I am not sure what to make of this. Jamie Oliver is riffing on the importance of school lunches and the importance of nutrition to America's children but somehow the computers have positioned dog food ads above his riff on the food revolution. "every dog wants to be a Cesar dog?" Really? My dog mostly wants to eat whatever the kids drop. What ads really belong here?

Here is an interesting contest of user voice. It generated 1600 Haiku's about Palin getting a million dollars from Discovery. I wonder if twitter and txt culture makes for better Haiku contest? We thought Discovery Communications' decision to give Sarah Palin a "nature" documentary series about the state of Alaska with a paycheck of a cool $1 million per episode deserved a tongue-lashing. So we invited you to join us in delivering Discovery an unconventional response. And we've received an overwhelming response, with more than 1,600 haiku submitted by you in just the last week! Now, we need you to vote for the top haiku. Friends of the Earth staff have culled through thousands of your haiku to bring you the best of the best. These haiku help show how ridiculous the notion of a Palin "nature" show is. via action.foe.org

This is a social club for pugs & their humans! We love our pugs- all ages, all kinds and we want to meet you and yours. The club holds monthly meetups that generally fall on the first Saturday of every month (barring holidays) at Austin local dog parks. We are usually at Bull Creek, but in the winter months we take field trips to other local dog parks! We also host bigger events like The Great PUGkin Fest, a halloween costume contest for pugs in October, the Valentines Day PUG Tuneup in February, the Spring Luau in April and the PUGtucky Derby in May. Some of these are fundraisers for pug rescue, and some of these are just events held to play some games, laugh at our pugs and have a good time. We would love for you to come out and join us- after all, we are all pug people! via www.meetup.com They want to talk to each other. They use technology to cluster. Coordination takes little cost. What things have they done that have nothing to do with Pugs? Are they green space advocates? Did they raise money for a disaster? Discuss politics? March at a Tea Party?...

it’s a losing game to pick winning technologies – instead, we need to use whatever works to put forward a clearly articulated set of values. “Even smart communications folks forget that we have a progression from values to mission, mission to strategy, strategy to tactics.” The campaign was successful because the tech decisions were led by this progression and empowered by the willingness of folks like David Plouffe to be open to innovation action. via www.worldchanging.com Brilliant look inside the thinking behind Obama's team and the way they approached technology. I love this quote... "use what works to put forward clearly articulated set of values."

Game Designers and trying to shift behavior by: This is disturbing in a big brother kind of way. bonus points ... sensors everywhere (DSI, Cell phones) value for points. points = money. tatoogle ad sense...yuk

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness have articulated the benefits of default choices in encouraging positive behavior for workers and organizations. Though those books talk about default choices in the context of retirement choices for workers, the key lesson that's been learned is how efficiencies can be gained simply by offering smart defaults. via expertlabs.org What are the defaults that you have set the wrong way at your organization? What does making it easy mean in the world of activism?