Nico_Macdonald
HuffPost.com took my advice to @commentisfree: on their own blogs people are more considered. Now enables co-posting comments to WP/Twitter.
| Nico_Macdonald My response to George Obsourne's embrace of 'nudge' behaviour-focused politics is lead letter in today's Guardian http://tinyurl.com/5jtwk9 |
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| Nico_Macdonald @Casablanca Even at a selfish level, a zero child policy would lead to a diminished workforce to support you in retirement. Not much fun. |
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| Nico_Macdonald @Casablanca On The World Without Us, 7Bn humans say our impact has been largely +ve! I guess the authors want to see a zero child policy ;-) |
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| Nico_Macdonald Attending RSA Thursday lunch talk on Nudge by Richard Thaler. Set your status if you are attending. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/e... |
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| Nico_Macdonald Enjoyed Fifty Years before the Masthead, Anthony Howard's reflections on his career journalism http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplaye... |
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| Nico_Macdonald @davidwilcox I agree. It is perhaps a parallel to New Labour seeing every problem being soluble with new legislation. |
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| Nico_Macdonald @johnniemoore Berners-Lee said the Web is about connections between people. So should ask: can we expect this much of humanity? #futureofweb |
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| Nico_Macdonald @johnniemoore At NESTA last week Tim Berners-Lee didn't consider a related point I made about the Web to be a straw man. He chose to answer. |
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| Nico_Macdonald Shirky talk [not present]: why when we discover a new phenomenon are we so desperate for it to solve all problems? Man w/hammer sees nails. |
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| Nico_Macdonald May still be places for Clay Shirky talk at Demos today. Going? http://upcoming.yahoo.com/e... I may be. Check w/Demos/site first. |
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| Nico_Macdonald @ribotminimus Woudhuysen noted China is innovator as well as consumer, working on cloud seeding/etc, ie: leading innovation #battleforchina |
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| Nico_Macdonald Battle for China: James Woudhuysen: China may end up giving a lead to the West in a way the West doesn't yet suspect #battleforchina |
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| Nico_Macdonald Battle for China: Minky Worden: It is _respectful_ to hold countries to human rights standards to which they have agreed #battleforchina |
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| Nico_Macdonald Battle for China: Brendan O'Neill: The West has no moral authority to lecture anybody, including China, about human rights #battleforchina |
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| Nico_Macdonald Battle for China: Frank Furedi: West needs a more future oriented philosophy... or won't be able engage properly with China #battleforchina |
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| Nico_Macdonald Battle for China:: Professor Hugo de Burgh: China flings down a challenge to us: know _yourself_! #battleforchina |
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| Nico_Macdonald At the Institute of Ideas conference The Battle for China. Turning out to be very stimulating. http://tinyurl.com/6gtbum #battleforchina |
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| Nico_Macdonald You and Yours, 12 pm, #radio 4 features Bill Thompson on DNS, Julian Baggini and an item on the future of publishing http://tinyurl.com/q5vu |
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| Nico_Macdonald Experimenting w/ beta of updated Plazes. Even better, tho' MacOS client needs update. Now Berliners, meet the Nokians. http://cb.plazes.com/ |
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