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Today, Seth Godin posted about art, summing it up as “art is what we we’re doing when we do our best work.” Good advice for those who feel that their job is not creative enough or allowing them enough freedom to innovate. If you find yourself in that situation, ask yourself how you could...
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Seth Godin is good at practicing what he preaches, at least when it comes to his credo: the more you give, the more you get. I just stumbled across this post over at the Lava7 blog with a link to Godin’s free eBook What Matters Now. Essentially a collection of quotations from today’s big...
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All you tecktonic kids need to know that Bernadette Yao invented this in 1973 on ZOOM.
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Adevertising Age just published a list of “The Most Social Brands of 2008″ according to social media marketers Virtue. Among the top 50 are the usual suspects, for example, iPhone, CNN, Apple, Disney, and Xbox top the list as the most-mentioned brands according to Virtue’s survey. But I was surprised to see Lincoln clocking in...
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I’m not a sports guy, never have been, so the fact that yesterday was the Super Bowl had little effect on me, other than my interest in those ads that we hear so much about. Last night, as I was catching up on news as the second and third quarters played out, I watched...
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Today, for whatever reason (@tron suggested it was MacWorld) Twitter got unbelievably slow. It didn’t fail, as in days of yore, but it just ceased to update for long stretches, and then only grudgingly. I imagined the tapping on keyboards around the globe as people kept hitting refresh, trying to get some instant gratification,...
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There's no telling how long this will be possible, so if you've been thinking about changing your Twitter username, why not do it in the first week of 2009?
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Either way, Twitter is for real. A bona fide Rule Breaker that’s helping the Web’s wallflowers get social and create network effects on the cheap. And it’ll be made more valuable by a recession that’s forcing firms to spend creatively. http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2008/11/24/the-recession-could-make-this-company-rich.aspx
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We're in for a major news hangover sometime in '09, but for now it's Woodstock, and Bush just made the announcement about the brown acid going around.
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From The LinkedIn Blog “The past few weeks have seen the release of a slew of features that have helped augment your experience of LinkedIn; features ranging from refined network updates to the ability to add a photo to your profile. Today, we’re glad to announce the next step in that evolution – a...
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