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2008-03-27T16:17:59.123+01:00

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2008-03-27T16:17:44.399+01:00

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2008-02-12T18:50:07.648+01:00

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2008-02-12T18:47:59.949+01:00

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andypoo9898 -- good call on Br

2007-12-03T02:59:50.174+01:00

andypoo9898 -- good call on Brian Wilson. And if Target really used this without permission (hard to believe), I hope mr Noir sues the pants off 'em.

Just adding to the chorus -- t

2007-11-25T20:30:39.917+01:00

Just adding to the chorus -- terrific post. -- Ian (pssst... somethin' freaky going on with your RSS autodiscovery (pointing to native feed, and getting a 404) and FeedBurner redirect (pointing to "famous five-minute wordpress installation.)

Something awoke within me on r

2007-09-13T18:40:05.036+02:00

Something awoke within me on reading this. I didn't grow up within any religious tradition and have never in my life even entertained the notion of a god "being." I've never been comfortable with labeling myself atheist or agnostic, as both terms imply relationship with the concept of a sentient god -- hostility toward it, or ambivalence/uncertainty toward it -- and I have no relationship at all with that concept. And yet over the last five years I've learned to pray, and I recognize in this piece the essence of what I find in the act of prayer. (When I do it, that is -- it's definitely all about making it a practice, the more I pray the more rewarding and anchoring it becomes.) For me, prayer is about giving myself permission to feel loved, cared for, accepted -- unconditionally. It is about opening myself to feeling *a part of* the living universe, in this very instant of the present, instead of holding myself *apart from* the rest of "what Is." A Christian friend once took me by the shoulders and looked into my eyes and told me to "remember -- you ... are... a ... precious .. child ... of God." And even though I didn't hold with the details of the story he told himself about "what Is," I was lucky enough to hear something wordless and universal underneath his words, and accept it into myself (instead of throwing up a wall inside that says "no I'm not, I'm a tiny speck of detritus swirling in chaos"). And I knew I was experiencing "grace," in my own way. And in such moments, when I allow myself to feel a perfect part of the fabric of the living universe, I usually find that I want to do some things for myself and for others; I hear what my "best self" wants; I learn what's the next right thing for me to do. Thanks for waking up this part of myself. And thanks to Brogan for the pointer.

Jeffrey -- I spent 6 years w

2007-07-02T20:45:48.174+02:00

Jeffrey -- I spent 6 years working in the web department of a large nonprofit org, and I agree wholeheartedly that any organization that needs to communicate/interact with customers, members or constituents -- and is big enough to afford a dedicated web team -- should have a web division. I'd take it a step further, though: in this age of social software and enterprise 2.0, a lot of the innovation that's creating competitive advantage for businesses, political campaigns, and nonprofits is coming from the web people -- technologists, designers, IAs and other thinkers. In a web2.0 start-up, it's a given that IT and marketing strategies will be informed by all the powerful mechanisms web people have come up with in recent years to facilitate collaboration, communication, connection. It's understood that social computing and the "live web" have profoundly changed the game for just about any kind of organization, and that taking full advantage of these things is mission critical. Everywhere else, though, IT and marketing departments (especially IT) are more likely than notdoing things the way they've done them for years; they're too busy and/or incurious to keep up with the changes. And in failing to evolve, they are likely making big strategic decisions that hurt, embarrass, hamstring, even doom their organizations. They're certainly likely to be severely limiting the experimentation with social computing that any good web team will want to engage in these days. So, in my view, organizations generally need not only a web division but a C-level decisionmaker who's well-grounded in IT, marketing, communications, and web development issues -- and who belongs to the tribe of people who are pushing forward the evolution of the social web. Organizations need a CIO who's charged with strategic decisionmaking across all of those divisions, and who will lay out a path by which they can play well with each other. I wrote something about this here; many others -- Zack Exley for one, writing about political campaigns -- have been doing the same in their own fields.