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Dan Gilbert talks about threats and risks at Pop!Tech 2007

October 20, 2007

Dan Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and the author of the best-selling “Stumbling on Happiness”, kicked off the second day of presentations at Pop!Tech with an entertaining talk about why humans carefully heed some risks and almost completely disregard others. Using global warming as an example of a threat that fails to [...]

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Cyberactivism in Russia: Gravikol 21 and the first anti-corporate rebellion

October 17, 2007

For the past few days the Russian Internet has been shaken by one of the first instances of bloggers  collectively rebelling against a corporation, proactively using the blogosphere to cause a major disruption in its physical operations and forcing a potential inquiry into the company’s activities by Russian authorities. Here’s a short summary of [...]

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Cyberactivism 101: notes on emerging distributed advocacy in the case of Usmanov vs Murray

September 23, 2007

If Borat ever ventures into Uzbekistan, he may want to replace his sparring partner Azamat Bagatov (yes, that big hairy man who was fighting Borat in a hotel room), Alisher Usmanov would be a much better choice (hey, that rhymes!).  Artistically, that’s a replacement way better (bigger, stronger)  than the original: Usmanov is an Uzbekistan-born man [...]

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The long-awaited update

September 8, 2007

So after taking an extended blog holiday, I’ve decided it’s high time to bring this blog back to life! As some of you may know, I’ve been traveling extensively for most of the summer (and I am still traveling for a few more months, I think), so access was not always as good as I [...]

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Welcome!

April 15, 2007

It’s time to kick off this new blog with the first post. It’s not my first blog, and probably not my last one. I used to blog at Sharp&Sound, where I mostly shared my thoughts and observations on global affairs, with a heavy Eurasian focus. As I found out, this is not a very exciting [...]

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