Marina Gorbis: crowdsourcing abundance

(CC image: "Distributing surplus commodities, Johns, Ariz.," 1940, Library of Congress) Former BB guestblogger Marina Gorbis, exec director of Institute for the Future, considers how small groups/organizations can achieve scale and do good by sharing resources. Essentially every person (and every company) has a surplus of something that other people want/need: Not everyone has a large house to trade or a large sum of money to donate but look around you -- we have excess of stuff, talent, ideas, ...

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/08/marina-gorbis-crowds.html

Marina Gorbis; crowdsourcing abundance

(CC image: "Distributing surplus commodities, Johns, Ariz.," 1940, Library of Congress) Former BB guestblogger Marina Gorbis, exec director of Institute for the Future, considers how small groups/organizations can achieve scale and do good by sharing resources. Essentially every person (and every company) has a surplus of something that other people want/need: Not everyone has a large house to trade or a large sum of money to donate but look around you -- we have excess of stuff, talent, ideas, ...

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/08/marina-gorbis-crowds.html

Indian Navy can learn from Malaysian Navy on having women officers onboard

Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar Islands): Still not ready to have women officers on board, the Indian Navy can take a hint from the Royal Malaysian Navy which has Lieutenant Farah-al-Habshi onboard a warship here for Exercise Milan, a multinational exercise witnessing the participation of 13 navies of the Asia-Pacific region. The Indian Navy inducts women officers only in the education, logistics, law and air traffic control branches. Hailing from an Islamic nation, a love for the seas inspired ...

http://news.indiaid.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/7/4450068.html

This week in search 2/5/10

This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs weekly. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed.In addition to language improvements this week, we released several other new features:Haitian Creole translationWe've now added Haitian Creole (krey?l ayisyen) translation to Google Translate, so that you can translate between Creole and 51 other languages, and also hear spoken versions of Creole translations. While this translation sy...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-week-in-search-2510.html

Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: The New Economics of Marriage [Altarcations]

Gawker Weddings Expert Phyllis Nefler has #GoneSkiing again, leaving me at the Altar(cations) with the NYT's Weddings Celebrations in my hand. Thankfully, our J-School Embed and onetime weekend editor Hunter Walker did me a solid. Hunter, be fearless. I think I might be one of the first guys to try their hand at writing this column. [Ed. Technically true. But back in the day when Leon Neyfakh and Jon Liu did weekends, they posted Ad-Hoc Altarcations, which pitted them against the New York Post's...

http://gawker.com/5466143/scoring-sundays-nuptials-the-new-economics-of-marriage