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Social Change, Me, and My Mustache

Nov. 19, 2009

What started as a few days last week opting not to shave led me to remember Gradon Tripp’s desire to fight prostate and testicular cancer and Mike Schneider’s video of shaving as part of a 10-year-old global movement every November “to change the face of men’s health” called Movember.
Purposefully choosing not to grow a mustache [...]

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Why Unfriending is Important This Year

Nov. 17, 2009

You may not appreciate when someone unfriends you on a social networking site, but the action verb has a lexicographical importance to the New Oxford American Dictionary which announced unfriend as its 2009 Word of the Year.

From the press release:
“It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary [...]

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Reviewing Twitterville

Nov. 2, 2009

“Wherever you live, chances are you think your government could do a better job,” writes Shel Israel in the opening sentence of chapter 13 of Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods.
Shel explains the background to the book’s title, published earlier in 2009, in the introduction, some 200 pages earlier:
Twitterville connotes a [...]

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iPhone, uPhone, We All Scream For..

Oct. 31, 2009

Have you heard the one about the 3-year-old and the iPhone?
The Boston Globe shares the following video report:

Call me a critic, but how is this news? Kids have always preferred flashy objects over dull ones. How is bubble wrap — the translucent-like film — anything but dull in comparison?
Perhaps the better analogy is giving a [...]

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Social Media: Banning vs Blocking

Oct. 29, 2009

I am sorry I have to write this but it appears some of the leading technology journals are unable to agree on the difference between a ban and a block. If I didn’t know better, some editors might think the two verbs are synonyms.

The facts
On October 6, 2009, IT staffing firm Robert Half International released [...]

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Embracing 5770 with Humor, Heritage, Social Media, and Birthright Israel

Sep. 27, 2009

As we usher in the Jewish new year of 5770, I remember this silly presidential L’Shana Tova greeting Obama and gang shared with you last year.
If you watch the embedded video in that link, it went viral with over a million views courtesy of an educational program enabling Jewish young adults to visit Israel for [...]

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Bring Wi-Fi to Amtrak – But How?

Sep. 21, 2009

After reading dozens of comments from Reason Magazine’s jab on Amtrak’s lack of wireless networking, I will hazard a guess the only way Wi-Fi will happen on its commuter trains (their Pacific Northwest lines aside)–without taxpayer increases and Congressional approval for increased budgeting–is by privatizing the National Railroad Passenger Corporation.
I’ll write that again: Want Wi-Fi [...]

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