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John Geraci lives in NYC where he is Head of New York Operations for faberNovel. He co-founded Outside.in, started DIYcity, and likes innovation, disruption and starting new things. For more about him, visit johngeraci.com.
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Note To TED, Local Projects and DIYcity: Nobody Owns the Web (Not Even You)
Last week TED announced their much-anticipated “City 2.0” project, the recipient of the 2012 TED Prize. City 2.0, The Atlantic states, is “a kind of global Wikipedia connecting citizens, political leaders, urban experts, companies, and organizations, with the goal of … Continue reading
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My TEDxBigApple Talk [Video]
Here is the talk I gave at TEDxBigApple a few weeks ago, The Disruptive Future of Cities. I had a great time giving this talk. Would love to do more like this one. Give it a watch and let me … Continue reading
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What Is Happening at johngeraci.com?
Wow, here it is already the backside of February and I have yet to publish the year’s first post to johngeraci.com. How did this happen? Well I’ll tell you: I’ve been insanely busy so far in 2012. Busy growing faberNovel … Continue reading
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Read This Article To Understand What 2012 Is Going To Be About
Have you read this month’s Wired article on YouTube fame seekers? If not, please read it now. I think it may be the most eye-opening article I’ve read this year. What it describes is a growing group of 20-somethings living … Continue reading
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Drones: Coming Soon To The Skies Near You
I know there are all sorts of noteworthy IPOs making the news this week, but the OTHER news item that’s filling the papers, and the one I felt like blogging about here, is the news about DRONES. Drones are everywhere … Continue reading
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Embrace Disruption To Save The U.S. Postal Service
If your business revolves around charging people money to deliver messages by hand over a period of days, how do you survive in a world where anyone can send anyone else a message for free instantaneously? That’s the question the … Continue reading
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Did Bitcoin “Fail” or Is it Just One Step On the Road to P2P Currency?
There’s a fantastic article in Wired this month about The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin. It’s a great read and a well-written article, but reading it one gets the sense that Bitcoin failed, and all of the P2P currency experiment … Continue reading
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Local CO2 Mapping Takes Off (With Your Help!)
Last week (or was it the week before?) I blogged about what I see as a big problem with the issue of global warming: contextualizing it as something “global” instead of local. When you frame something as global, it becomes … Continue reading
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Please Stop Talking About Global Warming
Here’s a question: why don’t people talk more about climate change? It seems to me like something that should be a constant topic of conversation these days, especially given that 2010 was the biggest year ever for global CO2 output, … Continue reading
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3D Printing: Even More Disruptive Than That.
“3d printing is even more disruptive than you’re giving it credit for.” So says Kevin Kwok of Yale University, in a comment on Wednesday’s post about MakerBot and 3D printing. Kevin is totally right, which is why I had to … Continue reading
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