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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Trends for the church in 2015
The social transformation work seen during recent trip to the Philippines could be an example for American churches to engage their communities. Thom Rainer began a blog series about trends in 2015 for churches. Rainer (2015) suggested one of the trends would be...
Megacommunity thinking
A great pastor, Lowell Bakke, explained Paul's letter to the Philippians as a treatise on partnership, which made me think about the concept of megacommunities. A megacommunity consists of organizations from the business, government, and civil sectors joining forces...
Making the blind see
Via The Atlantic: There hasn't been much that science has been able to do to help those who suffer from RP. While those afflicted with deafness might be able to turn to devices like cochlear implants to improve their hearing, those who suffer from retinal degeneration...
Why Bureaucratic Managers Are Essential
Via Business Insider: Most of us, write Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan in their new book The Org: The Underlying Logic Of The Office, "imagine a world without managers as a kind of paradise where workers are unshackled by pointless bureaucracy… a place where stuff...
Why Bureaucratic Managers Are Essential
Via Business Insider: Most of us, write Ray Fisman and Tim Sullivan in their new book The Org: The Underlying Logic Of The Office, "imagine a world without managers as a kind of paradise where workers are unshackled by pointless bureaucracy… a place where stuff...
Casino panopticon: a look at the CCTV room in the Vegas Aria
Via Boing Boing: The valuable trend in surveillance, Whiting says, is toward this data-driven analysis (even when much of the job still involves old-fashioned gumshoe work). "It's the data," he says, "And cameras now are data. So it's all data. It's just learning to...
Casino panopticon: a look at the CCTV room in the Vegas Aria
Via Boing Boing: The valuable trend in surveillance, Whiting says, is toward this data-driven analysis (even when much of the job still involves old-fashioned gumshoe work). "It's the data," he says, "And cameras now are data. So it's all data. It's just learning to...
Game to destroy CCTV cameras: vandalism or valid protest?
Via Boing Boing and Guardian: This is Camover, a new game being played across Berlin, which sees participants trashing cameras in protest against the rise in close-circuit television across Germany. The game is real-life Grand Theft Auto for those tired of being...