Muse Cubed

So long, and thanks for all the Phish

dewprocess — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:03:57 +0000

Dear reader;

For the past 11 years, I have maintained a personal blog, sometimes migrating from one blogging service to another, but never interrupting my random stream of virtual consciousness. e.e.cummings would have been proud!

However, as platforms, services, and tools aggregate, so must the user evolve. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter were not around in 1999, when I started posting my thoughts and ruminations on LiveJournal. Simply put, things have changed.

Does this mean I am no longer blogging? Not on your life! I have had a “professional” blog up and running since January of this year, called IP. Check it out here.

IP is most commonly used as the acronym for “Intellectual Property“, although it has also come to refer to “Internet Protocol” (the computer networking protocol used on the Internet). This blog was launched as a web journal for all things relating to business building, social and new media evolutions, Interesting Products and Interesting People who are influencing the next generation of business and social growth in today’s and tomorrow’s world. The content of the IP blog is intended to lend a more personal aspect to the dynamic changes and evolutions being experienced by so many of today’s businesses, markets, industries, and communities. Leaders from all walks of life, all sectors of industry, all business arenas have been contributing to the articles. I’m thrilled by their collaboration and hope that their insights and musings will serve to influence and enlighten you, as we move in to the second decade of the Millennium.

I started the IP blog because I hope that it might help visitors and subscribers rethink the nature and role of business in society. My fellow writers and I believe that the way businesses are built (or rebuilt) over the next 5 years will impact the character of our world more deeply than perhaps ever before.

Current contributors include:

Nicholas de Wolff
Jonathan Handel
Roberth H. Heath
Charles Leadbeater
Jeremy McGuire
David E. Virag
Elyssa Pallai
Lou Kerner
Mia Dand
Tim Gibbons

If you have a story that you would like to see published on the IP blog, whether it is your own story or one you would like to have told about someone else, please don’t hesitate to email us at info[at]nicholasdewolff[dot]com.

In the meantime, you can find some of my more individual discoveries and ruminations posted on my Facebook Page.

Thank you for being a part of the journey thus far, and I hope you will come along for the rest of the ride!

There’s a Great Festival a-coming!

dewprocess — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:52:00 +0000

Study Break!

dewprocess — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:26:47 +0000

Medical Mathematics

dewprocess — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:21:23 +0000

Click here to see how health care reform will impact you financially.

(thanks to Evan K. for the link)

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

dewprocess — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:15:40 +0000

Strangely interesting…:

Poetry In Motion

dewprocess — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:03:18 +0000

With thanks to Roger Ebert for directing me to this great resource, I found a lovely “low-tech” use of YouTube today, that I wanted to share with you.

Over 500 classic poems, each read aloud by the same man, as a simple slideshow presents the poet’s headshot, followed by the text of the poem, and concluding with a subtly evocative image relating to the poem just read:

Click here to visit the Spoken Verse Channel on YouTube

I’m afraid I am finding the channel somewhat addictive…rediscovering old favorites, and unearthing new delights.

Freak Weather In Australia

dewprocess — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:46:31 +0000

It’s still supposed to be late summer in Oz, yet look at this!…and still there are those that deny Climate Change…:

(thanks to Julie and Ken for link)

Reform Advocates rally in DC

dewprocess — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:09:24 +0000

Today in DC, thousands marched and rallied in support of Health Care/Insurance reform.

Starting from a rally in Dupont Circle with words from Howard Dean, to a “citizens’ posse” down at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel where the insurance companies were having their private conference, the direct action sent a forceful message.

See what happened:

Now, will this ultimately have ANY effect? On its own, I doubt it. However, if the groundswell continues, and the energy remains, who knows?

Health Care Protesters Face Off Against Insurance Lobbyists (huffingtonpost.com)
Health-Care Overhaul Advocates Rally (blogs.wsj.com)
Health care activists protest in downtown DC (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

Representin’!

dewprocess — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:35:44 +0000

I Can See It In The Air…

dewprocess — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:02:06 +0000

California’s dirty air caused more than $193 million in hospital-based medical care from 2005 to 2007 as people sought help for problems such as asthma and pneumonia triggered by elevated pollution levels, according to a new study. While much work has been done previously to catalog the economic impact of air pollution across California, the study is the first to quantify the cost of hospital-based medical care caused by the dirty air.

More info here:
http://www.rand.org/news/press/2010/03/02/

Full report here:
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2010/RAND_TR777.pdf