Slack-tivists All
People who click “like” on Facebook to show support for a cause are slacktivists, you on the other hand with your “Support Our Troops” bumper sticker, breast cancer ribbon fleece…
Sustainable Power for Facebook
Greenpeace has worked with Facebook to convert Facebook’s coal-powered datacentres to environmentally friends power sources. In April 2011, a Greenpeace report, How Dirty is your Data?, calculated that 53.2% of…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-11 02:07:00
PERSONAL MOLLY DEBATES THE INSANE Most of Molly’s “action” is now over at her Facebook site. Over there there is an interesting “debate” if you can call it such. The…
Integrating Corporate Responsibility Into Brand: GM vs Zipcar
There is a powerful opportunity for brand managers to integrate corporate responsibility commitments into brand platforms to win consumer loyalty. General Motors and Zipcar both ran recent campaigns in universities…
The Tyranny and Creativity of a Word Count
On the other hand, a really specific (short) word limit can force one to be more creative and improve the text. I love the Blaise Pascal quote: “Je n’ai fait…
Facebook cuts off blog feeds: making me feel sad
I must say for the near constant dribble of bad news about privacy, its galloping commercialism and all that I’ve always liked Facebook. It’s allowed me to reassemble and in…
Social Media, Part II: The Value of Social Media
Like it or hate it, social media is now a potent force in society that is legitimately changing the way people interact with information, with news and politics, with each…
Social Media, Part I: Information Flows
It is truly an empowering experience to live at at time with our neary effortless access to unprecedented amounts of information. More than just this, however, we are able to…
Video: Legal Ethics in an Age of Technology
Legal Ethics in an Age of Technology... That sounds a wee bit lofty, no? Some of you are probably thinking, “Ethics? We're talking about Facebook and Twitter, here, right?” Well…
Lobby Planet report shows Brussels spinning with corporate influence
lobbyplanet.jpeg THE maxim of the lobbyist is generally to be heard but not seen, although a new report on the concentration of lobbying in Brussels suggests you'd be hard pressed…
NPR Facebook Page Mentions, Storified
Here's another story I curated on Storify. There's so much more multimedia content that can be used. I'll be creating a storify collection(?) for what I worked on over the…
Friday miscellany: Jets, jets and pot edition
In an earlier postI asked my military and ex-military friends to tell me what they thought of the non-operational use of government and military (guess they’re the same really) aircraft…
Why I’m Not Jumping On Board The Google+ Bandwagon
by matttbastard Jillian C. York on why the current corporate backlash against online pseudonymity is misguided: There are myriad reasons why an individual may feel safer identifying under a name…
A Game That Protects Nature
A new FAcebook game has been launched that allows you to help the planet while you play. It’s called MyConservationPark and it’s made by Good World Games. MyConservationPark is a…
Giorgio Mammoliti– A Great Shirriff Roscooooo P Coltrane To Mayor Boss Hogg
Yes, ol’ Giorgio Mammoliti has been really becoming unhinged as of late. McCarthyism is indeed alive and well over at City Hall. A Facebook group that won’t allow ‘commies’, although,…
Why I’m Struggling with Google+
So now I've been a couple of weeks with Google+ and I'll be honest, I'm really struggling with the service. I wanted to give it a few weeks before writing…
Thinking of Making the Switch from Facebook to Google+?
Are you thinking of switching to Google+? Eweek takes on this question today, and provides ten compelling reasons to do so. Most convincing to me are:The ease of limiting your…
What Makes Google+ Different?
With the introduction of Google+, the social networking world has gotten a lot more crowded. Just like in business, competition brings out the best of us, and the new battle…
Facebook: A Giant Snitch?
While Facebook may not tell on you, your use of Facebook will be disclosed to others.
How Dirty is Your Data? Greenpeace Wants the Cloud to be Greener
My friends over at Greenpeace recently published an interesting report entitled "How dirty is your data? A Look at the Energy Choices That Power Cloud Computing." For those who think…