When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
— Peter Marshall
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What is the Internet hiding from you?

More than you might think. In this short but sweet presentation at TED, Eli Pariser reveals that the major search engines, content aggregators and portals are filtering what you see on an unprecedented level.

Pariser argues very effectively that we're passing the torch from human editors to computer algorithms that end up providing not what we should see, but what we want to see.

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Design as Business Ideology

Tim Brown, President and CEO of Ideo, is quoted as saying this in a recent Fast Company article:

"Teams in business will be thinking about problems as design problems and tackling them like designers. Good design is the output of good design thinking, and companies will be looking to apply design thinking in many places where it hasn't been applied before. These are the methods and approaches that designers use to solve problems, such as understanding and anticipating user needs, prototyping to evolve ideas, and using storytelling to bring ideas to life....
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Almost thirty years in the making, the river Beautiful will be published as a premium hardcover, a value softcover, and a very special online multimedia experience.

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