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Is Business Getting Girly? Don Draper Reports

As a rule I'm a 'never-before-noon' man. But one morning recently there it was, on top of the spread of magazines laid out for me on my desk. Cover story of The Atlantic Monthly, the magazine founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and some cronies over a few drinks at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in 1857. Four words. "The End Of Men." READ»

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Twenty Tweets #6

From the third tweet onwards, the tweets are a replay of what I was saying in my meatspace diary exactly one year ago, interesting to see it as a retrospective, but really finding a way to retain continuity in tweeting as work and ...READ»

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Twenty Tweets #5

My initial tweet sunami will probably slow down as I reached 100 tweets - and what I enjoy most about these tweets (created in the embryo of the twitter platform and exported here to the blog) is that really helps my habits of being ...READ»

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Can a Building Make You Happy?

A new book examines architecture's influence on your soul.READ»

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Required Reading for Interactive Designers

The storied School of Visual Arts, in New York, just published a list of required reading for the incoming class of students in its MFA interaction-design program. Here's a chance to get SVA MFA education for $58,000 off (not ...READ»

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Retail Therapy

Take a trip to the small town of Rheinberg in Germany. It's home to a 4,000-square-meter supermarket created by Metro, the world's fifth largest retailer. If you believe the hype, you are looking at the future of supermarket ...READ»

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Fast Forward: Innovation Station

10 great ideas, tools, and thinkersREAD»