Rowan's Future of Choice

Wouldn’t know a good graph from a George Foreman Grill

Stephen Few's Visual Business Intelligence blog is consistently good. He caught this BI company making an awful chart.

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What to do

Bruce Sterling had some good advice for all of us at WebStock 09:

"I've never seen so much panic around me, but panic is the last thing on my mind. My mood is eager impatience. I want to see our best, most creative, best-intentioned people in world society directly attacking our worst problems. I'm bored with the deceit. I'm tired of obscurantism and cover-ups. I'm disgusted with cynical spin and the culture war for profit. I'm up to here with phony baloney market fundamentalism. I despise a prostituted society where we put a dollar sign in front of our eyes so we could run straight into the ditch.

The cure for panic is action. Coherent action is great; for a scatterbrained web society, that may be a bit much to ask. Well, any action is better than whining. We can do better.

I'm not gonna tell you what to do. I'm an artist, I'm not running for office and I don't want any of your money. Just talk among yourselves. Grow up to the size of your challenges. Bang out some code, build some platforms you don't have to duct-tape any more, make more opportunities than you can grab for your little selves, and let's get after living real lives.

The future is unwritten. Thank you very much."

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Decisions are social

If you fall over in the street, do not just yell 'help' -- point at a person and give them specific instructions.

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