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When to use a pdf.

PDFs should be used and only used when the following apply:

IF

1. The document will be printed.
For example the document will be used for several people to sign at a meeting or this document is created to go into a paper system.

OR

2. The document is likely to be saved for reference on a computer.
For example, in addition to being accessed on the web or by email and the user will be likely to store the document. A signed contract.

AND

3. The document’s integrity is important.
For example that it has been designed for its look and feel and this needs to be consistent throughout its use. Or if it is important the document can’t easily be changed. A Journal article.

NEVER
Use a pdf on other occasions.

Forms are better in a Word file so people can edit them and return them or the form can be online in html. Information that is primarily on the web should be in html. In cases where use is mixed provide both a pdf and other formats. For ebooks consider providing epub, mobi, Kindle, Nook or plain text versions.

Later Consider Apple Author versions

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Testing ZenPhotoPress plugin update

Walk in the bush

That worked pretty well, it is almost as easy to do manually, and then I get my own border.

The gallery option may be useful:

[zenphotopress album=69 sort=random number=8]

It is also nice to have the sidedbar working. ~ OK, so that is it done, flickr is “depricated”. will write up more reflections on the point of all this soon.

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Purpose

The item from the Guardian on clicktivism I linked to in the last post has a  potent prediction in its conclusion.  I like the sentiment.  It is not enough though.  Jettisoning the methods of marketing is fine, but what then?  How to truly embrace the power of the net & social networks in an emerging world, how that can be done in a radical revolutionary way is not yet evident.  Do Wikipedia,  Linux, Facebook have something that can be harnessed for a greater purpose?  How?

Clicktivism is ruining leftist activism | Micah White | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:

In place of measurements and focus groups will be a return to the very thing that marketers most fear: the passionate, ideological and total critique of consumer society. Resuscitating the emancipatory project the left was once known for, these activists will attack the deadening commercialisation of life. And, uniting a global population against the megacorporations who unduly influence our democracies, they will jettison the consumerist ideology of marketing that has for too long constrained the possibility of social revolution.

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Zeitgeist

I just watched the movie Zeitgeist: Addenda Here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912#

I got to it because I saw in Google news that the movie is showing in Christchurch tonight. What I like about the movie is that it shows the end is night. It shows the nature of the problem, essentially the crumbling of the US empire.

It does it quite well! It shows the power of the IMF and World bank, the corporations, and shows really well how the US conducts its empire. It is holistic in many ways, drawing on people from a lot of fields for their opinion.

Critique and and a link follow, and a pdf:

Continue reading “Zeitgeist”

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Leadership

I listened to this podcast today about Steve Jobs 7 principles of innovation on technometria.

Here

And also to In out Time, as it happens, from the BBC

a podcast on Thomas Edison  (he is Jobs in another life) 

Now I see this (below) from emyth: and see the same message there loud and strong.  On the one hand  it is it is inspiring and enjoyable.  I have enjoyed the unexpected feast of this diet today, and it has been stimulating.  But, I always have a but, I don’t trust any of it. The will is not that powerful. We are not that autonomous, we could not just decide to follow some steps.  It is bigger.

No action, invisible leadership. What is leadership & innovation anyway? Hmmm maybe it is the American flavour of all this that puts me of. What God governs this ethos?

And it is politically unsound as well, the myth that everyone can do this.

The e-myth material follows.

Continue reading “Leadership”

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What’s happening?

And Stephen J Gould says the same thing.  Why is this on my mind?  Thinking about “Listening to the Spirit of the Times”.  A sociodrama workshop I’ll be conducting at the ANZPA conference in  Sydney. Evolution comes into it, so does the technium (see Kevin Kelly), so does Moreno and his perspectives on creativity, and Marx on class… and lots more.  If we integrated all this theory would it be a theory?   How do we make sense of the times we are in?

Evolution is a Fact and a Theory:

Well evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world’s data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don’t go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein’s theory of gravitation replaced Newton’s in this century, but apples didn’t suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape-like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin’s proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered.

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Theory is higher than law

This is a useful little notion.

Evolution is Not Just a Theory: home:

Some people think that in science, you have a theory, and once it’s proven, it becomes a law. That’s not how it works. In science, we collect facts, or observations, we use laws to describe them, and a theory to explain them. You don’t promote a theory to a law by proving it. A theory never becomes a law. This bears repeating. A theory never becomes a law.

In fact, if there was a hierarchy of science, theories would be higher than laws. There is nothing higher, or better, than a theory. Laws describe things, theories explain them.

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