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Living On One—100 Pennies Per Person Per Day

How can I personally understand poverty and wealth? There is a fetching honesty to Living On One, the film from four documentarians out of the Claremont Colleges. These economics and film majors—all...

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What is Remarkable—in Your Industry?

Connect the Dots for Your Clients and their Customers Over at the Same Rowdy Crowd, Joe Loveland wrote about the best and worst of the Blogosphere. One of the points Loveland made is that the...

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I told them … I love you all very much

Ross MacDonald is an artist from Newtown, Connecticut. Image Credit: Ross MacDonald

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Mind Your Obits

This Week’s Hero: Wallace Allen (1919-2012) The things you learn from obituaries: Mr. Wallace Allen had been a long-lasting editor at the StarTribune (three decades) and passed away in December. During...

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CEOs Who Blog

Training your CEO to blog Not every CEO is a born monologuist—but many are cut from that cloth. Training your CEO to blog means helping her or him get comfortable with the notion she or he will be...

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How to Regain Wonder

Target cannot sell you a loaf of wonder It would seem that life beats wonder out of us. This project went sour. That team sucks. My career seems more about false starts and abrupt ends than ascendancy...

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Bending HIPAA Toward Spontaneity—Just for the Health of It

What if our propensity for over-sharing helped us get healthy? Writing for Fast Company, Jennifer Miller reported on a study that showed the amazing stickiness of Facebook status feeds over other...

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Glen Stubbe: “I did this thing. Let me show you.” (Shop Talk #7)

When Photojournalists Gather: MNPA Shop Talk I’d like to see more. And better. Photography, like sketching, is another way of interacting with what is right before us. Both photography and sketching...

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Can you tell the truth if your form is a liar?

Herzog & Morris & Searching for Sugar Man The politburo of Kirkistan recently made its way through two documentaries. One paved the way to fully appreciate the other. In Capturing Reality: The...

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Theology of Place: Minnesota

WWFD: What Would Fred Do? Ever since I read of Fred Sanders’ work developing a theology of place in California, I cannot stop thinking what such a set of thoughts and conversations would look like for...

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Everybody Attends the School of Hard Knocks

Grandad’s knowing was not so different from my own What knowledge works best? My grandfather, when faced with the schools and degrees and academic pursuits of his grandchildren, would typically say he...

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When you lose your job you step into the space between

Movement toward “What next?” A batch of colleagues lost their jobs in a fit of corporate downsizing. Smart, talented, loyal people who invested years are now asking “What next?” Same old story for my...

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Wendell Berry Wrote Death Right

The Memory of Old Jack: Is it passion or habit that overtakes us at the end? Now he feels ahead of him a quietness that he hastens toward. It seems to him that if he does not hasten, his weight will...

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Wing Young Huie On Seeing

When is a photo more real than what you saw? My photos make me question “real.” The eye is tricky and perception is problematic: what I believe I saw was different from the photo I took and the photo I...

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Puddles Pity Party Covers Lorde’s “Royals.” I Can’t Look Away.

The Scary-Tall Clown with the Remarkable Voice ###

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Click Farms Vs. Philip Glass

The Glass problem: Prolific production of something no one wants. I’ve heard rumblings of sweatshops where thumbs and fingers are put to use liking various social media status updates. An AP story...

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Inception Horn. Signal Today’s Significant Moments.

How Many Times Will You Press It? [The button works using Flash. It doesn't work on my mobile. http://inception.davepedu.com/ ] I’ve used it three times already–and it’s not even 7am. ### Creator:...

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Say It Again. Using Football. (Libero)

OK. Yeah. Maybe that makes sense. ### Via Ads of the World

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Technology is remarkable when it leads us to people

We forget this. There are irresistible bits all over the world wide web, naturally. We stumble on these irresistible bits and do what any human does: tell someone else. Our “Like” and “Forward to”...

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“Nothing Cheers Me…Like a Great Pair of Ears”

I like reading blogs because…detail In regular life you might never hear the word combinations that people reveal in blogs. Bloggers can answer questions you’d never dream to ask—and suddenly you are...

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