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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
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And television
watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year.
Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a
year spent watching television. Or put still another way, in the
U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads.
Salary, Gender and the Social Cost of Haggling - washingtonpost.com
"This isn't about fixing the women," Bowles said. "It isn't about telling women, 'You need self-confidence or training.' They are responding to incentives within the social environment."
gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": blogging isn't dead, it's just a subset of something much larger and more important
I agree with Hugh. Have said many times that blogging isn't important because it's blogging. Blogging is important because it's today's popular way of 'doing something special' (the 2.0 stuff).
Comment by Kevin Anderson on 'Think of the children'. Yes, but also think about the journalism.
I'm not questioning the validity of anyone's fear. However, fear certainly should not be the only motivation in our public response to problems. And if we in the media are needlessly frightening parents, we are being irresponsible.
The WELL: Jonathan Simon, Governing through Crime
Very interesting. USA, war on crime, war on terror, culture of fear.
Amazon.com: The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things: Books: Barry Glassner
Amazon.com: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference: Books: Malcolm Gladwell
This, and Blink, are must-reads.
les critères de beautés à travers le monde et le temps - bienvenue
Marilyn Monroe: taille 42 de l'époque, 46 d'aujourd'hui il semblerait!
BBC NEWS | Technology | Web inventor fears for the future
Companies are starting to understand they need people who understand the web, both technically and socially. Good news.
Word Spy - feature fatigue
This is indeed why I still haven't bought a digital camera, and use my brother's hand-me-down one. It's also why I spent around 3 hours in the shop before managing to choose a new cellphone. And I think it's also why I tend to have trouble with this thing
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