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Microblogging Will Marginalize Corporate Email & I'm Not Actually a Geek

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:22:27 -0700

From the page: "Email is dead. If your company is relying on email for communication and collaboration, your company is walking dead in this new economy."

I�m So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:43:39 -0700

From the page: "Psychologists and sociologists spent years wondering how humanity would adjust to the anonymity of life in the city, the wrenching upheavals of mobile immigrant labor �" a world of lonely people ripped from their social ties. We now have precisely the opposite problem."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071224/us_nm/usa_immigration_selfdeport_dc

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:13:44 -0800

From the page: "She has spent three years working as a hairdresser in and around Phoenix, but now she figures it is time to go back to her hometown of Aguascalientes in central Mexico.

"The situation has got so tough that there don't seem to be many options left for us," Lindi, who asked for her last name not to be used, told Reuters."

Truthdig - Cristina Nehring on What's Wrong With the American Essay

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:51:36 -0800

From the page: "Is it our fault? Are we, as readers, responsible for the decline of the American essay? Have we become lazier, less interested, less educated? Attention spans, to be sure, have shortened. Gone are the days when people pored over periodicals at languorous length during transatlantic crossings. But this is not the reason why essay collections gather dust and why essayists so often count themselves �oesecond-class citizens” (in the words of E.B. White). If the genre is neglected in our day it is first and foremost because its authors have lost their nerve. It is because essayists�"and their editors, their anthologists and the taste-makers on whom they depend�"have lost the courage to address large subjects in a large way."

http://todayisnotoveryet.com/facebook-costing-250000000-daily/

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:19:56 -0800

# According to the law firm Peninsula:

* UK workers are costing their companies $250.000.000 daily as a result of using Facebook
* An estimated of 233 million hours each month
* 3500 companies where surveyed

Babies can tell if you are good or bad - Science, News - The Independent

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:46:29 -0800

From the page: "Babies as young as six months can tell the difference between good and bad behaviour, according to a study at Yale University in which infants appeared to warm to helpful characters."

Hottest Products of 2007: How did Hannah Montana become hot? - BloggingStocks

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:13:42 -0800

From the page: ""Where did you come from, Hotsylvania?,""

One Flew Over the Cubicles Nest : Shaking up the Old News Media

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:46:37 -0800

From the page: "* Get personal, and transparent: This means opening the mysterious gates to what has been a closed process. Taped interviews could be put online. Reporters could keep daily Lifestream journals or Twitter to let us follow them through their daily and weekly reporting exercises, showing real emotion ("I can't believe how Greenspan barked at me after that last question..").

* Reporters could act more like bloggers: Create conversations and build communities around issues. Launch podcasts of stories. Speak--ie, write--more boldly, taking contrarian views and challenging the status quo (some are already doing this-Check out BusinessWeek's blogspotting).

* Unleash citizen journalists--Arming everyday mortals with the channel to write about issues at a local level would be an interesting experiment. And don't think it couldn't work for the NY Times or WSJ. Imagine a story about a new tax cut. Wouldn't it be interesting to have real businesspeople--Main Street, not Wall Street--writing and talking about this, as a sort of sidebar running blog to a main story? "

fichey

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:04:03 -0700

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Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:19:24 -0700

How to get a popular blog.