The evolution of death
Michael DeVita of the University of Pittsburgh recalls making the rounds at a student teaching hospital with his interns in tow when he remembered that he had a patient upstairs who was near death. He sent a few of the young doctors “to check on Mr. Smith” in Room 301 and to report back on whether he was dead yet. DeVita continued rounds with the remainder of the interns, but after some time had passed he wondered what happened to his emissaries of death. Most of us would agree that King Tut and the other mummified ancient Egyptians are dead, and that you and I are alive. The search for the moment of death continues, though hampered by the considerable legal apparatus that insists that it has already been found. Gregory Sorensen, MD, subjected cats to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston while he killed them with injections of potassium chloride, the same chemical used by Jack Kevorkian and lethal-injection executioners.
tech / no-longer-loving-google
The growing feeling that I'm a footsoldier in the ongoing Apple v Google v Microsoft v Amazon war is depressing. I stopped working at Google in 2006 but I only stopped loving it this month. I've frequently defended the company in public, explaining unpopular actions from what I imagine their side is. This last month has been particularly hard for Google lovers. I imagine half of my readers are smugly thinking "See, I told you Google was evil all along". Google is too powerful, too arrogant, too entrenched to be worth our love.
Google+ had a chance to compete with Facebook. Not anymore
AFP/Getty Images. Shortly after Google launched its new social network in June, many companies—including several online magazines, Slate among them—attempted to create “brand profiles” on the service. The rush was a testament to Google’s power to drive a flood of users to any new site it launches. Though Google+ was pretty rough around the edges, many observers called it a credible alternative to Facebook, so it made sense for companies to get in on the ground floor. Farhad Manjoo is a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of True Enough. Follow Yet Google seemed completely surprised by this turn of events. Google did finally release brand pages this week—here’s Slate’s page—but at this point the effort might be moot. The real test of Google’s social network is what people do after they join. I was an early Google+ skeptic. And yet, I’ve been surprised by just how dreary the site has become. Why am I so sure that Google+ can’t be saved?
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Google, what were you thinking? ← Mocality Kenya
Mocality has achieved some incredible things over the last four years, and has touched the lives of many people in Africa, but alas, all good things must come to an end. All of the Mocality Kenya and Mocality Nigeria operations will be closed as of 28 February 2013. If you would like to add your business or product you can now do it on OLX , its FREE. Looking for a Business, Service or Product let OLX help you find it. We would like to thank all of our Customers and Business owners for your patronage and support over this time.
Google+ pour tout le monde sauf pour les utilisateurs de Google Apps
Hier Google a annoncé l’ouverture de Google+ à tout le monde. Mais malheureusement cela n’est pas le cas. En effet si vous avez un compte Google Apps vous êtes malheureusement exclu de ce « tout le monde », la preuve en image avec la fameuse flèche bleue de Google pour recruter des utilisateurs : Connection sur Google.fr avec une session « anonyme » : Connection avec une session connectée à un Gmail : Connection avec une session connectée à un Google Apps, plus de flèche bleue seulement un petit lien sous la boite de recherche : Et puis plus rien… « Google+ is not yet available for Google Apps. » Avec ce message sur le Learn more : « Google+ availability for Google Apps accounts Google+ is not yet available to Google Apps users, but we’re working hard to bring the features of Google+ to Apps users in the future. Dans le style, c’est pas mal de privilégier tout le monde sauf les utilisateurs de Google qui parfois payent pour les services…
Tara Sophia Mohr: 12 Questions to Make 2012 Your Best Year Yet
Prompts 1. Because I wanted to make 2012 count, I... 2. Because fear of failure was no longer a good enough reason to not do it, in 2012 I... 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. You deserve a rich, joyful 2012, and it is available to you. See what emerges as you explore in this creative way what 2012 could hold for you. How To Use the Prompts Write or speak aloud. Go with whatever shows up first. You don't have to understand your answers right away. You don't have take action on everything you come up with. Use the past tense. You are invited to share your response to the prompts in the comments below! Tara Sophia Mohr is an expert on women's leadership and wellbeing.
Pourquoi j'ai quitté Google
Il y a un an le développeur James Whittaker quittait Google et le faisait savoir dans un article cinglant qui en disait long sur l’évolution de l’entreprise, obnubilée par la publicité et la concurrence de Facebook. Nous avons choisi de le traduire car les arguments nous semblent malheureusement tout aussi valables aujourd’hui. Ah, oui, et où est-il allé ensuite ? Réponse ici : Why I joined Microsoft ;) Pourquoi j’ai quitté Google Why I left Google James Whittaker - 13 mars 2012 - Blog personnel(Traduction : ACA, VifArgent, KoS, Eijebong, Alpha, angezanetti, Penguin, audionuma, P3ter, KoS + anonymes) Ok, je cède. Quitter Google ne fut pas une décision facile. Le Google qui me passionnait était une société high tech qui poussait ses employés à innover. Techniquement, je suppose que Google à toujours été une entreprise de publicité, mais pendant la majeure partie de ces trois dernières années, ça n’y ressemblait pas. Sous Eric Schmidt, les pubs étaient toujours à l’arrière plan.
How Iceland Is Rebuilding Its Economy With Social Media
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — While visiting Iceland for an online marketing conference last week, I found myself in the president of Iceland's living room, scratching my head at how welcoming and eager he was to talk about the country's use of social media and technology to rebuild the nation. The fact that Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson — who has been running the country for 16 years and just announced last week that he will be campaigning once again for re-election — invites strangers into his own home is not all that surprising, when you consider the way he runs the country. Sure, it's highly rare for someone in his position to open his door to people he doesn't know, but this is precisely the way he approaches government in this tiny, snowy country in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. "Iceland is a society based on the principle that everyone is a friend until proven otherwise," Grímsson tells me. The country is currently undergoing a resurgence since its economic meltdown in 2008.
