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Friday Links - 09-04-2010

Mickey McManus
September 4, 2010 in Articles

Ford, Bucky, star wars, dark patterns, the Mongoliad, rules for radicals, hackerspaces, iPony, and the most unsung actor in Hollywood.

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Friday Links - 08/13/10

Mickey McManus
August 15, 2010 in Articles

Cutting for stone, raising Chicago, duck knight, words, toast, and the problem with thinking too much.

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Friday Links - 07-24-2010

Mickey McManus
July 24, 2010 in Articles

Aspen Ideas Festival, TEDGlobal, holograms, creativity, and edible brains.

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Friday Links - 06-19-2010

Mickey McManus
June 20, 2010 in Articles

Fordlandia, under heaven, best small company to work for, slow motion disasters, rent a white guy, Al Franken explains the value of the constitution, best illusion of the year, and a real time world cup tracker.

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Friday Links - 04-30-2010

Mickey McManus
May 1, 2010 in Articles

Facejobs, the quantified life, didgets and data platforms, thinking about tomorrow, zip files all the way down, the marshmallow challenge, and the show book of the world.

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Friday Links - 04-16-10

Mickey McManus
April 18, 2010 in Articles

The Girl with the Tattoo, the iPad Challenge, Ed Catmull and the Hybrid Problem Solver, Panorama, robodog and rosie, heat vision and jack, will it blend, an impressive portfolio, and shaking your way to literacy.

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Friday Links - 03-26-2010

Mickey McManus
March 28, 2010 in Articles

The Ideas Economy, have paper will prototype, a case for design literacy, Black Hills, the heatswell coffee cup, an indoor tornado, the arrow of time (teeth edition), Ms. Badu visits Dallas, insect bling, and data data everywhere.

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MAYA Honored on Great Place to Work Rankings

MAYA was recognized as #22 on The 7th Annual Great Place to Work ® Rankings: 2010 Best Small & Medium Workplaces Presented by Entrepreneur®. The list was narrowed down from over 400 nominated companies and each company was evaluated on five areas: credibility, respect, fairness, pride, and camaraderie.

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"The Cloud" as Hindenburg?

Journalist James Fallows calls Mickey McManus’s reference to “The Cloud” as Hindenburg the “pithiest single sentence” he heard at the Aspen/Atlantic Ideas Festival. Mickey was a keynote at the Festival on July 7, 2010.

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New Director of Development Leads MAYA’s Interstacks Initiative

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New Director of Development Leads MAYA’s Interstacks Initiative

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Cusp Conference 2010 - "The Design of Everything"

September 23, 2010

Mickey McManus will be a presenter at the Cusp Conference held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Theater in Chicago, September 22-23. The conference provides a broad framework for discussion about a wide range of ideas and topics related to “the design of everything.” Mickey will talk about biomimicry and its role in taming the complexity of the trillion node world.

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