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NYTimes: The Prize Economy and Philanthropy started by Philippe Bradley
There’s an interesting introductory article (albeit a little light on substance) in the NYTimes today on these multimillion dollar prizes that seem to be proliferating these days, incentivising philanthropic (usually tech-focused) progress. Recent examples include the Ansari X
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India - a summary started by Philippe Bradley
Time spent in India: 31 days
Summary itinerary: Delhi - Rishikesh - Missourri - Agra (Taj Mahal) - Jaipur - Pushkar - Udaipur - Goa (Palolem Beach) - Hampi - Goa - Mumbai (Bombay)
Delhi: we stayed in the crawling, winding, buzzing streets of central Delhi. Came to grips wit
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Microphilanthropy is to traditional charity what dual core processors are to single-core processors started by Philippe Bradley
An interesting comment popped up after my “manifesto for microphilanthropy” post. In it, it was suggested that micropayment was important for microphilanthropy. I disagree, and here’s why (this is a reblog of my reply:)

Pure commoditisation
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Matt Mason, The Pirate’s Dilemma started by Philippe Bradley
In the video above, Matt Mason explains the value of piracy to a bunch of trad media suits. He credits pirate radio as a crucible for new music trends and as breaking grounds for new music DJs - an important counterpoint to commercial radio stations like Kiss 100 and Capital FM (in London).
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Arsenal FC transfer budget to be cut ‘because of property market slowdown’ started by Philippe Bradley
I write this a few minutes after the end of Arsenal’s last home match of the 07-08 season, as they do a lap of the ground to thank we who have supported through a season that showed incredible promise to the surprise of all, but fell at the final hurdle after a string of unfortunate
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India on the road started by Philippe Bradley
Before we left, despite common warnings of dodgy road behaviour I still wouldn’t have expected that three weeks into our trip Indian driving would still shock, amaze, irritate and draw expletives from us - that it still does so ought to impress on you just how shite, mad and tota
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How feasibly can we actually drop our global CO2 production? started by Philippe Bradley
I hate talking about global warming - its boring, cliche, and largely depressing, because any careful thinking about it invariably leads to the conclusion that the only true solution, if climate change models based on CO2 are correct, is a mass human extinction event, or exodus (to oth
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Manifesto for Microphilanthropy started by Philippe Bradley
We will see a move from charities and foundations as monolithic armies to an entirely new model for charitable institutions, much more like a telephone exchange of old - there to connect you to the ground level, to the cause you care passionately about. The Internet will bring enough ‘%
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Paradoxical lifestyles started by Philippe Bradley
Just came across an interesting behavioural economics paper by Stutzer & Frey. Behavioural science is an extremely ‘hot’ field of academia at the moment, hitting the mainstream with books such as Freakonomics (Dubner & Levitt), Predictably Irrational %
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A lesson learnt started by Philippe Bradley
I’ve finally had to face up to the question of what path to take in life. Nobody said deciding on a path through life was easy, and I never expected it to be - but how you manage the human relationships on which your decision process depends can dramatically affect the outcome. This is
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Urban artists think big started by Philippe Bradley
There’s been a spate of big works hitting urban walls recently. Here’s a quick roundup:

Conor Harrington - Shoreditch:
Fauxreel (Dan Bergeron) - Toronto
Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada - IDENTITY/Madrid
and last but certainly not least - JR (the guy wh
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Genes to Memes to Temes (techno-memes) started by Philippe Bradley
This is a long post but if you can find the time, please read it to the bottom. It’s perhaps the best I’ve written in this blog’s short lifespan.

This is a nervous, poorly presented talk outlining a hugely important theory about where the future
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Last.fm taking major step towards becoming great big clever iTunes in the sky started by Philippe Bradley
I just spent 10mins fiddling with the beta-test of the new Last.fm (you’ll need to be a subscriber to Last.fm to have a play - if you aren’t, come back later, I’ll update this post with some screenshots later today).

I have to say, though t
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WTF-of-the-day: Friday 30th May ‘08 started by Philippe Bradley
A US cleantech company called Blacklight Power has raised $60m for a new, very clean form of electricity production. Nothing astounding there, really - cleantech is very much du jour. What’s “WTFotd”-worthy about this story is that the technology they claim
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Your food has… software?! started by Philippe Bradley
Thought for the day: the genome of a cell is its software. “Mad” scientists like CJ. Venter are already finding out how to ‘install linux’ on bacterial ‘hardware’ by swapping out its own chromosome with that of another bacteri
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Energy started by Philippe Bradley
(just did some reading on means for capturing sunlight and how efficient they are; it challenged some of my preconceptions of where the solution might lie, so I though I’d share it with you guys too. I omit energy sources that are many thermodynamic steps removed from incident sola
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Revision started by Philippe Bradley
Currently printing out my note output (I’m experimenting with mindmaps generated with Freemind) from the past few weeks for exams in a fortnight. Started with a relatively simple one to make puzzle-fitting easier, and sort out margins etc. The human cancer ones are gonna be a night
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Godwin’s Law? started by Philippe Bradley
Godwin’s Law states: “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

It’s often mixed in with Reductio ad Hitlerum: Invoking Hitler automatically makes you lose the ar
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I may be studying biochemistry… started by Philippe Bradley
…but this is definitely NOT what labs are like (via Behance)
(Also, I graduate 2 weeks from now - and will hopefully never have to pipet anything ever again)
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Google Friend Connect - part 2: The largest Social Network ever built started by Philippe Bradley
Having originally assumed that the reason Facebook, Hi5 and LinkedIn (FHL), amongst others, were involved in the Google Friend Connect (GFC) service, I initially wanted to write this post to argue that this was the biggest strategic mistake of their lives. Turns out, Google is inv
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Absolutely astonishing started by Philippe Bradley
Wall animation from Italian artist Blu
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The Fred Wilson effect (a.k.a: social networking dividend of an open, public conversation) started by Philippe Bradley
Last week made my head spin. As I continue with my biochemistry degree, I spectate the new media sphere as it twists and turns; I occasionally pass comment on it, either on this blog, on twitter, or in some other forum, for example, the comments sections of other sites. I happened to l
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The semantic elephant in the room - Google will settle the "top down vs. bottom up" debate for us started by Philippe Bradley
The fundamental principle of semantifying data is that information becomes more easily found and understood by computers. Mix that with AI and you’ve got some very, very powerful, useful tools for information gathering, processing and decision making!
So why is Google - the inf
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Conversation platforms will make blogs increasingly redundant started by Philippe Bradley
There are many reasons why people blog. Some, like mine, are experiments in self-expression and a historical log of experiences, opinions and discoveries of personal interest. They’re (primarily text-based) pedestals for the development of a digital ‘sculpture’ of y
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Context is king started by Philippe Bradley
In the ‘Tuymans Experiment’, Luc Tuymans (widely hailed as one of the most important artists in the world - e.g. the Tate Modern’s description here, and the curators describing him in the first minute of the video above) decided to radically shift the c
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