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"This isn’t to say that the successors of Rosenberg, Rawls and Keynes don’t exist, only that if they do, they are not likely to get traction in a culture that has so little use for ideas, especially big, exciting, dangerous ones, and that’s true whether the ideas come from academics or others who are not part of elite organizations and who challenge the conventional wisdom. All thinkers are victims of information glut, and the ideas of today’s thinkers are also victims of that glut."
An analysis of how the fake quote "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. - Martin Luther King, Jr" originated & went viral through the social networks in a couple of days
It all boils down to the kind & quality of interaction you have with your followers. Wonder when they'll come up with a metric for that.
Interesting little tool. Not very descriptive though
via http://lifehacker.com/5526429/see-what-facebook-publicly-publishes-about-you/
So what do you want to be? A mini-celebrity or a recluse or something in between?
Wonder whether things are as bad as all the articles that have been floating out over the last few weeks are making it out to be. Only time will tell.
In the meantime, I wonder what alternatives we have to facebook. Orkut? MySpace? Doubt that. At least my
facebook: All your everything are belong to us.
Time to look for safer alternatives?
Controversies aside, the recent facebook changes do have something for the developers all over.
Software to track the activity of employees online. Wonder what this means for privacy.
via http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_sentry_track_employees_across_the_web.php
'A dating site that markets itself as an elite community for beautiful people with a "strict ban on ugly people" has axed about 5,000 members for packing on the pounds during the holiday season.
The international site BeautifulPeople.com threw out members
Interesting site to promote photography irrespective of the device.
'What is The Best Camera?
The Best Camera Is The One That's With You™, but it's also an inspirational 3-part "ecosystem" created by world-renowned photographer, Chase Jarvis. Introducing
The ideal tool to get the water to the horse. I wonder when someone'll come up with one to make the horse drink it.
I wonder how it'll work out. I guess some people will post about the event online. Interesting event nonetheless.
'The event is named #socialtrance and is solely for users of facebook and Twitter. Users who take part will be hypnotised and given positive
It's not so bad. I'm actually trying to get my grandfather on facebook :-)
The action movie star Vin Diesel clocks in at 7 million fans, which is more than Barack Obama (6.9 million) or Megan Fox (5 million). Yes, people on Facebook are idiots (Megan Fox is much hotter than Vin Diesel). In contrast, the most popular person on Tw
Corporates & mobile access feature big time in the prediction
Facebook comes out on top followed by MySpace & Bebo. Orkut's at no. 6. Odd to see that Yahoo 360 is still on the list.
Publications by Danah Boyd, a social researcher. Papers are mostly on social networks & trends among the youth.
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