Safety and Western Society
Kate Carruthers I have been cogitating – always a dangerous thing to do. The subject is safety. In the past safety was a rare and precious commodity. For example, until the advent…
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Resilience
The question of whether or not people of our time are resilient enough to deal with adversity like previous generations was a topic of discussion at one of the Girl…
Even more Caturday-ness
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Memes & hyper-ness
Here in a TED talk Susan Blackmore discusses how humanity has spawned a new kind of meme. She argues for the teme, which spreads itself via technology, and invents ways…
Yet another Twitter Top 100 List …
All those top 50 or top 100 Twitter user lists that enumerate the so-called Twitterati sort of annoy me. In fact, they annoy me so much that, a while back,…
Does sharing your goals with others help?
I’ve been a big fan of telling as many people as possible about my goals so it is harder for me to back out of them. Also getting people to…
How can you follow more than 150 people on Twitter?
When I first started to use Twitter there was a small and fairly tight knit group that I followed and who followed me back. It really felt like a community…
How do I choose who to follow back on Twitter?
A long time ago I confessed to @SilkCharm that I did not get Twitter and was about to abandon it. But at her urging I persisted with the darn thing.…
Twitter is either dying or going mainstream?
Funny how some things change and others don’t. Back in the early part of 2008 stories of Twitter’s demise were prevalent. I saved this Hitwise chart back in July 2008,…
Dear Viewers Using IE6
I don’t often just reproduce a copy of someone else’s blog entire post – but today I’ve made an exception for a good cause. My buddy @nickhodge has posted a…