In “sex scandal” after “sex scandal” the politician stands in front of the media with his wife in tow, apologizing for his lapse in judgment before emphasizing how much he loves his family; meanwhile the woman he paid is vilified for her prostitution in the media and then by the courts.
Now, news corps, big businesses, small organizations and weird dudes living in their parents’ basement eating Cheetos all are producing content in the same form. Basement dude could potentially become just as influential as NYT blogger. So how can Joe Schmoe tell what’s “news” and what’s a whole lot of BS?
What I realized through my lack of action over the past year is that great things can happen in a juncture. We’re really just procrastinating when we deceive ourselves into thinking we should wait.
You can create various business cards, though I’m not entirely sure why. Possibly for different networks you’d like to hand it out to. All in all, it’s just a different template than what MyBlogLog happens to use and isn’t very customizable as far as CSS is concerned.
Using an RSS reader, particularly Google Reader, I am able to pull the posts and “aggregate” them into one simple to use interface. While this isn’t any particularly new technology, the new site designed for the iPhone is amazing.
In 1993, author Michael Crichton predicted the demise of mass media within a decade, claiming that traditional outlets would be “vanished, without a trace,” by 2002. It took a bit longer than ten years, but his prognostication is finally coming to fruition…
It’s awesome that somebody has actually figured out how to do this effectively– spread the word about something using YouTube– and it’s even more awesome that it hasn’t come from Suits at Summits, using jargon and repeating the word “fiscal” ad nauseam.
Now I’m halfway through my Master’s in Finance, and enjoying every other minute, what will I be doing with it that I couldn’t do without it? I’m sure a lot of what I’m learning I could have gotten climbing corporate ladders, but I’m hoping to skip some rungs, if not get off the ladder all together.
Ready for fair and balanced? Here you go: The Michael Pfleger story is a non-story and should have no bearing on whether one supports Barack Obama or not.
From what I have heard about most foundations, they are stuck a lot like many nonprofits are. There have to be changes made in both nonprofits that do the service and those that fund it, and Bill Somerville provides his readers with some great ideas for how to make those changes in the foundation field.
