Latest Breaking News: People are increasingly becoming disenchanted with bogus values

Posted on 2012/02/10 by nmw

Paul Krugman asks: “Could it be that traditional families aren’t as crucial to social cohesion as advertised?“

His conclusions are insightful, but I feel they are not exactly on the money. He concedes that social cohesion might have something to with the degree of education — but I disagree on that point.

In my opinion 99% of the disintegration in social cohesion is simply down to no longer believing in capitalist propaganda, and the disintegration that is occuring is largely an indication that employment is no longer a viable path for most people — whether educated or not.

The largest failure of economic policy continues to be an over-emphasis on employment.

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How to live a successful life

Posted on 2012/02/09 by nmw

Yesterday, two of my friends (on 2 different online communities) shared quotes. I wrote a blog post about one — but I am rather uncertain about whether I was able to get my point across coherently or not: How to become a celebrity

The other quote had an equally significant impact on me — it was attributed to Rainer Maria Rilke:

Du musst dein Ändern leben.

That’s hard to translate — it’s a play on words that doesn’t work so well when it’s translated into English.

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Everyday, I’m shufflin the deck

Posted on 2012/02/08 by nmw

The Mainstream Media Industrial Complex

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Success is keeping our independence forever?

Posted on 2012/02/04 by nmw

That’s quite a mouthful. Of course such a declaration of independence speaks to the (United States) American mentality — but I think such a “cocky” attitude does not go over quite as well worldwide.

Nonetheless, I wish Sarah Lacy the best of luck and success with her new project — whether that means remaining independent or becoming socially connected (much like the social network of Pando trees she dreamt about when dreaming about the project in the first place).

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New German Government Question + Answer Website off to a very slow start

Posted on 2012/02/01 by nmw

The website is being called “Dialog über Deutschland” — and apparently it is severely understaffed. Suggestions are either not being posted at all or not until long after being submitted. It almost seems as if they thought they could get by with a couple teenagers to manage the site!

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Anonymous 2012 message to world leaders

Posted on 2012/01/30 by nmw

Either you’re with us or you’re against us

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Google’s Privacy Policy doesn’t matter — for all I care, they can take their privacy policy and shove it where the sun don’t shine! ;P

Posted on 2012/01/28 by nmw

Who cares about Google? Only morons and noobs still believe in that crap.

For those of you who still aren’t clued in: Google = 99 + 44/100% SPAM!

;)

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Richard Edelman on trust in media melange

Posted on 2012/01/27 by nmw

Richard Edelman talks about results from the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer study:

Question: Is there — perhaps — an inverse relationship between the trust in media sources and the size of the media company? Take a look at my reasoning behind this question.

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Paul Krugman’s editorial vindicates a post I made last week

Posted on 2012/01/27 by nmw

See “Entrepreneurs cannot exist in a vacuum” (I must admit that I was also familiar with Professor Krugman’s “clusters” ideas before I wrote this)

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Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz Interview Adam Kmiec

Posted on 2012/01/23 by nmw

At about the same time as I wrote the post about Adam Kmiec’s “social media advice“, Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson were on the telephone with Adam Kmiec — and it has already been posted at the FIR homepage (note that the blog post includes a link to post I wrote at the bestopop forum — which includes blog posts from many online properties, and is open for public comments; the Blog/IM Zone @ Saarpfalz is a community website much like facebook.com, but it is built using WordPress and Buddypress).

Since writing the post, I have been thinking “why don’t I follow Adam’s, Neville’s and Shel’s blog posts?” — and now I have decided I will include their RSS feeds @ groups.linked.in … and hopefully I (and maybe some other editors I hope to invite to review business news there) can review their writing and ideas there — the way I do with other prominent thinkers (when I get around to it ;) ).

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