Brain imaging studies are showing that different cultures are wired differently in their neurons. Not only do different societies think differently, but their physical make-up is reshaped in line with their cultural bent. This verifies what communicators have long suspected, but it also heightens the challenge of sending messages. We must be even more aware that what […]
Posted on November 30th, 2010 by admin
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Today is Cyber Monday, the day that we are all to go to work then get online to shop for the holidays. It says something about our culture that a period, which once was a religious and family time, has become a mercantile contest. The erosion of the original intent of the holidays has become […]
Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin
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It’s been a year since I did my last Four Links post?! It’s not Twitter’s fault. In fact, thanks to Delicious, I’ve been tracking more relevant content in the last 12 months if anything else. But I’ve customized the design of my blog enough that TypePad won’t let me push my Delicious links here as […]
Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin
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A group of new social media applications are focused on letting you share — but with a closed circle of friends. Apps like Path, GroupMe, Fast Society and ChattrSpace are focused on letting you share and communicate quickly and easily to a predefined group of people. Surely one reason for the influx of these sites […]
Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin
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We keep hearing the tech press refer to one technology killing another. I get it — if it bleeds, it leads. But it oversimplifies the discussion. And over time it sets everyone up for disappointment — killer, victim, media and most of all users. Four Launches, No Funerals Remember how FriendFeed was going to kill Twitter? […]
Posted on November 28th, 2010 by admin
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South Korea has accepted the resignation of its defense minister in the wake of the artillery bombardment from the North. The firing was symbolic and a message to South Koreans that the status quo with the North is not acceptable. But, what is acceptable? The country is in a delicate position. It is trying not […]
Posted on November 25th, 2010 by admin
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Why is it that publishers and authors never learn when it comes to writing books? In this case, it is news that a newly minted senator from Kentucky has landed a deal to write a book. He hasn’t done anything yet except win an election, and chances are that whatever he writes will come back […]
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by admin
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This story exemplifies the messages sent when people are appointed to a new position within a company. In this case, it appears that the cable side of NBC television is on the ascendancy while the network side is not. It doesn’t matter whether that is the intent of Comcast’s CEO or not. Appearances and actions […]
Posted on November 23rd, 2010 by admin
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Posted on November 23rd, 2010 by admin
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The Irish government has decided to take a bailout after weeks of refusal. It is a come-down for a country that was a modern economic miracle just a few years ago. One wonders how the economy spun so far out of control, but then one needs only look at the US to find a similar […]
Posted on November 22nd, 2010 by admin
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