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Friday Links - 08/13/10
Mickey McManusCutting for stone, raising Chicago, duck knight, words, toast, and the problem with thinking too much.
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Friday Links - 07-24-2010
Mickey McManusAspen Ideas Festival, TEDGlobal, holograms, creativity, and edible brains.
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Friday Links - 06-19-2010
Mickey McManusFordlandia, under heaven, best small company to work for, slow motion disasters, rent a white guy, Al Franken explains the value of the constitution, best illusion of the year, and a real time world cup tracker.
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Friday Links - 04-30-2010
Mickey McManusFacejobs, the quantified life, didgets and data platforms, thinking about tomorrow, zip files all the way down, the marshmallow challenge, and the show book of the world.
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Friday Links - 04-16-10
Mickey McManusThe Girl with the Tattoo, the iPad Challenge, Ed Catmull and the Hybrid Problem Solver, Panorama, robodog and rosie, heat vision and jack, will it blend, an impressive portfolio, and shaking your way to literacy.
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Friday Links - 03-26-2010
Mickey McManusThe Ideas Economy, have paper will prototype, a case for design literacy, Black Hills, the heatswell coffee cup, an indoor tornado, the arrow of time (teeth edition), Ms. Badu visits Dallas, insect bling, and data data everywhere.
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Friday Links - 2-27-10
Mickey McManusVice guide to a strange land, Ninendo plays with dimensions, Tom Waits sings a song, digesting the web, charting the Beatles, cat food, mothership, and a glass harp virtuoso.
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"The Cloud" as Hindenburg?
Journalist James Fallows calls Mickey McManus’s reference to “The Cloud” as Hindenburg the “pithiest single sentence” he heard at the Aspen/Atlantic Ideas Festival. Mickey was a keynote at the Festival on July 7, 2010.
Read full articleNew Director of Development Leads MAYA’s Interstacks Initiative
New Director of Development Leads MAYA’s Interstacks Initiative
Read Full Press ReleaseMany businesses are finding less to worry about by shifting IT services to independent providers
In this Pittsburgh Business Times article about cloud computing, Mickey McManus takes a contrarian view, arguing that there are risks when businesses put their data into a few cloud companies.
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Cusp Conference 2010 - "The Design of Everything"
Mickey McManus will be a presenter at the Cusp Conference held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Theater in Chicago, September 22-23. The conference provides a broad framework for discussion about a wide range of ideas and topics related to “the design of everything.” Mickey will talk about biomimicry and its role in taming the complexity of the trillion node world.