The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts... From the early 1970s, David Bowie has used cut-ups to create some of his lyrics. This technique influenced Kurt Cobain's songwriting.[4] Thom Yorke applied a similar method in Radio Head's Kid A (2000) album, writing single lines, putting them into a hat, and drawing them out at random while the band rehearsed the songs. Burroughs taught the cut-up technique to musician Genesis P Orridge in 1971 as a method for "altering reality". H/er explanation was that everything is recorded, and if it is recorded, then it can be edited (P-Orridge, 2003). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique (more)

Ian Bicking is seeking the Next Level Of Collaboration Ware. Intense collaboration is cool, but it’s not comprehensive. I don’t want to always be watching over your shoulder. What will first come to mind is privacy, but that’s not interesting to me. I would rather address privacy by helping you scope your actions, let you interact with your peers or not and act appropriately with that in mind. I don’t want to engage with my collaborators all the time because it’s boring and unproductive and my eyes glaze over. I want to engage with other people appropriately: with all the intensity called for given the circumstances, but also all the passivity that is also sometimes called for. I’ve started to think in terms of categories of collaboration.

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Amazon has launched a KindleWorlds Fan Fiction operation. Amazon has licensed the rights to three book series, all of which have spawned television shows: "GossipGirl," "PrettyLittleLiars" and "VampireDiaries."

An interesting article in how some Law School-s are Gaming The System of ratings. (more)

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Source of Professional Degree needed to become Lawyer. (more)

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Book Publishing concept that seems to rely on the author taking more responsibility for their own Marketing. (more)

Nova Spivack thinks it's time for consolidation (M And A) in the Intelligent Software Assistant market. (more)

Teresa Torres: The 14 Most Common Hypothesis Testing Mistakes Product Teams Make (And How to Avoid Them). Teams who invest in research are quickly finding that their experiments are only as good as their hypotheses and experiment design. (more)

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Graph Drawing app to provide interface to your EverNote, Drop Box, and Google Drive... (more)

James Pinkerton thinks that a Containment policy will be best in the Middle East/Iran. (more)

Interview with Chet Richards. FourGW, etc. (more)