Bruce Dixon: Where Have all the Powerful Ideas Gone? (more)

Milanote is the Evernote for creatives (more)

Rory Sutherland: A College Degree course should last a year – after that, let them pay (more)

The Sci-Fi Guru Who Predicted Google Earth Explains Silicon Valley’s Latest Obsession. Here, with the benefit of 25 years of hindsight, Neal Stephenson talked to the Hive about the differences between augmented and virtual reality, how to create a convincing Metaverse, and why social media is driving us apart. (more)

after the Industrial Age (more)

A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree (more)

Amazon will buy Whole Foods for more than $13 billion, Bloomberg News and others reported Friday morning. (more)

Knowledge Management. Whatever the heck that is. (more)

Social Networking site (more)

book by Pat Kane ISBN:0330489305 http://theplayethic.typepad.com/ (more)

Rob Henderson: Would People Agree About Everything If We Paid Them? (more)

Talk of a Skills Gap in the Labor Market is 'an incredible cop out' (more)

Daniel Greenberg book: A New Look At Schools ISBN:1-888-94703-9 (more)

Sanders Kleinfeld says: I’m currently most excited about Revolution #3, which just started to take hold in early 2012, when folks deeply invested in the implications of Revolutions #1 and #2 started asking, “How do you create these postmodern EBook-s that contain more than just text and pictures, which people will read on eInk ereaders, tablets, and smartphones?”... Revolution #3 isn’t really defined by a new piece of hardware, software product, or platform. Instead, it’s really marked by a dramatic paradigm change among authors and publishers, who are shifting their toolsets away from legacy word processing (Word Processor) and Desktop Publishing suites, and toward HTML-5 and tools built on the OpenWeb Platform... Anyone who truly wants to engage with the challenge posed by Revolution #2 and be a part of evolving the medium of the “book” needs to take seriously the notion of Digital First content development. (more)

Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.) (more)

Educating Kids without a Curriculum. (more)

Russian Breach of 39 States Threatens Future U.S. Elections. ...Illinois board of elections. The hackers had gained access to the state’s voter database, which contained information such as names, dates of birth, genders, driver’s licenses and partial Social Security numbers on 15 million people, half of whom were active voters. As many as 90,000 records were ultimately compromised. (more)

A high-fat (40% of total calories consumed) diet that's supposed to be good for you. Hooray for Olive Oil and Fish. (more)

Adam Leipzig's TEDx talk on finding your Life Purpose in 5 minutes. (more)

Dan Woods and Peter Thoeny have launched the StructuredWikis service. It doesn't look like they host WikiFarms, but rather do Enterprise implementation, consulting, and training based around TWiki. Their Market Segment is (given their name) the use of Structured Data in Wiki for Work-Flow and other apps; JotSpot doesn't seem to have pushed that aspect of their system since the initial launch. (more)