Episode #26: Guy Kawasaki

Known for marketing the Macintosh in 1984, venture capitalist, author of The Art of the Start, and his new book Enchantment, Guy Kawasaki, is this week's guest.


The Art of the Start
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anythin

What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers.

The Art of the Start will give you the essential steps to launch great products, services, and companies—whether you are dreaming of starting the next Microsoft or a not-for-profit that’s going to change the world. It also shows managers how to unleash entrepreneurial thinking at established companies, helping them foster the pluck and creativity that their businesses need to stay ahead of the pack. Kawasaki provides readers with GIST—Great Ideas for Starting Things—including his field-tested insider’s techniques for bootstrapping, branding, networking, recruiting, pitching, rainmaking, and, most important in this fickle consumer climate, building buzz.

At Apple, Kawasaki helped turn ordinary customers into fanatics. As founder and CEO of Garage Technology Ventures, he has tested his iconoclastic ideas on real- world start- ups. And as an irrepressible columnist for Forbes, he has honed his best thinking about The Art of the Start.


Enchantment
Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions is Guy’s tenth book. In it, he explains how to influence what people will do while maintaining the highest standards of ethics.

The book explains when and why enchantment is necessary and then the pillars of enchantment: likability, trustworthiness, and a great cause.

The next topics are launching, overcoming resistance, making enchantment endure, and using technology. There are even special chapters dedicated to enchanting your employees and your boss.

Finally, because there are times you may want to resist enchantment, there’s even a chapter about how to do this too.

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However, they decided to replace it with GLaDOSiri, which is way better.

Inspired by my love of Portal, and GLaDOS' inevitable take over of every iPhone in America.

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Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China

The night before I was heading for Scotland, I was invited to host the final of "China's Got Talent" show in Shanghai with the 80,000 live audience in the stadium. Guess who was the performing guest? Susan Boyle. And I told her, "I'm going to Scotland the next day." She sang beautifully, and she even managed to say a few words in Chinese. [Chinese] So it's not like "hello" or "thank you," that ordinary stuff. It means "green onion for free." Why did she say that? Because it was a line from our Chinese parallel Susan Boyle -- a 50-some year-old woman, a vegetable vendor in Shanghai, who loves singing Western opera, but she didn't understand any English or French or Italian, so she managed to fill in the lyrics with vegetable names in Chinese. (Laughter) And the last sentence of Nessun Dorma that she was singing in the stadium was "green onion for free." So [as] Susan Boyle was saying that, 80,000 live audience sang together. That was hilarious.

So I guess both Susan Boyle and this vegetable vendor in Shanghai belonged to otherness. They were the least expected to be successful in the business called entertainment, yet their courage and talent brought them through. And a show and a platform gave them the stage to realize their dreams. Well, being different is not that difficult. We are all different from different perspectives. But I think being different is good, because you present a different point of view. You may have the chance to make a difference.

My generation has been very fortunate to witness and participate in the historic transformation of China that has made so many changes in the past 20, 30 years. I remember that in the year of 1990, when I was graduating from college, I was applying for a job in the sales department of the first five-star hotel in Beijing, Great Wall Sheraton -- it's still there. So after being interrogated by this Japanese manager for a half an hour, he finally said, "So, Miss Yang, do you have any questions to ask me?" I summoned my courage and poise and said, "Yes, but could you let me know, what actually do you sell?" I didn't have a clue what a sales department was about in a five-star hotel. That was the first day I set my foot in a five-star hotel.

Around the same time, I was going through an audition -- the first ever open audition by national television in China -- with another thousand college girls. The producer told us they were looking for some sweet, innocent and beautiful fresh face. So when it was my turn, I stood up and said, "Why [do] women's personalities on television always have to be beautiful, sweet, innocent and, you know, supportive? Why can't they have their own ideas and their own voice?" I thought I kind of offended them. But actually, they were impressed by my words. And so I was in the second round of competition, and then the third and the fourth. After seven rounds of competition, I was the last one to survive it. So I was on a national television prime-time show. And believe it or not, that was the first show on Chinese television that allowed its hosts to speak out of their own minds without reading an approved script. (Applause) And my weekly audience at that time was between 200 to 300 million people.

Well after a few years, I decided to go to the U.S. and Columbia University to pursue my postgraduate studies, and then started my own media company, which was unthought of during the years that I started my career. So we do a lot of things. I've interviewed more than a thousand people in the past. And sometimes I have young people approaching me say, "Lan, you changed my life," and I feel proud of that. But then we are also so fortunate to witness the transformation of the whole country. I was in Beijing's bidding for the Olympic Games. I was representing the Shanghai Expo. I saw China embracing the world and vice versa. But then sometimes I'm thinking, what are today's young generation up to? How are they different, and what are the differences they are going to make to shape the future of China, or at large, the world?

So today I want to talk about young people through the platform of social media. First of all, who are they? [What] do they look like? Well this is a girl called Guo Meimei -- 20 years old, beautiful. She showed off her expensive bags, clothes and car on her microblog, which is the Chinese version of Twitter. And she claimed to be the general manager of Red Cross at the Chamber of Commerce. She didn't realize that she stepped on a sensitive nerve and aroused national questioning, almost a turmoil, against the credibility of Red Cross. The controversy was so heated that the Red Cross had to open a press conference to clarify it, and the investigation is going on.

So far, as of today, we know that she herself made up that title -- probably because she feels proud to be associated with charity. All those expensive items were given to her as gifts by her boyfriend, who used to be a board member in a subdivision of Red Cross at Chamber of Commerce. It's very complicated to explain. But anyway, the public still doesn't buy it. It is still boiling. It shows us a general mistrust of government or government-backed institutions, which lacked transparency in the past. And also it showed us the power and the impact of social media as microblog.

Microblog boomed in the year of 2010, with visitors doubled and time spent on it tripled. Sina.com, a major news portal, alone has more than 140 million microbloggers. On Tencent, 200 million. The most popular blogger -- it's not me -- it's a movie star, and she has more than 9.5 million followers, or fans. About 80 percent of those microbloggers are young people, under 30 years old. And because, as you know, the traditional media is still heavily controlled by the government, social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.

So through microblogging, we are able to understand Chinese youth even better. So how are they different? First of all, most of them were born in the 80s and 90s, under the one-child policy. And because of selected abortion by families who favored boys to girls, now we have ended up with 30 million more young men than women. That could pose a potential danger to the society, but who knows; we're in a globalized world, so they can look for girlfriends from other countries. Most of them have fairly good education. The illiteracy rate in China among this generation is under one percent. In cities, 80 percent of kids go to college. But they are facing an aging China with a population above 65 years old coming up with seven-point-some percent this year, and about to be 15 percent by the year of 2030. And you know we have the tradition that younger generations support the elders financially, and taking care of them when they're sick. So it means young couples will have to support four parents who have a life expectancy of 73 years old.

So making a living is not that easy for young people. College graduates are not in short supply. In urban areas, college graduates find the starting salary is about 400 U.S. dollars a month, while the average rent is above $500. So what do they do? They have to share space -- squeezed in very limited space to save money -- and they call themselves "tribe of ants." And for those who are ready to get married and buy their apartment, they figured out they have to work for 30 to 40 years to afford their first apartment. That ratio in America would only cost a couple five years to earn, but in China it's 30 to 40 years with the skyrocketing real estate price.

Among the 200 million migrant workers, 60 percent of them are young people. They find themselves sort of sandwiched between the urban areas and the rural areas. Most of them don't want to go back to the countryside, but they don't have the sense of belonging. They work for longer hours with less income, less social welfare. And they're more vulnerable to job losses, subject to inflation, tightening loans from banks, appreciation of the renminbi, or decline of demand from Europe or America for the products they produce. Last year, though, an appalling incident in a southern OEM manufacturing compound in China: 13 young workers in their late teens and early 20s committed suicide, just one by one like causing a contagious disease. But they died because of all different personal reasons. But this whole incident aroused a huge outcry from society about the isolation, both physical and mental, of these migrant workers.

For those who do return back to the countryside, they find themselves very welcome locally, because with the knowledge, skills and networks they have learned in the cities, with the assistance of the Internet, they're able to create more jobs, upgrade local agriculture and create new business in the less developed market. So for the past few years, the coastal areas, they found themselves in a shortage of labor.

These diagrams show a more general social background. The first one is the Engels coefficient, which explains that the cost of daily necessities has dropped its percentage all through the past decade, in terms of family income, to about 37-some percent. But then in the last two years, it goes up again to 39 percent, indicating a rising living cost. The Gini coefficient has already passed the dangerous line of 0.4. Now it's 0.5 -- even worse than that in America -- showing us the income inequality. And so you see this whole society getting frustrated about losing some of its mobility. And also, the bitterness and even resentment towards the rich and the powerful is quite widespread. So any accusations of corruption or backdoor dealings between authorities or business would arouse a social outcry or even unrest.

So through some of the hottest topics on microblogging, we can see what young people care most about. Social justice and government accountability runs the first in what they demand. For the past decade or so, a massive urbanization and development have let us witness a lot of reports on the forced demolition of private property. And it has aroused huge anger and frustration among our young generation. Sometimes people get killed, and sometimes people set themselves on fire to protest. So when these incidents are reported more and more frequently on the Internet, people cry for the government to take actions to stop this.

So the good news is that earlier this year, the state council passed a new regulation on house requisition and demolition and passed the right to order forced demolition from local governments to the court. Similarly, many other issues concerning public safety is a hot topic on the Internet. We heard about polluted air, polluted water, poisoned food. And guess what, we have faked beef. They have sorts of ingredients that you brush on a piece of chicken or fish, and it turns it to look like beef. And then lately, people are very concerned about cooking oil, because thousands of people have been found [refining] cooking oil from restaurant slop. So all these things have aroused a huge outcry from the Internet. And fortunately, we have seen the government responding more timely and also more frequently to the public concerns.

While young people seem to be very sure about their participation in public policy-making, but sometimes they're a little bit lost in terms of what they want for their personal life. China is soon to pass the U.S. as the number one market for luxury brands -- that's not including the Chinese expenditures in Europe and elsewhere. But you know what, half of those consumers are earning a salary below 2,000 U.S. dollars. They're not rich at all. They're taking those bags and clothes as a sense of identity and social status. And this is a girl explicitly saying on a TV dating show that she would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle. But of course, we do have young people who would still prefer to smile, whether in a BMW or [on] a bicycle.

So in the next picture, you see a very popular phenomenon called "naked" wedding, or "naked" marriage. It does not mean they will wear nothing in the wedding, but it shows that these young couples are ready to get married without a house, without a car, without a diamond ring and without a wedding banquet, to show their commitment to true love. And also, people are doing good through social media. And the first picture showed us that a truck caging 500 homeless and kidnapped dogs for food processing was spotted and stopped on the highway with the whole country watching through microblogging. People were donating money, dog food and offering volunteer work to stop that truck. And after hours of negotiation, 500 dogs were rescued. And here also people are helping to find missing children. A father posted his son's picture onto the Internet. After thousands of [unclear], the child was found, and we witnessed the reunion of the family through microblogging.

So happiness is the most popular word we have heard through the past two years. Happiness is not only related to personal experiences and personal values, but also, it's about the environment. People are thinking about the following questions: Are we going to sacrifice our environment further to produce higher GDP? How are we going to perform our social and political reform to keep pace with economic growth, to keep sustainability and stability? And also, how capable is the system of self-correctness to keep more people content with all sorts of friction going on at the same time? I guess these are the questions people are going to answer. And our younger generation are going to transform this country while at the same time being transformed themselves.

Thank you very much.

(Applause)

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Elon Musk's space ferries will one day require nothing so prosaic as parachutes to soften their landings. Instead, SpaceX's latest 'Dragon' design will rely totally on rocket boosters for the final leg of its descent. In fact, take that notion and triple it: it's intended that each of the Dragon's three sub-sections will be able to return to earth separately under boost power, making the system 100 percent reusable. Check out the slick animation after the break and then see this for a dose of reality.

Children's Portrait Photography with Tamara Lackey: Introduction

Celebrated children's photographer Tamara Lackey leads a special 3-day worldwide workshop on the magic, art, and business of child portrait photography.

Take a live, front-row seat with Tamara as she works with a wide range of kids. You'll watch as she works to put them at ease, gets them laughing, and coaxes out their natural personality for fun poses and great family portraits.

More importantly, you'll be part of an ongoing weekend conversation with fellow photographers around the world about how to grow your own successful portrait photography business, while balancing personal and professional lives.

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Photoshop Touch apps and SDK extend desktop functionality to iPad and other tablets

Any discussion about Adobe and the iPad seems to always devolve into a Flash vs. HTML5 debate. For today at least, Adobe's hoping to temporarily refocus the conversation on a trio of new tools that extend desktop Photoshop functionality to the iPad via native iOS apps. First up is Adobe Eazel, an iPad drawing app that lets you create a five-fingered painting on the iPad before transferring it back over WiFi to the Photoshop application running on your Mac or PC. Adobe Nav turns the iPad into a Photoshop companion device by extending live controls and menu bars from the Photoshop workspace to the iPad's display. Finally, there's Adobe Color Lava which turns the iPad into a hi-tech color mixing palette. Of course, these are just the first in what Adobe hopes to be a full range of Photoshop extensions hitting app stores just as soon as devs get their talents around Adobe's Photoshop Touch programming tools (consisting of a Photoshop scripting engine and enhanced SDK) for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS devices (available for Mac and Windows platforms today). Expect to see the Eazel, Color Lava, and Nav Photoshop Touch apps arrive next month -- alongside the 5.5 update to Adobe's Creative Suite (and free Photoshop update for CS owners) expected on May 3rd -- with prices ranging from $1.99 to $4.99. Until then, why not feast your eyes on a video preview posted after the break?

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Lego Tries Augmented Reality With “Life Of George” Game

The game marks Lego’s further attempts at capitalizing on its strong lead in children’s toys into new markets. The impetus for Life Of George is based on the success of the Lego series of video games (Lego Harry Potter, Lego Indiana Jones, Lego My Dinner With Andre) as well as its quiet but apparently popular Lego Universe, a brick-based MMO. By adding a casual game like Life of George, with it’s candy-coated graphics and clever gameplay, you grab the kids who may not want to bring their entire Lego collection to Grandma’s but still want to play with their blocks. As a parent, I find that the game is also helpful in teaching counting and hand-eye coordination as you need to find blocks as quickly as possible and then smoosh them together.

Naysayers will note that George does not offer much in the way of imaginative play and I’d agree. But, as we all know, making the thing on the Lego box is often far more exciting than making another “car” using the big green board and a bunch of bricks. There’s a reason behemoths like the 1200-piece Millennium Falcon exists: people love to build things with Lego, but they don’t always want to be structural engineers.

To be clear, Life Of George is a casual game in the vein of Cut The Rope or Angry Birds. You play it for a while, maybe forget about it, maybe dump all of the pieces into the main Lego box down the line. However, at $29 plus a free iOS download (a price I suspect will go down over time) it’s a fun way to interact with your Lego using electronics.

Video: Jeff Bezos Demos The Kindle Fire

The highlight of today’s Amazon event was when CEO Jeff Bezos finally announced the Kindle Fire about midway through. We captured it on video, and you can see for yourself how Bezos introduced the device.

He demos the unique interface, which highlights the media you’ve interacted with most recently. There is also Whispersync for movies, which lets you pick up watching a movie where you left off when you move between devices. And he even plays Fruit Ninja to show off the dual-core processor’s speed.

You can also watch our hands-on videos for both the Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch to see the devices in action some more (but the one above is the only one with Bezos). And here is more coverage of the Kindle Fire and the rest of the Kindle family.

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Disney’s Appmates Turn The iPad Into An Interactive Playmat

I wasn’t much for playing with toy cars as a kid — you’d have found me parked in front of a Sega Genesis, if anything — but I suspect Disney Mobile’s new line of Appmate iPad peripherals would have been just the thing to change my mind.

The Appmates and the iPad work in tandem to create a pretty novel play experience. Featuring the likenesses of characters from Cars 2, the Appmates are miniature figures with special sensors mounted on the bottom.

Those sensors (patent pending, naturally) identify each particular figure to the iPad, so it will know the difference between Tow Mater and and Lightning McQueen even if you don’t.

By gently pressing the figure down on the screen, the corresponding app essentially turns the iPad into an interactive playmat. Since the iPad can differentiate between characters, players will hear different bits of narration and dialogue depending on the figure they’re using.

The app itself takes a sandbox approach to the Cars world: players can engage in races with other characters, complete missions to pick up some virtual cash, or just tool around scenic Radiator Springs. It’s an incredibly cool concept, and one that you can believe Disney will milk in coming months.

The last time we heard from Disney Mobile was during the launch of “Where’s My Water?”, an iOS game starring a brand new character who they hoped would hit an Angry Birds level of ubiquity. The plan seems to be working so far, as Where’s My Water? has since overtaken Angry Birds in the Top Paid Apps chart. If the Appmates gain the same kind of traction, expect to see them everywhere just in time for the holidays.

Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite!

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Sunni Brown
In her book "Gamestorming," Sunni Brown shows how using art and games can empower serious problem-solving.

ABOUT THIS TALK

Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension -- and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we're caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says: Doodlers, unite! She makes the case for unlocking your brain via pad and pen.



TRANSCRIPT

So I just want to tell you my story. I spend a lot of time teaching adults how to use visual language and doodling in the workplace. And naturally, I encounter a lot of resistance, because it's considered to be anti-intellectual and counter to serious learning. But I have a problem with that belief, because I know that doodling has a profound impact on the way that we can process information and the way that we can solve problems.

So I was curious about why there was a disconnect between the way our society perceives doodling and the way that the reality is. So I discovered some very interesting things. For example, there's no such thing as a flattering definition of a doodle. In the 17th century, a doodle was a simpleton or a fool -- as in Yankee Doodle. In the 18th century, it became a verb, and it meant to swindle or ridicule or to make fun of someone. In the 19th century, it was a corrupt politician. And today, we have what is perhaps our most offensive definition, at least to me, which is the following: To doodle officially means to dawdle, to dilly dally, to monkey around, to make meaningless marks, to do something of little value, substance or import, and -- my personal favorite -- to do nothing. No wonder people are averse to doodling at work. Doing nothing at work is akin to masturbating at work; it's totally inappropriate.

(Laughter)

Additionally, I've heard horror stories from people whose teachers scolded them, of course, for doodling in classrooms. And they have bosses who scold them for doodling in the boardroom. There is a powerful cultural norm against doodling in settings in which we are supposed to learn something. And unfortunately, the press tends to reinforce this norm when they're reporting on a doodling scene -- of an important person at a confirmation hearing and the like -- they typically use words like "discovered" or "caught" or "found out," as if there's some sort of criminal act being committed.

And additionally, there is a psychological aversion to doodling -- thank you, Freud. In the 1930s, Freud told us all that you could analyze people's psyches based on their doodles. This is not accurate, but it did happen to Tony Blair at the Davos Forum in 2005, when his doodles were, of course, "discovered" and he was labeled the following things. Now it turned out to be Bill Gates' doodle. (Laughter) And Bill, if you're here, nobody thinks you're megalomaniacal. But that does contribute to people not wanting to share their doodles.

And here is the real deal. Here's what I believe. I think that our culture is so intensely focused on verbal information that we're almost blinded to the value of doodling. And I'm not comfortable with that. And so because of that belief that I think needs to be burst, I'm here to send us all hurtling back to the truth. And here's the truth: doodling is an incredibly powerful tool, and it is a tool that we need to remember and to re-learn.

So here's a new definition for doodling. And I hope there's someone in here from The Oxford English Dictionary, because I want to talk to you later. Here's the real definition: Doodling is really to make spontaneous marks to help yourself think. That is why millions of people doodle. Here's another interesting truth about the doodle: People who doodle when they're exposed to verbal information retain more of that information than their non-doodling counterparts. We think doodling is something you do when you lose focus, but in reality, it is a preemptive measure to stop you from losing focus. Additionally, it has a profound effect on creative problem-solving and deep information processing.

There are four ways that learners intake information so that they can make decisions. They are visual, auditory, reading and writing and kinesthetic. Now in order for us to really chew on information and do something with it, we have to engage at least two of those modalities, or we have to engage one of those modalities coupled with an emotional experience. The incredible contribution of the doodle is that it engages all four learning modalities simultaneously with the possibility of an emotional experience. That is a pretty solid contribution for a behavior equated with doing nothing.

This is so nerdy, but this made me cry when I discovered this. So they did anthropological research into the unfolding of artistic activity in children, and they found that, across space and time, all children exhibit the same evolution in visual logic as they grow. In other words, they have a shared and growing complexity in visual language that happens in a predictable order. And I think that is incredible. I think that means doodling is native to us and we simply are denying ourselves that instinct. And finally, a lot a people aren't privy to this, but the doodle is a precursor to some of our greatest cultural assets. This is but one: this is Frank Gehry the architect's precursor to the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi.

So here is my point: Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high. And I will go you one further. Because doodling is so universally accessible and it is not intimidating as an art form, it can be leveraged as a portal through which we move people into higher levels of visual literacy. My friends, the doodle has never been the nemesis of intellectual thought. In reality, it is one of its greatest allies.

Thank you. (Applause)

Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch

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Abraham Verghese
In our era of the patient-as-data-point, Abraham Verghese believes in the old-fashioned physical exam, the bedside chat, the power of informed observation.

Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School

Project based learning is hardly a new concept!

It is a cornerstone to progressive education in many places. It is certainly relevant and engaging for many students, but there are some it does not suit so every school program needs a balance (or choices) to be able to cater for the needs of all students.

"On the beginning of a journey"...my goodness, look to other examples in the world where this has been tried and tested for decades and decades!

Are they really that far behind in the UK and USA?






ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Geoff Mulgan
Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation, a center for social innovation, social enterprise and public policy that pioneers ideas in fields such as aging, education and poverty reduction.…

Awesome Dutch Design Duo Scholten & Baijings & Their Philosophy [Video]

Dutch Design Fashion Architecture from Scholten & Baijings on Vimeo.

From Everybody Sing Along with Mitch!

"A time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted."

An analogy: You can talk about love, which certainly is fun, or you can make love, which also is good.

As Pete Seeger sang: "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven."

We may swing back around, with enough new rebooting under our belts, with a need to talk about it some more.




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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

A closer look at iOS 5

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The Sibling Effect


Time science writer, Jeffrey Kluger looks at the bonds between siblings. In The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal about Us, Kluger explores the complex world of siblings in a way that is equal parts science, psychology, sociology, and memoir. Based on new and emerging research, it looks at birth order, twin studies, genetic encoding of behavioral traits, emotional disorders and their effects on-and effects from-sibling relationships.




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Talk of the Nation [20 min 6 sec]


September 16, 2011

Are you a first-born? A middle child? A twin? An only child? In his new book The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us, author Jeffrey Kluger describes current scientific research into the effects of siblings on human behavior, from birth order studies to sibling rivalries and fighting.

A Tiny Apartment Transforms into 24 Rooms

獨立特派員214集{打開自閉--尋援}part1/2 & 2/2

自閉症是台灣近年來身心障礙人口中增加最快的族群，
一年成長11%，約一萬多人，
目前這樣的現象還沒能引起大家普遍的重視。
獨立特派員從2007年起持續追蹤一名自閉症兒童一登，曾經因為經常發生頭撞擊牆壁和桌椅發生許多次的意外，甚至有一年還住進了加護病房22天。他後來到日本，進入特教學­校和住宿機構，今年我們去探望他，看到了一登的笑容，還有，他會開口講話了。這是多麼讓人感動的一場跨海求醫記。






不少自閉症患者在醫療界對這種疾病不夠了解時，
可能會被當成精神病，讓病人和家庭蒙受更多不幸。

日本是一個很有社會福利精神的國家，他們每五十萬人就設立一個兒童相談所，協助家有身心障礙兒童的父母尋找醫療和照護資源。今年三十多歲的雕刻家上田，是一個自閉症患者，­當年也就是透過了這樣的機構重新找回彩色的人生。一登的父母看到他的作品，彷彿看到一登未來的希望。繼續跟我們一起來看這個讓人感動的故事。

獨立特派員214集{農地不休耕}

當全世界都在擔心鬧糧荒，
台灣卻有很多農田在休耕，甚至廢耕，
還有的轉了幾手變成建地蓋起豪宅！

目前稻米耕作面積只剩下 25萬公頃，不到以前的三分之一！

原因是，台灣人米吃得越來越少，只有以前的一半；還有，農業根本養不活一家人，年輕人不願意做，所以農村老化。政府現在感受到安全糧食存量的重要，正研究所謂「活化休耕」­，也鼓勵復耕，六龜就有一戶人家，都八十幾歲了，還是每天下田，他們也嘗試在檳榔樹下種稻，希望能做個實驗，讓很多改種檳榔的農民也跟進，目的在自給自足。一起來看，他們­堅持農地不休耕的故事。

Cracking a Hydrocarbon

Liquid paraffin (a mixture of alkanes of chain length C20 and greater) is vaporised and passed over a hot pumice stone catalyst. A gaseous product is obtained which is flammable and which will decolorise bromine water and acidified permanganate ions. The same apparatus and method can be used to dehydrate ethanol.

Cool Stuff Being Made: How Aluminum Cans Are Made

Find out the interesting way that cans are made!

Google Plus

Google has launched a social networking tool called Google Plus. It is aimed at dethroning the field's crowned king - Facebook.

Curiosity - Parallel Universes | Inflation

Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity

ABOUT THIS TALK

Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture -- call them the 6 killer apps -- that promote wealth, stability and innovation. And in this new century, he says, these apps are all shareable.

What we learned from 5 million books

Have you played with Google Labs' NGram Viewer?

It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.

Al Gore Forgets to Keep Top Secret Info in a Lockbox - SNL

Rypple - Work better, together

Rypple Intro from Rypple on Vimeo.

Facebook Story from Rypple on Vimeo.

Secure and Access Your Digital Life

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Watch, Stream and Enjoy Your Media on Demand

Effortless Photo and Video Sharing

Automatic Online Backup

Highly Secure Online Storage

“One-touch hacking:” how to protect your accounts while accessing public WiFi

A Double-Click on Safe Browsing

MediaWidget

“Harmonix's VidRhythm is Brilliantly Bizarre.”

porta l 和 portal 2

DC Shoes: Ken Block’s Hollywood Megamercial

Augmented Reality Tech Demos

3D Drawing in Augmented Reality from String on Vimeo.

Wrigleys 5 Gum - Augmented Reality Music Mixer from Boffswana on Vimeo.

Drum-Off ’07 - '09 Champion

The Music Animation Machine presents…

Lovely music / graphics, via Mark in the studio here at glue.

The Future of the Book

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Nelson, Coupland, and Alice are IDEO’s vision for the future of the books. Lovely.

Pixar’s Zoetrope

Lovely stuff from Pixar.

Music Apps for the iPad

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore iPad App Trailer from Moonbot Studios on Vimeo.

An ex-Pixar designer has created this beautiful childrens story for the iPad. Luscious.

IceStopmotion

Microsoft shows off Windows 8 Metro apps on video

MEET THE APP AND THE TEAM THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING.

When the founders of Terriblyclever Design LLC were students at Stanford University, they worked with the Associate Vice Provost of Student Affairs and Registrar, Tom Black, to create an application that would engage their campus community in a powerful new way—through their mobile devices.

They introduced their solution, iStanford, in a commercial that aired during the homecoming football game. By the end of the second half, there were already thousands of downloads. Just a few months later, iStanford had 40,000 downloads from the Apple® App Storesm, far more than the number of Stanford students. This rapid adoption demonstrated the impact iStanford had, not only on current students, but also on alumni, parents, sports fans, and the greater Stanford community.





GOING MOBILE UNLEASHES TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL.
SEE IT IN ACTION.

With 75% of the student body carrying smartphones, Northwestern University knew they needed a mobile presence. Once Blackboard helped them go mobile, their entire campus experience was transformed.




GOING MOBILE WAS THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION.
The Medical College of Georgia (MCG) wanted to deliver a highly-integrated, technology-infused curriculum that fit their students' learning styles. Since laptops were too big for their students to carry around in a clinical setting, they knew they needed a solid mobile strategy.

MCG turned to Blackboard Mobile to create a suite of customized medical apps built using the Blackboard Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK), including an OB Wheel and Medical Abbreviations Dictionary to enable learning anytime, anywhere. With information on the go, students are able to respond faster and more effectively. And since customizing is so easy with Blackboard Mobile, MCG can continue to evolve their app suite with new functionality and has even dedicated head count specifically to app development.





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Florida State was the first university in Florida to go mobile with Blackboard Mobile Central. Even before their official launch, FSU saw incredible interest in their app, FSU Mobile. Student response to the news flew through Facebook. The FSU Headlines TV issued a video showcasing the app. Excitement was so widespread among students and the community, FSU Mobile even made the evening news on local station, WCTV.

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Now with their mobile app, Northwestern Mobile, students and faculty have instant access to everything Northwestern. They use the app to find their way around campus, see what events are happening, locate books and resources, and so much more. With Blackboard Mobile, they're always connected, and always "on."

Below, students and administrators, including Harlan Wallach, Media Architect; Mort Rahimi, VP of IT; and Al Cubbage, VP of University Relations, show you just how much farther mobile has taken them.




EVEN THE IT GUYS TURN TO BLACKBOARD.
As a thought-leader in technology, Seton Hall spent more than two years trying to implement their own mobile solution before realizing that doing it on their own would limit their campus reach.

When Blackboard announced the availability of Blackboard Mobile Central, SHU jumped at the opportunity to work with the Blackboard Mobile team. The Blackboard Mobile Central native application suites for iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry and mobile web meant that Seton Hall could have the universal reach they were hoping for.

Today, Seton Hall's Blackboard Mobile Central app, SHUMobile, impacts the whole university community—students, faculty, staff, even alumni and parents. Now anyone with a smartphone can connect with the community, access resources, see what's going on, and experience Seton Hall in a new and engaging way.





Once Loyola Mobile went live in Fall 2010, Loyola University Chicago’s Marketing department created a splash for Loyola Mobile on the home page and the response was overwhelming; in the first semester the Loyola Mobile iPhone app was downloaded over 2,500 times, and averaged 70 to 80 downloads a week as they approached the end of the semester.

Now LUC is poised for the new release of Loyola Mobile, and it has some significant additions for users. For the first time, the Blackboard Mobile Learn app is incorporated into Blackboard Mobile Central for the iPhone and will sit on the springboard along with three other new apps. Mobile users no longer have to do two separate downloads, nor do they have to go to separate locations on their mobile device. Because Blackboard is so widely used at LUC, it is an especially nice convergence of the two applications.

In addition to Blackboard Mobile Learn, LUC also has three new icons on the springboard: Alumni, Emergency, and 8-Ride (users can call for a ride in and around campus). This increases to 12 the total number of applications for the iPhone. Loyola Mobile will be deployed on Android shortly. Because smart phone usage on campus is only going to continue to grow exponentially, Loyola University Chicago is very excited to be able to provide this expanded service, and to be on the leading edge of smart phone technology!

Preliminary Results of a Study of LectureTools and Laptop Use

University of Michigan CRLT Study of LectureTools and Laptop Use

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University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching




New Literacies for the 21st Century: Which Opportunities are Worth Seizing?

New Literacies for the 21st Century: Which Opportuntiies are Worth Seizing?

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So, how do we reach students when classes are overcrowded and students are at so many different levels? I believe technology is a tool that can help in this situation. Many have discussed new methodologies such as The Flipped Classroom where student's homework consists of viewing lectures at home so that the 'homework' becomes classwork where the teachers can facilitate a more hands-on model of instruction. Certain software companies have created Learning Management Systems that help to make this an easy transition.

I certainly do not believe that teachers are to blame. In fact, I believe teachers are the thread holding the system together. I do think that the system needs to change, though. Times have changed; however, much in our practice has not. In my opinion, teaching is evolving - and the field of education needs to catch up. Teachers are ready; they simply need the tools and the training to incorporate these new methods into their classrooms.

In closing, I pose a question: are we going to continue to prepare our students to become proficient at shading in bubbles, or are we going to prepare them to be able to use their resources, analyze information, think critically, and connect globally?

Kleiner-Backed Vlix Is An Instagram For Video; Adds Filters, Effects And More To Mobile Video

Follow-up: New Electric Car TEEWave AR1 Up And Close (Video)

Kids learn to make their own mobile apps at summer camp

Non-stick cookware coating stays on the pan, not in your food

Lit Motors unveils concept, all-electric, fully enclosed motorcycle

Innovative camping trailer transforms into a boat

Sealander - Schwimmcaravan - Grenzenlos mobil from SEALANDER - Der Schwimmcaravan on Vimeo.

MANU CHAO "Me Llaman Calle"

Me llaman calle
Pisando baldosa
La revoltosa y tan perdida
Me llaman calle
Calle de noche calle de dia
Me llaman calle
Hoy tan cansada
Hoy tan vacía
Como maquinita
Por la gran ciudad

Me llaman calle
Me subo a tu coche
Me llaman calle
De malegria
Calle dolida
Calle cansada
De tanto amar
Voy calle abajo
Voy calle arriba
No me rebajo
Ni por la vida
Me llaman calle
Y ese es mi orgullo
Yo se que un dia llegara

Yo se que un dia
Vendra mi suerte
Un dia me vendra a buscar
A la salida un hombre bueno
Pa to la vida y sin pagar
Mi corazon no es de alquilar

Me llaman calle
Me llaman calle
Calle sufrida
Calle tristeza
De tanto amar
Me llaman calle
Calle y mas calle

Me llaman calle
La sin futuro
Me llaman calle
La sinsalida
me llaman calle
Calle y mas calle
Las que mujeres
De la vida
Suben pa bajo
bajan pa arriba
Como maquinita
Por la gran ciudad

Me llaman calle
Me llaman calle
Calle sufrida
Calle tristeza
De tanto amar
Me llaman calle
Calle y mas calle

me llaman siempre
Y a calquier hora
me llaman guapa
Siempre a deshora
Me llaman puta
Tambien princesa
Me llaman calle
Y es mi noblessa
Me llaman calle
Calle sufrida
Calle perdida
De tanto amar

Me llaman calle
Me llaman calle
Calle sufrida
Calle tristeza
De tanto amar (x5)



They call me street
tile Walking
The unruly and so lost
They call me street
Street by night Street by day
They call me street
So tired today
So empty today
as little machine
For the big city

They call me street
I climb into your car
They call me street
In Malegria
street hurt
road weary
From time to love
I'm going down the street
I'm going up the street
I do not recess
Not for life
They call me street
And that is my pride
I know one day come

I know one day
My luck will come
One day I will come to look
A good man out
Pa to life without paying
My heart is not renting

Noir Désir - Le Vent Nous Portera

Black Desire - Wind In The Willows




Je n'ai pas peur de la route
Faudrait voir, faut qu'on y goûte
Des méandres au creux des reins
Et tout ira bien

Le vent l'emportera

Ton message à la grande ourse
Et la trajectoire de la course
A l'instantané de velours
Même s'il ne sert à rien

[Refrain] :
Le vent l'emportera
Tout disparaîtra
Le vent nous portera

La caresse et la mitraille
Cette plaie qui nous tiraille
Le palais des autres jours
D'hier et demain

Le vent les portera

Génétique en bandoulière
Des chromosomes dans l'atmosphère
Des taxis pour les galaxies
Et mon tapis volant dis?

[Refrain]

Ce parfum de nos années mortes

I'm not afraid of the road
Would see, we need to taste
Meanders in the small of the back
And all will be well

The wind will prevail

Your message to the Great Bear
And the trajectory of the race
A snapshot of velvet
Although it is useless

[Chorus]
The wind will prevail
all disappear
Wind In The Willows

Caress and scrap
This plague us feels tight
The palace of the other days
Yesterday and tomorrow

The wind will

Genetics shoulder
Chromosomes in the atmosphere
Taxis for the galaxies
And my flying carpet say?

[Chorus]

This perfume of our dead years

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Lecture 1A | MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation, 1986

Not about "computer"; not about "science", either.

How to .........................It's a method. It's a process.