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You cannot prove the truth of a book from its content because any source of information has a natural instinct to perpetuate its own life.
Any source of information, any natural body and any being has an interest in its own survival. Therefore its natural reaction is to fight to survive.
A story will try to convince [...]

In the spring of 2008 Dave Carroll of the group, Sons of Maxwell, was the victim of bad client service from United Airlines in the US. United Airlines employees damaged his $3500 guitar but United refused to compensate him.
Carroll did what many individuals do these days when they come up against bullying conglomerates. He wrote [...]

If you are serious about South Africa you should read Mike Stopforth’s post about an address by Prince Mashele of the Institute of Security Studies.
Mike calls it  “… a brilliant speech that challenged me to my core, and I believe needs to be shared.”
I agree.
So I implore you to go to Mike’s blog and read [...]

This week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, addressed the Newspaper Association of America and dealt with the criticism of the newspaper industry against Google and the whole online news industry.
Before Schmidt’s address, Jeff Jarvis, journalism professor, wrote a hypothetical address to the members of the Newspaper Association about what is now accepted to be a crisis [...]

He stood at the corner of a circle.
Half his life on the left, half on the right. He estimated the height of the jump from the known into the unknown.
At twelve hours before twelve, a churchbell rung. He wondered whether people still go to church to listen. Do they rather go to think?
At 20 years [...]

I left the businesses, but it seems the news about the news industry keep on finding its way into my feeder every day.
The Rocky Mountain News in Colorado closes today, and its not a happy sight. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/
Here is what the Ink-Drained Kvetch says. I can’t put it any better,  save to say that some of [...]

You may save your children a lot of sweat if you remember Facebook (or all your social media platforms) in your Will to provide what must happen with your information after your death http://consumerist.com/5157481/facebook-wont-let-you-remove-dead-relatives-page-per-policy

“When someone asks you the question ‘who are you?’ What do you answer?”
Ex Polokwaneans Quinton Deacon and sons Xavier and Xante are busy building what must be a world first - a website where you not only post CV’s but actually build the most comprehensive CV available. It includes your professional profile, social, green, wellness [...]

“The year’s most successful startup took a skinny kid with a funny name and turned him into the most powerful new national brand in a generation”
Read how in the Fast Company 50 Most Innovative Companies

Scroll down and see how Web2.0 can benefit you.
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There are still many people in our community who do not realise how social media helped Obama win the election, and can help them to win the business they look for.
This may help: http://www.thinkbda.com/2009/01/22/how-barack-obama-got-elected-by-web-20-power/
The 21st century is here. Let’s go!

I stumbled over this “old” article today.
If you are in any way involved with teenagers, this is a MUST read http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4295414.ece

Three feeds landed in my inbox overnight and I think readers who want to take a look at using social media or at their private lives in 2009, can benefit from reading it.
Six lessons from a wooden boy:
‘Six lessons from a wooden boy’, a post by Jennifer Laycock on Search Engine Guide in which she [...]

Our family is at the stage where I and my contemporaries are the old generation, which means we must buy gifts for everybody’s grandchild.
We will be spending Christmas with my youngest brother, who happens to be the grandfather of a three-year-old boy in his Spiderman stage.
But, as the oldest of the old, I tend to [...]

I often say it is all about asking questions.
This is a good example of asking the right questions to come to the right answer: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/12/the-power-of-sm.html