonshot" is figuring out how we can raise the collective IQ of the people who are gathering and making sense of information that can be collected remotely. The media is busy repurposing footage of Buzz Aldrin's desire that President Obama fund a mission to Mars .
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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  • Audio in eLearning: When Rough Around the Edges is Better
    One of the participants talked about a focus group/research project his organization did. So you've got one version that's pretty rough around the edges and one version that's smooth and polished. At our seminar today on using Articulate and Moodle and "Doing More for Less" , the conversation turned (as it always does) to using audio in eLearning. I don't have the specifics and I'll try to track him down to find out more because the results were fascinating.
    Learning Visions - Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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  • Natural Organization - The Rules - Part 3 - The Design - The Structure
    On the other hand, many people who feel uncomfortable in conventional organizations are always going on about bottom up. What it shows is that a natural organization - in this case a productive garden - has a functional hierarchy. Even the edge on the outside of wild. To our eyes, so used to control, this looks chaotic. Jungly.
    Robert Paterson's Weblog - Monday, June 8, 2009
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  • Is this the time for a New Renaissance and Reformation?
    Maybe we are on the edge of the kind of momentous shift that we experienced in the Middle Ages? Tags: Natural Organization Credit Food Natural Organization Peak Oil Permacultur I have been learning about Permaculture last week. It's interesting that even the spell check does not recognize the word. In so doing I have had the
    Robert Paterson's Weblog - Monday, April 13, 2009
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  • Geek.Menu Organizes Your USB Applications [Featured Windows Download]
    The tray icon stays fixed to the edge of the tray, even as other icons appear and disappear. Windows only: Geek.Menu is a fork of the PortableApps.com menu that includes a host of extra features and customizations. The over all appearance of Geek.Menu is very similar to the PortableApps.com menu it split from. You won't find yourself clicking in the wrong spot and opening your documents instead of your videos for instance.
    Lifehacker - Monday, January 12, 2009
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