James Throgmorton : Weblog items tagged with public

Ira Glass -Storytelling

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:13:41 GMT

Ira Glass talks about the art of storytelling and how important it is to find good stories.

Technology News: Consumer: Preinstalled Open Source: The Next OS Battleground?

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:58:05 GMT

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/56043.html More than 45,000 users over a three-day period agreed with a suggestion that Dell should "preinstall Linux" to cut the price of new PCs. A related suggestion that Dell offer new-computer buyers an option to have the open source suite OpenOffice preinstall

Web 2.0 - How we are growing the machine.

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:29:07 GMT

Solar powered Chariot

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:58:37 GMT

Japanese signage against littering.

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:45:19 GMT

http://www.jti.co.jp/sstyle/manners/ad/change/gallery/index0 Great use of graphic design. Japanese humor is just a little - different

Personal Technology -- Personal Technology from The Wall Street Journal.

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:41:54 GMT

Walt Mossberg on gmail

Gmail has re-defined email experience. Google has utilized cutting edge framework tools in order to create an application that changes the way that we communicate.

http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20050922.html

Rendezvous - Google Video

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:19:42 GMT

On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had ... all Â» a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris. The film

The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less - Google Video

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:39:58 GMT

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200&q=google+engedu

Choices confuse and confound and depress us. As agents of change, we must ensure that we understand the choices that we provide to those that depend on our choices.

This is a must see video. Anyone who works in the business of guiding people's decisions needs to hear what Barry Schwartz has to say.

Beyond copy-editing: the editor-writer relationship

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:19:05 GMT

http://www.jeanweber.com/about/beyond.htm

The tools to understand the relationship between the writer and the editor. This site defines the relationship between the writer and the editor very well. This describes what an editor should demand from a writer, and what a writer should demand from an editor.

In order to be a good editor or writer, we should understand the roles in depth.

Planning as Persuasive Storytelling in a Global-Scale Web of Relationships -- Throgmorton 2 (2): 125 -- Planning Theory

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:10:35 GMT

http://plt.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/2/125

This is another James Throgmorton. I should get to know more about the subject that he teaches. Planning as Persuasive Storytelling. What a powerful concept in a society that needs leadership as much as it needs to understand it's own time and place of it's humanity.