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Memento: February 2011

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Virtual keepsakes worth remembering. 10 reasons why I didn't create Facebook. Thursday, February 03, 2011. The Social Network movie. Tells a striking story: how a 19-year old student wrote some software, founded a company, and changed the world. But why was it that Mark Zuckerberg was the one to create it, and not you or me? So why didn't you, or I, with all our educational advantages and years of professional experience create Facebook? Here's 10 reasons to ponder:. 1 We weren't hungry enough. I was alr...

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Memento: March 2011

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Virtual keepsakes worth remembering. Time to End Rotten Boroughs. Thursday, March 10, 2011. William Hogarth's satire The Polling (1758), shows the few electors being 'encouraged'. In the classic Blackadder the Third episode " Dish and Dishonesty. Foppish Prince George faces ruin if parliament votes to cut his income. But the government's majority is 1, so if he can just win a crucial vacant seat, his income will be safe. Fortunately, the crucial seat of Dunny-on-the-Wold is a rotten borough. OK, we've mo...

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Memento: February 2012

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Virtual keepsakes worth remembering. How to give a meaningful gift. Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Giving someone a meaningful gift is difficult. We want the gift to say what we feel:. 8220;I love you! 8220;Your life is so adventurous! 8220;You’re gorgeous! 8220;I treasure your friendship! 8220;You’re unique! But our gift can not talk. So we buy something expensive and hope it conveys the right messages. Or, we just convert our love into money, and send a gift voucher. Are our words really that worthless?

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Memento: Remembering Istanbul

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Virtual keepsakes worth remembering. Tuesday, May 25, 2010. 5 years ago tonight, Liverpool played AC Milan in the Champions League final. It was to be one of the greatest games of football ever played. This is what I remember. Let me tell you a story of young team. Who were sent far away from their home. To fight for their fans in that country. And also the red folks back home. It was half-time on a cold December night, and we were lost in a desert. We sang and stared longingly at its silvery surface, me...

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Memento: A crowd of precious individuals

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Virtual keepsakes worth remembering. A crowd of precious individuals. Wednesday, September 12, 2012. Twenty-three and a half years ago. My goodness. I was just a naive teenager. Dad was listening to the game on the radio. He called upstairs, to tell me "something's happened". I shooed him away. I wanted to watch the game on Match of the Day later that night without knowing the score. How antiquated that time seems now, a bygone age. Soon after, he told me the game had been abandoned. As it turns out.

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Memento: The Social Network Analysis of Football Matches

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Virtual keepsakes worth remembering. The Social Network Analysis of Football Matches. Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple." - Bill Shankly. Football is simple. But nothing is more difficult than playing simple football." - Johan Cruyff. Did you know that several academics have used network analysis in an attempt to derive insights into the beautiful game?

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Memento: September 2012

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Virtual keepsakes worth remembering. A crowd of precious individuals. Wednesday, September 12, 2012. Twenty-three and a half years ago. My goodness. I was just a naive teenager. Dad was listening to the game on the radio. He called upstairs, to tell me "something's happened". I shooed him away. I wanted to watch the game on Match of the Day later that night without knowing the score. How antiquated that time seems now, a bygone age. Soon after, he told me the game had been abandoned. As it turns out.

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Memento: May 2011

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Virtual keepsakes worth remembering. The Planet of the Landlords. Sunday, May 29, 2011. Forty years ago, wealthy Americans financed the U.S. government mainly through their tax payments. Today wealthy Americans finance the government mainly by lending it money." - Robert Reich. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It comes from ' The parable of the talents. An exhortation not to waste valuable capital. It seems that Jesus was an closet entrepreneur, as well as a social revolutionary. This sounds ...

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Memento: You only die twice

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Virtual keepsakes worth remembering. You only die twice. Saturday, June 22, 2013. 8220;I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”. Alas Iain Banks has passed away. How apt that at this very moment, shadowy systems are sifting through the digital residue of our lives, like Philip K Dick's precogs. Literature, particularly science-fiction, warns us of eventualities that have not yet come to pass, like ...

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Memento: January 2012

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Virtual keepsakes worth remembering. The Lean Startup Montage. Sunday, January 29, 2012. 8220;The best way to have a good idea, is to have lots of ideas” - Linus Pauling. But how do you prove an idea? Last week, I went to listen to. To a packed Mermaid Theatre, (a great event, thanks. A startup as: “a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model”. In other words, startups attempt to monetise opportunities, rather than exploit certainties. It is this extreme uncer...