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Protecting privacy in the age of information: the 2010 US Census

January 18, 2010

I’ve been doing some family research this past year, trying to uncover my mother’s father’s heritage. One of the most powerful tools has been the online editions of the U.S. Census from the late 19th and early 20th Century. Looking at these forms closely, you’re able to piece together the mosaic of [...]

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Frick & Frack ruminate & give us a lesson on the present day nature of political discourse

January 18, 2010

“If necessity knows no law, then neither does power”
I’ve been musing over the state of our national discourse a lot recently.
The stakes of our socioeconomic quandary feel very stark. Mountains of debt and millions of unemployed putting pressure on a systems of goods, services and production that looks like what philosophers call a self-contained [...]

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The lost decade: Harbinger of change or beginning of decline

January 4, 2010

A steady meme over the past month has been the zero sum game that comprised the U.S. economy over the past decade. Net job creation was at zero; GDP, adjusted for inflation, grew less than 20%; and, household net worth (through November 2009) was down 4%.
The Washington Post ran a great graphic contrasting the [...]

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10 years past, 10 years forward

December 23, 2009

10 doesn’t sound like a big number, but when you start looking back over a decade, 10 years of an ever-expanding and innovating world, 10 years feels huge and unwieldy.
At the beginning of this past decade (the first decade of the 21th Century…how cool!) I was working with an Internet company called Themestream, started by [...]

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Post #336

December 21, 2009

On January 4, I posted the first of more than 335 posts published in 2009 on this blog.
That first post was a Welcome and Introduction. I laid out my intention to  some of the best thinking about the economy, media and marketing that I encountered as I travelled around the country doing the things that [...]

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Understanding your emotional balance when your partner slams the laptop shut on your fingers

December 3, 2009

A few years ago, Microsoft’s Linda Stone coined the term continuous partial attention to describe the new way of moving through tasks, time and devices that was developing in the portable digital age.
I call what we’re doing today continuous partial attention, or cpa, for short. In 1997, I created this meme to differentiate between [...]

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Getting ready for winter

October 5, 2009

The seasons are changing and this weekend Tami and I went out to stock up on simple things like decorative squashes (Pumpkins!), Halloween nick-nacks and other assorted items. Inevitably, we thought of other things that we needed and one stop led to another and we ended visiting a bunch of different stores. Here’s [...]

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