A Trip Into The Secret, Online ‘Cloud’

via cnn.com
Making the complex simple is never easy.
This video on cloud computing and storage offers a really basic explanation of what happens to your digital assets like photography when you store them online.
For those of you not hanging out with the Twitterati it’s worth a peek.

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Impatient CEOs are all of a Twitter, but it doesn’t work like that

“Patience is the companion of wisdom” ~ Saint Augustine

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I’m So F**King Important

I can be accessed anywhere, everywhere — e-mail, Instant Messanger, Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Chat, blog, mobile, text messaging, landline, LinkedIn — and often times with the click of one button. My mobile phone never sleeps and my computer is always glowing. If someone needs me, they get me. I’m so busy — so f**king important.

Welcome to the counter-productive economy where everyone’s really busy and no one’s doing shit. That is, nothing of substance.

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I Have This Other Family

 
I have a confession to make. I have another family. I visit them several times a day. We have great conversations. Sometimes we speak for 2 hours at a clip — sometimes in the wee hours of the night. It’s not an emotional relationship. There’s no touch. But we connect on a different level. 
We have [...]

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A Philosopher’s Pointed Words About Twitter

In reading over a chapter in “The Art of Living” titled Speak Only With Good Purpose it occurred to me that Epictetus might have had a real problem with social media in general, and Twitter specifically. You see Epictetus believed that in order to lead a moral life one needed to perfect ‘right speech’.

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LinkedIn: A Brand Without A Soul

 
Let me start by saying that I want to like LinkedIn. I use it frequently and find it useful in a linear, 1.0 kinda way. LinkedIn accomplishes its basic mission of connecting professionals without the noise and distractions found on other social sites. But the brand is so vanilla, so unbelievably bland and soulless that I [...]

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How To Lose A Friend On Facebook

 
There’s a terrific article by Scott Brown in the November issue of Wired Magazine titled, “I’ll Be There 4 U”.
Brown says:
Thanks to Facebook, I never lose touch with anyone. And that, my Friend, is a problem…we’ve lost our right to lose touch….We scrawl “Friends Forever” in yearbooks, but we quietly realize, with relief, that some bonds [...]

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Kiss Me Before You F**k* Me: Don’t Force Brand Copulation on Consumers

Why then are so many marketers emulating teenage behavior and trying to force brand copulation on consumers without first getting to know them? This is especially true online. Look no further than Facebook to examine the bizarre behavior of frightened marketers looking for an edge over their competitors. Marketers with no logical reason for being on this site are posting Facebook pages and applications with reckless abandonment hoping to attract a younger demographic.

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