Taylor Cotter: A Struggle of Not Struggling. The Blog Comment Is Ruining America. Once I took a couple of deep breaths I realized, though her point is dumb, it’s still harmless.
But a large number of people didn’t take their time. The Internet went berserk. The comments section alone – not to mention Twitter, Facebook, and FriendSpace – is about the length of Anna Karenina, all just complete vitriol spewed at this little “successful” girl from outside Boston.
Just How Many Facebook Friends Do You Need? - Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Are Video Games And Internet Porn Destroying Our Young Men? Miscellaneous. Random Cool Inforgraphics. Pearltrees videos. Help. Mental Floss. Travel. Transportation. Nettiquette. The Case for a 21-Hour Work Week. To save the world -- or really to even just make our personal lives better -- we will need to work less.
Time, like work, has become commodified, a recent legacy of industrial capitalism, where a controlled, 40-hour week in factories was necessary. Our behavior is totally out of step with human priorities and today’s economy. To lay the foundations for a "steady-state" economy -- one that can continue running sustainably forever -- a recent paper argues that it’s time for advanced developed countries transition to a normal 21-hour work week. The Real and Virtual Worlds Are Melting Together. Arnab Sen is head of strategic planning at MRM, a global, top-five digital and direct agency in India.
As a trained anthropologist, Arnab applies social science to develop working models that help decode and interpret cultures of consumption, categories and brands. Social science studies increasingly suggest that the divide between the virtual and real worlds is narrowing. Our experiences of reality may no longer constitute a duality. Nathan Jurgenson of Society Pages, a multi-blog social science forum hosted by the University of Minnesota, rejects the idea of dualism. Will Data Collection on User Behavior Be Forced to End Soon? Harvard Business Review ran three interesting short pieces in this month's magazine, under the misleadingly timeless title "Tackling Business Problems.
" The three essays are actually guest submissions from business radicals, the final of the three being from social media luminary Doc Searls. Traditional Customer Relationship Management is dead meat, Searls argues. Companies should stop collecting data about their customers. The Society Pages. MTV's 'Power of 12' Campaign Has a Fantasy Political Election. MTV just unleashed Power of 12, a campaign designed to get 18- to 29-year-olds fired up about the 2012 U.S. elections.
Unlike previous campaigns — dubbed "Choose or Lose" since 1992 — the renamed initiative features a fantasy football-like gaming element in addition to MTV's traditional campaign documentaries, website and political news coverage. “Fantasy Election ’12” players will draft candidates competing for the presidency, U.S.
Senate and House of Representatives, and then score points depending on how well or badly the politicians conduct themselves. "In the way that fantasy football awards points when your players score touchdowns and deducts points when they throw interceptions, 'Fantasy Election ’12' will reward candidates for exhibiting the behaviors voters deserve, and penalize politicians for behaviors that hurt our democracy," MTV said in an announcement. Players also will earn points for discussing issues, registering to vote and checking in to debates and town halls. The Revenge of the Second-Tier Superhero Film - Scott Meslow - Entertainment.
Movies like Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance scrape the bottom of the comic-book barrel, but often in recent memory that's led to more interesting superhero flicks.
Stop reading this article and ask the next person you meet to name a superhero. In Defense of Nicolas Cage - Daniel D. Snyder - Entertainment. Whether out of desperation or enlightenment, he's become our least-self-important icon. Sony. Jeffrey Rosen: Interpreting The Constitution In The Digital Era. GPS monitors can track your every movement.
Brain scans can now see lies forming in your brain. And advancements in genetic engineering may soon allow parents to engineer what their children will look and be like. These new technologies are "challenging our Constitutional categories in really dramatic ways," says George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen. The Real Media Bias: The Police Force’s Disproportionate Power » New Deal 2.0. To say Occupy Wall Street has "clashed" with police is to pretend they have equal power and weaponry.
Brian Stelter wrote last weekend about the news coverage of Occupy Wall Street and of its 1,000 or so offshoots here and abroad. Stelter reports that the Pew Center's new survey found that OWS captured just 10 percent of national news coverage (presumably liberal, moderate, and conservative media combined) starting in October. Coverage fizzled to 1 percent until last Tuesday, when the NYPD prepared to muscle protesters out of Zuccotti Park.
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