Creative Class War

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The Care and Feeding of the Creative
Class

The Care and Feeding of the Creative
Class 12/22/2004 01:08 AM
Secrets for fielding teams that are passionate, playful, and high performance.

"Creative Class War" by Richard Florida

"Creative Class War" by Richard Florida 01/16/2004 01:04 PM
Creative Class War: How the GOP's anti-elitism could ruin America's economy .. Read the article here

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" "Creative Class War" by Richard
Florida"

" "Creative Class War" by Richard
Florida" 01/16/2004 10:58 AM

Creative Class War: Reverse Brain Drain
in US?

Creative Class War: Reverse Brain Drain
in US? 01/19/2004 08:29 AM
AlterNet is carrying an interesting article by CMU's Richard Florida called the Creative Class War. The article details the decline of what the author terms the "creative class" in the US and how these people are now both not immigrating to the US and how US policies are resulting in a reverse brain drain of educated people fleeing the US. Among examples cited are how Peter Jackson's (LOTR) new movie facilities in New Zealand contributes to the decline of Hollywood, IT outsourcing trends, how MIT had to cancel a large AI project "because the university couldn't find enough graduate students who weren't foreigners and who could thus clear new security regulations," down to individual examples such as stem cell researcher Roger Pederson leaving California to do research in the UK because "they haven't made such a political football out of stem cells." Overall, a fascinating and thought-provoking article.

Prison wipes creative-writing class HDDs
after student wins PEN award

Prison wipes creative-writing class HDDs
after student wins PEN award 04/20/2004 07:25 AM
A creative-writing student in a prison in Connecticut won a $25,000 PEN American Center prize for the work she did in jail. The prison system responded by erasing all of the writing produced by her and her classmates.

15 women inmates lost up to five years of work when officials at the prison's school ordered all hard drives used for the class erased and its computer disks turned over...

Department of Correction Commissioner Theresa Lantz halted the writing program March 29 after learning that inmate Barbara Parsons Lane had won a $25,000 PEN American Center prize for her work on the 2003 book "Couldn't Keep It To Myself: Testimonies from our Imprisoned Sisters."

Link (Thanks, John!)

"BBC Creative Archive licensing to be
based on Creative Commons -
Digital-Lifestyles.info"

"BBC Creative Archive licensing to be
based on Creative Commons -
Digital-Lifestyles.info" 05/27/2004 09:08 PM

Creative Manager Pro, Agency Management
Software for the Creative and Design
industries, announced new interface
enhancements and over 400 functional
improvements in its forthcoming version
7.0.

Creative Manager Pro, Agency Management
Software for the Creative and Design
industries, announced new interface
enhancements and over 400 functional
improvements in its forthcoming version
7.0. 06/09/2004 02:31 AM
Creative Manager Pro, Agency Management Software for the Creative and Design industries, announced new interface enhancements and over 400 functional improvements in its forthcoming version 7.0. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2004]

BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative
Commons

BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative
Commons 05/26/2004 04:39 PM

PHP Class 'PHP or Java Class Code
Generator' released

PHP Class 'PHP or Java Class Code
Generator' released 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
This package is meant is automate the generation of classes to access databases in Java beans style. It uses the Fast Template engine to process template files that define the skeleton of functions and variables of classes that store and retrieve data object property values from a given database table, getter and setter functions to access those properties and a function to delete a data object row from the respective database table. The package comes with templates to generate classes either in PHP or Java. The PHP template defines code to access data objects in a MySQL database. The Java template defines code to access data objects in any database supported by JDBC.

PHP Class 'Convert Class To HTML Table'
released

PHP Class 'Convert Class To HTML Table'
released 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
This class is meant to display the structure of any class as an HTML table. The class being displayed can have variables that contain objects of other classes or arrays and treats those variables each accordingly.

PHP Class 'calend.class.php' released

PHP Class 'calend.class.php' released 01/03/2003 07:52 PM
This class generates HTML calendars in the portuguese language. In portuguese: Esta classe gera um calendário em portuguęs em HTML.

PHP Class 'Bs_CsvUtil.class.php'
released

PHP Class 'Bs_CsvUtil.class.php'
released 11/08/2002 08:17 PM
Features: supports any separator char sequence, default is semicolon ";". supports separator characters in the values. eg you use a ; as separator, your line may look like blah;hello world;"foo";"foo;bar";"this is a ""string""";got it?;foo as you can see, the values can be in "quotes". if your text uses quotes itself as in the "string" example, they are escaped in ms-style with 2 quotes. and by using quotes we can even have your separator inside the text (example "foo;bar"). line breaks. a csv line may spread over multiple lines using crlf in a field value. see the checkMultiline param and the _checkMultiline() method.

Dual-Class Shares, Second-Class
Investors

Dual-Class Shares, Second-Class
Investors 04/14/2004 07:55 AM
Companies that reserve "supervotes" for management want your money, but not your opinion.

PHP Class 'Bs_StopWatch.class.php'
released

PHP Class 'Bs_StopWatch.class.php'
released 11/07/2002 07:59 PM
You can take times during a code run and at the end get a time table as HTML or text table. The output will contain total and as delta between each take in microseconds. Free Code; This Class is part of the BlueShoes PHP Application Framework, see blueshoes.org.

Syntax Groups Introduces “Olevia”
LCD-TVs Breaking Price Barrier for
Best-in-Class Digital Entertainment --
Joint Venture with Kolin & Prokia Gives
Strategic Advantages in R&D and World
Class Manufacturing

Syntax Groups Introduces “Olevia”
LCD-TVs Breaking Price Barrier for
Best-in-Class Digital Entertainment --
Joint Venture with Kolin & Prokia Gives
Strategic Advantages in R&D and World
Class Manufacturing 05/31/2004 02:07 PM
New Fully-Featured Syntax Groups 27" and 30" High Definition LCD-TVs are launched with lowest prices in industry and popular retail distribution. [PRWEB May 19, 2004]

Class war, dear chap, class war

Class war, dear chap, class war 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
Best silly new phrase of the day, from a Slashdot thread about file sharing, to denote files received over file sharing networks: "ill booten gotty" But anyway, Chavscum.co.uk, a sociological guide to Britain's burgeoning underclass: the Chav. Chavs, Neds, Townies,...

"What disappeared between 1970 and
today was not the middle class but the
lower class."

"What disappeared between 1970 and
today was not the middle class but the
lower class." 07/15/2004 09:59 PM
that there are two Americas today .. makes the argument

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Are We Still A Middle-Class Nation & A
Poor Cousin Of The Middle Class

Are We Still A Middle-Class Nation & A
Poor Cousin Of The Middle Class 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
...According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the following are among the occupations with the largest projected job growth from 2000 to 2010: combined food-preparation and serving, including fast food; customer-service representative; registered nurse; retail salesperson; computer-support specialist; cashier, except gaming; office clerk; security guard; computer-software engineer, applications; waiter; general or operations manager; truck driver, heavy and tractor-trailer; nursing aide, orderly, or attendant; janitor or cleaner, except maid or housekeeping cleaner; postsecondary teacher; teacher assistant; home health aide; laborer or freight, stock, and material mover, hand; computer-software engineer, systems software; landscaping or groundskeeping.     Are We Still a Middle-Class Nation? comes from The State Of The Union section in The Atlantic. Compare and contrast A Poor Cousin Of The Middle Class

How to be creative

How to be creative 08/01/2004 10:13 AM
Hugh Macleod, who draws the great "Gaping Void" toons on the backs of business cards, has posted a long and very good rumination of the formation, nurturing and execution of creative ideas -- complete with comment boards.

10. The more talented somebody is, the less they need the props.

Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece on the back of a deli menu would not surprise me. Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece with a silver Cartier fountain pen on an antique writing table in an airy SoHo loft would SERIOUSLY surprise me.

Li nk (Thanks, Hugh!)

How to be creative.

How to be creative. 08/01/2004 08:21 PM
Ho w to be creative. Hugh "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Macleod gives some excellent advice on how to do those creative things you've always wanted to do. vis boingboing.net

"how to be creative"

"how to be creative" 08/01/2004 03:10 PM

Creative or Reactive

Creative or Reactive 06/10/2004 04:57 AM

If the history remembers me, I would like to be remembered as someone who constantly struggled against the limits of creativity.  While I have been accused of excessive creativity by many, I am constantly and painfully aware of how incidental creativity is.

My mental model of human brain is a bed of wax on which a steel ball of consciousness rolls about.  The model captures my belief that thinking itself changes the person and affects how the person thinks in the future.  More one travels the same path, the channel of habitual thoughts deepens and thus raises the necessary force needed to escape the channel into new areas.  Events happening around us affect the direction and momentum of the moving ball.

From this perspective, being creative means possessing a oddly shaped mind that reacts in uncommon ways to common events and brainstorming aggregates oddity for higher yield.

Creative Commons at the W3C

Creative Commons at the W3C 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Ben Adida, one of our tech advisors, will attend the Semantic Web portion of the World Wide Web Consortium Plenary Session this Thursday and Friday in Cannes, France. RDF, the technology we chose 18 months ago to build our machine-readable licenses, recently became a finalized W3C recommendation.

Creative Commons 2.0

Creative Commons 2.0 05/26/2004 04:43 PM

After considering a lot of the feedback and statistics from the original Creative Commons licenses, we (I personally was only a small part of this) have launched the 2.0 licenses which I think make them easier to use and easier to understand. Congratulations and thanks to the team for all the work and an excellent step forward.

The details are on the Creative Commons page.

Creative MegaWorks THX 6.1 650

Creative MegaWorks THX 6.1 650 11/11/2003 12:52 PM
CNET Nov 11 2003 11:35AM ET

Creative usage of SMS

Creative usage of SMS 05/15/2004 03:49 PM
(for those of you who have trouble with the norwegian language, the board says “Border Control? Do you want...

Creative Commons

Creative Commons 06/12/2004 06:10 AM
Sparked by the copyright discussion raging elsewhere in this blog, I decided to license the content of this weblog under a Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike license. In essence, what this means:

You are free:

• to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
• to make derivative works
• to make commercial use of the work

Under the following conditions:

• Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
• Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
• For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.

For the full text of the license, click here for the English version, or in Finnish - the Finnish version being the legally valid one, since this blog is physically located in Finland and written by a Finnish citizen.

Note that this license does not affect whatever rights you have under the law - it's still completely okay to quote this blog without relicensing under CC, for example.

FC Now: Creative Transparency

FC Now: Creative Transparency 04/05/2005 06:49 AM
Last night, I watched the Japanese film "All About Lily Chou-Chou." It is a brutal tale about 14 year olds in Japan. More astonishing is that before the film was made, the director/writer Shunji Iwai started it as an online...

How to Be Creative -- the book

How to Be Creative -- the book 12/28/2004 05:28 AM
Cory Doctorow: Back in August, I bl ogged about Hugh Macleod's "How to Be Creative" project. Hugh draws cartoons on the backs of business cards and works in advertising; his How to Be Creative is a meditation on creativity, individualism and commercialism, and it's full of pithy, clear, no-nonsense advice.\

Now Hugh has expanded the piece into a short book, which is online in its entirety. He's found an agent and the agent is shopping the book -- I'd certainly buy a copy!

Chaos can be a positive thing. Chaos is inherently part of the creative act. To embrace creativity means you must also embrace chaos. Things don't happen when everything is neat and "just so". Creativity is all about distruption. The people who tell you that creativity is pain-free are liars. The people who tell you they've got a plan are liars. There is no plan. There's just you, God and the need to invent. And this uncertain world is what most of us now find ourselves entering, willingly or otherwise.

Creativity equals chaos. Chaos equals creativity. Embrace it or die. I've already done so. I know all about it. It almost cost me my liver but like I said, education is expensive.

The Creative Age is upon us. The Chaotic Age is upon us. We are scared. Damn right, we should be scared. But out of the terror comes the amazing opportunities for us to expand both on the material and spiritual level. The fewer safety nets there are to save us, the less choice we have to be anything other than ourselves, the less choice we have besides doing what is meaningful to us. And finding ourselves, doing what matters, becoming the person we were born to be, this is what God put on this earth to do.

We live in amazing and interesting times. If we're lucky, while on this earth we can do a damn good job proving i

Li nk

Do You Own a Creative Audigy?

Do You Own a Creative Audigy? 03/22/2005 04:23 PM

If you purchased a Creative Labs Audigy series soundcard before the end of 2004, you can get 25% of the purchase price back in a class action lawsuit. The offer ends September 25th, 2005 so hurry! Go to this website address for legal documentation.

Here is more from the Inquirer ..  Creative claimed that the products in question could handle 24-bit audio at 96Khz – indeed this was stated on the product boxes in bold letters, and in all advertising. But complaints filed in 2003 pointed out that this was only true in a very limited set of circumstances, and pretty much all of the audio passing through the cards would actually be processed at lower quality… Owners of all of the original Audigy series are included in the proposed settlement. This includes the Audigy ES, Audigy Platinum, Audigy Platinum eX, Audigy Gamer, Audigy MP3+ and also the original Extigy external USB sound module. Creative did not admit liability, but graciously agreed to settle the embarrassing case. Anyone, anywhere who purchased one of these products before the end of 2004, and is unhappy with the audio processing, will be able to get 25 per cent off the cost of their next purchase from Creative's website, up to a limit of $62.50.

 

Gapingvoid on how to be creative

Gapingvoid on how to be creative 08/01/2004 09:32 PM

Hugh, aka Gapingvoid has a great po st on creativity. He's one of the few artists/cartoonists who have taken advantage of blogs and has been successful in creating his own back of a business card cartoon format.

I use a blog card designed by him.

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gapingvoid: how to be creative

gapingvoid: how to be creative 08/01/2004 11:19 AM
how to be creative

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What is the Creative Zen Nano Plus?

What is the Creative Zen Nano Plus? 04/13/2005 08:57 AM

Mike writes:

I was skimming the stores in search of a good mp3 player deal [I lost all my friends trying to get one for free] and I stumbled upon something called a Zen Nano Plus. It's a 1 GB player, and it comes in the usual array of candy colors we've come to expect from Creative.

Some Google searching reveals only prices, capacity, and colors, and it looks a lot an iPod shuffle fighter, to me—512MB and 1GB sizes for $100ish and $150ish, respectively.

But the real question is: will it have a screen?

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Uncommonly Creative

Uncommonly Creative 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Creative Commons launches on December 16th. RSS 1.0 users can get going already, of course, with the Creative Commons RSS...

Creative destruction

Creative destruction 04/30/2004 07:59 AM
With his new novel, "The Zenith Angle," Bruce Sterling abandons the cyborg future for the more terrifying present of amoral terrorists and capitalists

Creative Zen Xtra

Creative Zen Xtra 04/27/2004 06:14 AM
vnunet.com Apr 27 2004 10:13AM GMT

Creative Commies

Creative Commies 01/06/2005 12:14 PM
Xeni Jardin: Following up on yesterday's Boing Boing post about Bill Gates describing free culture advocates as a "modern-day sort of communists," reader Jaime whipped up this bit of Soviet Constructivist goodness. Further the cause, comrade! Link to full-size.

Creative Prodikeys

Creative Prodikeys 04/16/2004 01:04 PM
vnunet.com Apr 16 2004 5:44PM GMT

On "Creative Communities"

On "Creative Communities" 05/07/2004 12:08 PM
Joe Buck commented on one of my earlier posts that when we (or I) use phrases like "creative communities" we tend to slight coders. "Besides the fact that a lot of geeks resent it, it builds unnecessary walls. Many on Jack Valenti’s side of the divide treasure their creative freedom and fight like dogs against any who would block it," Buck writes. I could not agree more. I guess I assume too easily that when we discuss copyright, Free Culture, and creativity, we are discussing the vast array of human creative activities. And I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that my audiences see creativity flowing over arbitrary barriers as I do. After all, "convergence" is not just a marketing or engineering concept. It is the essense of stunning creativity, whether embodied in a Picasso sculpture, a Mozart opera, or a phat video game. So I guess we need to make this point more overtly. After all, as Buck points out, each sub-audience of creators (musicians, composers, screenwriters, directors, hackers, coders, photographers) tend to see these issues in their local contexts -- "how does Kelly v. Arriba affect me?" When I speak publicly, I try to get musicians, for instance, to see that Alice Randall's experience with getting The Wind Done Gone published is something they might have to experience themselves. And that as cultural citizens, they should be concerned about her experience anyway. BTW, in The Anarchist in the Library, I make the case that the appeals court had to cheat to get The Wind Done Gone published. It is not a parody of Gone with the Wind. It is a transformative work that should have been allowed on those grounds. But the court was not willing to move beyond the narrowest reading of Campbell v. Acuff Rose. So we are stuck trying to force non-parodies into parodic costumes just to avoid prior restraint.
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