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Mission/Vision of the World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee who was the inventor of the “World Wide Web” in 1990. W3C’s mission is to develop protocols and guidelines to enable long-term growth of the web. Ultimately, their vision and hope is that the web can enable a more peaceful and prosperous future for all [...]
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Favorite, Applicable Charles & Ray Eames Quotes:
These four quotes are for your arts organizations and their programs, enterprises: “To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.” “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish [...]
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“The declaration of interdependence for modern management”
We’re going to start work again on the New Play Map project in a little over a month from now. I was looking through Wikipedia’s page on Agile Software Development, reviewing this particular development methodology we’ve been using with the developers Quilted and getting reminded of some of its characteristics that I love and that help generate [...]
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Transitioning and Modeling, a bit of Chaos and Denial
If there’s any need for urgency in order to stop doing ‘business-as-usual’ right NOW and to make and promote a culture of rapid innovation and creativity that permeates everything we do as a field, it should be the mainstream news in the past few years about life after cheap access to fossil fuel. Here’s an [...]
The Obligation to Innovate and the Power of Denial
An extraordinary public statement that I heard in the past year was from Meiyin Wang during a convening of new works in Arena Stage’s new building in Washington, DC: In the future—this will all be under water. Old definitions will be drowned out—new and buoyant ones will float. … Theater will need to become about less waste. [...]
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A Beginning
This is a blog and an idea studio for me to track and reflect on new ideas and changes in our cultures and behaviors brought on by 21st century technological and cultural innovations and by 21st century environmental, economic, and social upheaval. I’m calling this space an ‘idea studio’ because I’m interested in generating and [...]
Video: Rube Goldberg Machine Contest in Japan