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21 NOV 09
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03 NOV 09
Six Social Media Trends for 2010 - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org SAVE
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6. Sharing no longer means e-mail The New York Times iPhone application recently added sharing functionality which allows a user to easily broadcast an article across networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Many websites already support this functionality, but it's likely that we will see an increase in user behavior as it becomes more mainstream for people to share with networks what they used to do with e-mail lists. And content providers will be all too happy to help them distribute any way they choose. These are a few emerging trends that come to my mind — I'm interested to hear what you think as well, so please weigh in with your own thoughts. Where do you see social media going next?TAGS
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27 OCT 09
"Freakonomics" Authors Tell You How to be a Good Prostitute | Sex and Relationships | AlterNet SAVE
It's also clear in the fact that they praise prostitution for allowing men to have sex without the "the potential costs of an unwanted pregnancy." (Well, no, sex with prostitutes did not carry the potential costs of an unwanted pregnancy, for men. In fact, I've noticed that very few men tend to get pregnant as the result of sex, whether with prostitutes or with anyone else. Perhaps Levitt and Dubner can take some time, in their forthcoming book Superduperultrafreakonomics, to puzzle that one out for us.) -
19 OCT 09
The Heroin Bomb in Afghanistan- Page 1 - The Daily Beast SAVE
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In Vietnam, U.S. forces had a 20 percent addiction rate to China White, the almost-pure heroin from the adjacent Golden Triangle. Russian soldiers who served in Afghanistan in the 1980s returned to the motherland with an addiction rate than also approached 20 percent. This heroin bomb then does collateral damage back home. The returning soldiers brought home a heroin problem to Russian cities that grew exponentially during the past two decades. This past March, Russia’s anti-narcotics bureau announced that the country had become the planet’s “No. 1 heroin consumer.”TAGS
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Introducing: The Book of Odds - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com SAVE
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What’s more dangerous: a playground jungle gym or your office chair? As it happens, one in every 3,759 fatal accidental falls starts from a piece of playground equipment. You’re 85 times more likely, meanwhile, to fall to your death from a chair. That’s one of the many odd pairings waiting to be discovered in The Book of Odds, an online statistical encyclopedia launching tomorrow.TAGS
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08 OCT 09
Book Review: "Commonwealth" - WSJ.com SAVE
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The authors warn the rulers of the capitalist world that if they want to survive a little longer, they need to enact reforms, including global citizenship, a right to income for everyone and participatory democracy. But Messrs. Hardt and Negri don't think that their warning will be heeded. Revolution will erupt—and soon. It could be violent, a prospect that does not seem to trouble them: "What is the best weapon against the ruling powers—guns, peaceful street demonstrations, exodus, media campaigns, labor strikes, transgressing gender norms, silence, irony, or many others—depends on the situation." Pirates, the rioting Muslim banlieusards of Paris and the Black Panthers all are praised in "Commonwealth" as heroes of disruption.TAGS
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30 SEP 09
We’ve Run Out of Planet for the Year | GOOD SAVE
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It seems like sometime last Friday, around 3:00 p.m. EST, we crossed over the threshold of acceptable usage for Earth. That means we are now, according to The Footprint Network, living beyond our ecological means (put another way: We’ve used up the planet’s resources faster than they can be naturally replenished).TAGS