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Crossing Gaps » Big thinkers http://crossinggaps.com A Digital Storytelling Firm Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:19:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Jack Ma of Alibaba. … http://crossinggaps.com/updates/jack-ma-of-alibaba/ http://crossinggaps.com/updates/jack-ma-of-alibaba/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:59:52 +0000 Quang Tran http://crossinggaps.com/updates/jack-ma-of-alibaba/ Jack Ma of Alibaba.

]]> http://crossinggaps.com/updates/jack-ma-of-alibaba/feed/ Be willing to fail - Jeff Bezos at Wired… http://crossinggaps.com/updates/be-willing-to-fail-jeff-bezos-at-wired/ http://crossinggaps.com/updates/be-willing-to-fail-jeff-bezos-at-wired/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:09:56 +0000 Quang Tran http://crossinggaps.com/updates/be-willing-to-fail-jeff-bezos-at-wired/ Be willing to fail - Jeff Bezos at Wired Disruptive by Design conference

There are a few prerequisites to inventing…. You have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to think long term. You have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time. If you can’t do those three things, you need to limit yourself to sustaining innovation…. You typically don’t get misunderstood for sustaining innovation.

- Jeff Bezos (via tedr)

]]> http://crossinggaps.com/updates/be-willing-to-fail-jeff-bezos-at-wired/feed/ Clay Shirky on the shift in the media la… http://crossinggaps.com/updates/clay-shirky-on-the-shift-in-the-media-la/ http://crossinggaps.com/updates/clay-shirky-on-the-shift-in-the-media-la/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:52:22 +0000 Quang Tran http://crossinggaps.com/updates/clay-shirky-on-the-shift-in-the-media-la/ Social media enhances the emotional dimension of news - Ideas Project

Clay Shirky says that the dissemination of news events via social media has heightened the role of emotion. The instantaneous manner with which users of platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are inclined to pick up, modify, and share messages favors excitement over objectivity.

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