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A renowned community of quilters is taking on copycats — and winning

The Verge

That requires a drive deep into the Alabama Black Belt, along red dirt roads with little to no cell signal, through an isolated stretch of grassy meadows and pine woods, to a community deep in an oxbow of the Alabama River that, if the ferry’s not running, is nearly 40 miles from the closest hotel, supermarket, or pharmacy.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

Walk into a youth hostel or budget hotel in any exotic country around the world, and you’re more than likely to see someone reading a guidebook from Lonely Planet, the dominant global brand in budget travel. Strategic positioning in the flow economy. The six elements of the flow economy. You can: • Build. Form Alliances.

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If it is always “Day 1” at Amazon, it is Day 10 in Government

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

Try getting a driver’s license or not paying your taxes. I recently stayed at a Hilton Hotel which had a happy hour with free beer. Mistakes such as a $43 million budget overrun for the City of Seattle’s utility billing system make headlines and are featured on the 11:00 PM news. Are governments irrelevant? Government cannot.

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- Thanks & Turkeys 2010

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

My own department’s budget was cut by over 17% and I’ve laid off over 10% of my workforce over the past two years. These are all tough choices, and they are done in the glare of publicity with many competing demands by constituents for the ever-shrinking pot of money. And precipitously falling tax revenues.

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The ad industry is going all-in on AI

Vox

That decline contributed to mass layoffs and budget cuts across the media industry. Olivier Anrigo/Getty Images for TikTok The Carlton Hotel where TikTok had its press preview on June 19, 2023, in Cannes, France. And in the past year, the advertising industry has desperately needed something to be optimistic about. AI is not new.