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		<title>Codecademy / Code Year (2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been following Codecademy&#8216;s &#8216;Code Year&#8217; project: Code Year is a series of weekly emails, starting at the beginning of 2012, which support (but are not necessarily exclusive to) people who have made new year&#8217;s resolutions to learn (at least the basics) how to &#8216;code&#8217; (when I was at school, in the UK, we used to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7401708&amp;post=2304&amp;subd=matthewbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Timelapse Frankfurt, by &#8216;ALPHAPIXELS&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a similar vein to a previous post, Frankfurt/Main by &#8216;shootingnik&#8217;, I recently came across this excellent timelapse video by @alphapixels, which I like, and wanted to share &#8211; again, I think it&#8217;s a great &#8216;advert&#8217; for Frankfurt, highlighting its diversity and beauty, and the v ideo visits a number of Frankfurt&#8217;s key landmarks: &#8220;Timelapse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7401708&amp;post=2297&amp;subd=matthewbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Considering differences between forecast predictions and scenarios</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/considering-differences-between-forecast-predictions-and-scenarios/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has announced that it will shortly hold a special media event, regarding a development in their business model (such events seem to be partly for benefit of consumers, shareholders, suppliers, etc. as well as, seemingly, laying down a challenge to their competitors) &#8211; per AppleInsider: Apple on Wednesday sent out invitations for a special [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7401708&amp;post=2286&amp;subd=matthewbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AppreciaTED &#8211; a longer term perspective on nation states and the global economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TEDxBrussels, which I attended earlier this week (November 22, 2011), had the tagline &#8220;A day deep in the future&#8221; &#8211; the talks covered a broad range of perspectives around this theme, covering &#8220;Technology&#8221;, &#8220;Science from Fiction&#8221;, &#8220;Science&#8221;, &#8220;Made in Belgium&#8221;, and &#8220;Politics and Economics&#8221; &#8211; within this last category, Paddy Ashdown gave an excellent 18 minute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7401708&amp;post=2262&amp;subd=matthewbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where do ideas come from?</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/where-do-ideas-come-from/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/Tommydickson I&#8217;ve been thinking about this quite a lot recently. In a way, it is the &#8216;holy grail&#8217; of innovation, one that many innovation books are trying to answer, or help you with &#8211; if you can understand where ideas come from, and refine that, so you get better ideas more often, then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7401708&amp;post=2242&amp;subd=matthewbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An amazing (&#8220;amaz[on]ing&#8221;) customer service experience</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/an-amazing-amazoning-customer-service-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning (Sunday morning, ca. 7.30am my time, middle of the night in the U.S.A.), I went onto Amazon.com&#8216;s website, to follow up on a question that I had about my Kindle (an eBook reader device that I had purchased from Amazon.com). The process was slightly different to what I was expecting, and also different to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7401708&amp;post=2209&amp;subd=matthewbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Brainstorming doesn&#8217;t work&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/brainstorming-doesnt-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/DrAfter123 I recently wrote a post titled &#8220;Thoughts on ideas, brainstorming, facilitation, and crowdsourcing&#8220;.  In that I wrote &#8220;I love brainstorming&#8221;. And I still do (for the reasons given in that last post). Interestingly however, since writing that post, I&#8217;ve come across a number of opponents to brainstorming, most recently with the recommendation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7401708&amp;post=2104&amp;subd=matthewbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are enough people benefiting from your performances?</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/are-enough-people-benefiting-from-your-performances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/podgorsek There are already many great performances that are recorded and available on the web that will improve the lives of many (enjoyment, education, informative, etc.). Live performances that are great, but are not recorded or shared, will however most likely not be remembered &#8211; the presenter will not achieve the reputation or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7401708&amp;post=2181&amp;subd=matthewbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curious about &#8230; Birth rates, and the demographic-economic paradox</title>
		<link>http://matthewbenson.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/curious-about-birth-rates-and-the-demographic-economic-paradox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewdbenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/YsaL In the last few weeks I&#8217;ve heard two very contrasting interpretations of forecast birth rates. Both are largely based on the same facts, however with somewhat contrasting perspectives. The first interpretation, concerns itself with declining birth rates in the major, &#8216;developed&#8217; economies, asking the question, if populations aren&#8217;t growing sufficiently (and in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7401708&amp;post=2116&amp;subd=matthewbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thought leadership insights – not just a sales tool!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 08:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently shared with me a thought leadership article (cover shown above) from Accenture, a consulting firm.  The article shared views and insights into factors determining the adoption of electric vehicles, and future direction in which they will likely develop. These views were supported by a study/survey that Accenture had undertaken. The article addresses a topic that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewbenson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7401708&amp;post=2094&amp;subd=matthewbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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