KR Blog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
That much beloved ancient Persian poet Jalalu’l-din Rumi tells us: This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! (You make it sound so easy, Rumi.) Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still [...]
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
LAWRENCE - A Lynn teenager who shot another man in the head during a gunfight has been sentenced to life in prison. Walter Clare was convicted Thursday in Lawrence Superior...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A Lynn teenager who shot another man in the head during a gunfight has been sentenced to life in prison.
Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
by JONATHAN HARRIS , Managing Editor America is home to 1.3 million homeless children. In fact, children make up the fastest growing segment of the homeless population, many of them looking to escape from an abusive or dysfunctional home. The numbers are fairly staggering, and in a country where there's an overwhelming emphasis on one's bootstraps, there can be a tendency to ignore this problem, to...
JoshSpear.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Over the years I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know and becoming friends with Jonathan Harris through all sorts of different avenues, projects he has done, and more recently the times we’ve found ourselves in the desert in Jordan together. He’s truly one of the most thoughtful, inspiring, and talented folks I know. [...]
AdPulp (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Ed Cotton likes the contrary thinking found in Jonathan Harris' new piece, "World Building in a Crazy World" . I do too. Very much. Here's what Cotton says about the work: Harris seems to be taking a giant knife to the current internet landscape and stabbing a hole in its heart; slamming the 140 character world of Tweeter, the superficiality of Facebook, the pervasive adherence to minimalism...
gtmcknight.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Jonathan Harris: World Building in a Crazy World : Best article I’ve read this week. (via Anthony)
Influx Insights (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
World Building in a Crazy World is a presentation by digital artist Jonathan Harris , that's been catching fire in the past couple of days. It's a great reminder that it's often smartest to take the opposite point of view and to value people's intelligence and ability to engage in things with a deeper meaning. Harris seems to be taking a giant knife to the current internet landscape and stabbing a...
Tickle Me Reegan (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I've been mulling over ideas lately, how to bring them to life and how to tease them from groups of people and I recently stumbled upon some writing by Jonathan Harris (co-creator of WeFeelFine ) entitled World Building in a Crazy World . It is comprised of 15 short vignette's centered around his thoughts on where we are, digitally speaking as a society and how best to move forward. A few things jumped...
stone (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
We've had artist Jonathan Harris come and speak at TheLadders -- he is amazing and the way he utilizes Internet technology and social media to create art makes one feel that we are still at the start of something very big. Maybe even that we are before the start, like early 15th century Florence. (I've cried watching We Feel Fine "performed" in public.") He just released World Building...
Trendsspotting (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
In a beautiful thought-provoking project of Jonathan Harris (creator of We Feel Fine – one of the first social web emotion visualization projects), Harris shares some touching personal insights with artistic inspirations relevant to a digital world. In this “World Building in a Crazy World” – Harris suggests 1-2-3 principals for a world building idea [...]
PicoCool (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
In his latest project, Harris explores the current state of the digital world in 15 short vignettes, wrapped in a vision for our shared future. 2 Vote(s)
ZenGuide (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
I usually focus on blogging for business so it’s nice to be reminded that most of the 170 million blogs out there are by ordinary people writing about their daily lives and personal feelings. It was the We Feel Fine project that was the big reminder - it’s a project led by computer scientist, Jonathan [...]
Fusion View (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
There’s been a lot of focus on blogging for business recently on this blog, largely due to the research I’ve been doing in the last couple of years for my business book, International Communications Strategy, so it’s nice to be reminded that most of the 170 million blogs out there are by ordinary people writing [...]
Journey for Jensen (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
On December 1st We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion , will be released. They finalized the date for the launch party. It will be on December 5th, in New York City. I can't remember if I blogged about this before or not, but here is what Amazon.com describes the book as: "Product Description In this dazzling exploration of contemporary human feelings, digital whiz kids Sep Kamvar and Jonathan...
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