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for November, 2000
November 1, 2000
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
"Wild Geese"
for November 2, 2000
"Collaboration is the process of shared creation: two or more individuals
with complementary skills interacting to create a shared understanding
that none had previously possessed or could have come to on their own.
Collaboration creates a shared meaning about a process, a product, or
an event. . . . Something is there that wasnī there before."
Michael Schrage
No More Teams!
November 3, 2000
"It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space
between the bars that holds the tiger."
Noah benShea
Jacob the Baker
November 6, 2000
"Go vote. Itīs good for the country and good for you. Makes you feel big
and strong."
Bob Schieffer
CBS News
November 5, 2000
November 7, 2000
"Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms
that have been tried from time to time."
Sir Winston Churchill, 1947
November 8, 2000
"The American people have now spoken, but itīs going to take a little
while to determine exactly what they said."
President Bill Clinton
November 9, 2000
50.7 percent of the 205.8 million voting-age Americans cast ballots in
Tuesdayīs Presidential election, placing the United States 139th in voter
turnout among the worldīs 163 democracies.
Curtis Gans, Director
Committee for the Study of the American Electorate
November 10, 2000
"There are bigger things in a democracy than winning elections because
there are bigger values at stake than elections alone. A democracy is
an agreement by a group of people that we can be self-governing, that
we can reason together, that there is the possibility of actual consensus,
and I would like to see leadership taking us in that direction."
Professor Stephen Carter
Yale Law School
November 13, 2000
"We have a dysfunctional relationship with technology -- a technologically
intoxicated zone -- but we canīt see it because weīre inside it."
John Naisbitt
Knowledge Management Magazine
March 2000
November 14, 2000
"Thereīs no such thing as a make-or-break decision, no single moment that
will, in itself, alter your entire life. Rather, change happens through
a series of decisions and experiences. If one experience doesnīt work
out, you learn from it and you try another tack."
Molly Higgins
Fast Company
July 2000
November 15, 2000
"Can companies make it fun, interesting, challenging, and rewarding for
people who are not their employees to contribute their time and ideas?
Companies that successfully attract outside brainpower will absolutely
eat the lunch of companies that donīt."
Eric S. Raymond,
"open source evangelist"
Fast Company
November 2000
November 16, 2000
"If the leader is supposed to have the vision, then leadership is simply
a sales problem, a problem in inspiring and marketing. What makes leadership
so interesting, in part, is the identification of the underlying values
that can mobilize people."
Ron Heifetz
"Ideas in the News"
October 16, 2000
November 17, 2000
"The job interview has become one of the central conventions of modern
economy. But what, exactly, can you know about a stranger after sitting
down and talking with him for an hour?"
Malcolm Gladwell
"The New-Boy Network"
The New Yorker, 5/29/00
for November 20, 2000
"Creating metaphors in poetry is similar to the healing process in that
it involves an imaginative translocation from one state to another. The
poem, in its rhythms and rhymes, metaphorically restores the suffererīs
control over deranged bodily functions."
Rafael Campo, MD
Salon.com, 12/8/99
November 21, 2000
"Hypertext erases distance. Everything on the Web is either here or connected
to here. You donīt know where it was before you looked at it. You donīt
know where it goes when itīs gone. Space is blown to smithereens. The
resulting ability to leap from any point to any other point has rightly
been compared to the way the mind works."
Scott McCloud
NewMedia.com
8/28/00
November 22, 2000
Wishing you and yours a happy Thanksgiving weekend.
Please remember the homeless and hungry during this holiday season. You
might like to start by visiting The Hunger Site to make a free donation of food in exchange
for viewing a sponsorīs ad.
You do not need to register or provide personal information in order to
donate, and you can make a new donation once every day.
November 27, 2000
"Sometimes we need to ignore our e-mail. Believe me, if God is going to
reveal when the last day of creation is, itīs not going to come via e-mail.
So go ahead and ignore that blinking icon."
Tonya Vinas
Industry Week,10/31/2000
November 28, 2000
"Of the estimated $5.67 billion public schools spent on technology in
the 1999-2000 school year, just 17 percent went to teacher training. .
. . 63 percent was allocated toward computer hardware and 20 percent was
spent on new software and upgrades."
The New York Times, 11/22/00
November 29, 2000
"Cultural infidelity, the magnetic merging of polar opposites --
north/south, east/west, traditional/alternative, highbrow/lowbrow -- is
breach-birthing a nation of cultural hybrids. The Great American Melting
Pot is empty. It bubbled over in the 1990s with the greatest immigration
since the storming of Ellis Island. But unlike the foreigners of yesteryear,
new citizens in the twenty-first century will be valued for, instead of
stripped of, their unique cultural identities."
The Future Ainīt What It Used to Be
Iconoculture, 1997
November 30, 2000
A few facts about "health seekers," Americans who use the Internet to
find health or medical information, from a new Pew Internet Project report:
- 52 million adults, more than half of those with Internet access, are
health seekers.
- 48% of health seekers say they take better care of themselves as a result
of advice found on the Internet.
- 47% say that online health information influences their personal decisions
about treatment and care.
- Health seekers like the Internet because it is always available, provides
a wealth of information, and allows them to locate information anonymously.
- Women are more likely than men to be health seekers.
- Men are more likely than women to follow up with a medical professional
about information they have gathered online.
The Online Health Care Revolution
Pew Research Center
11/26/2000
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