January 2010
Afghanistan, January, 2010 →
The Big Picture: “As the surge of 30,000 U.S. troops continues to pour into Afghanistan, the Obama administration is now considering the possibility of reconciling with some of the Taliban, reintegrating the soldiers into society, as a way to find an end to this long conflict. The plan is supported by Afghan president Hamid Karzai, although discussions are still in the very early stages. A...
“In one year, here’s what I caught (you might have your own list):
The last...”
– Free Publicity: Who do we help? - Anil Dash
I really, really enjoy Anil Dash.
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“The Obama administration is a brilliant real-time example of the difference...”
– evangotlib (via mikehudack)
Letter from Mark Twain to a snake oil peddler:... →
“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s...”
– Conan O’Brien
Brian Solis at Mashable | The Maturation of Social... →
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tompeters! | What is Excellence? By Seth Godin →
tompeters! | What is Excellence? By Seth Godin
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Video Interview: Scott Monty, Ford Motor Company ... →
Cool. Disclosure: Ford Motor Company is my client.
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Google: There is Potential to Make the Mobile Web... →
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3 Awesome New Apps for 2010: Thesixtyone, Quora,... →
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“Newsrooms are, as the cliché goes, the graveyard of broken dreams. I used to...”
– Warren Kinsella - THE GRAVEYARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
WSJ Photographers Document 4th Day of Crisis →
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apophenia: Facebook's move ain't about changes in... →
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5 Ways Foursquare is Changing the World →
Love, love Four Square. Have noticed people (Maggie Fox and Mark Evans for 2) are rethinking privacy as services track and share actual location details.
mashable:
Sometimes the smallest changes in the status quo can have the greatest impact on the world. So while Foursquare may appear to be nothing more than a mobile application getting excessive…
Reclined Computing With Your Laptop | Web Worker... →
In the market for one if these for bad back/work from home days.
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Letters of Note: Hang on, my love, and grow big... →
Iggy Pop writes endearing letter to fan.
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“Most people are going to be sleeping outside for fear of being inside the...”
– Dr. Greg Elder, operations manager for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Haiti on the conditions after the earthquake. Read the full interview. (via doctorswithoutborders)
Toronto Photography Classes / Seminars -... →
Took the Digital SLRs: Going Manual seminar tonight. It was perfect for me, a great refresher on basics and hands-on instruction with good examples on settings.
“The situation is chaotic. I visited five medical centers, including a major...”
– Stefano Zannini, Doctors Without Borders (via doctorswithoutborders)
“In fact, a University of London study done for Hewlett-Packard found that...”
– How to Survive Information Overload: Which is Worse for Your Brain: Texting or Pot? | BNET
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Is This KFC Ad Racist? [YOUTUBE VIDEO] →
mashable:
Is this ad racist? Your opinion might vary depending on your cultural background … and that’s a new reality we’re facing in the YouTube era.
The Australian KFC ad in dispute (below)…
Misplaced Doubts About Facebook Advocacy |... →
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The Danger of Entrepreneurial Passion | HBR →
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The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their... →
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is... →
“Facebook allows everyday people to share the minutia of their daily lives with trusted friends and family, to easily distribute photos and videos - if you use it regularly you know how it has made a very real impact on families and social groups that used to communicate very infrequently. Accessible social networking technology changes communication between people in a way similar to if not...
“Today, of course, search engines utilize far more complicated signals to...”
– John Battelle - Search Getting Worse? What Do You Mean? | BingTweets
“The first camp views privacy as a fundamental human right, like the right to...”
– Regulated Privacy in Wireless Advertising Messaging: FIPP Compliance by Policy vs. by Design by Heng Xu, John W. Bagby and Terence Ryan Melonas via The ascendancy of the non-private person | Boing Boing