Archive for May 25th, 2007

Who are you sick of? Which “star”, celebrity, or reality show personality do you wish could be exported to Mars? Forbes.com has another instructive little list, this one consisting of the who’s who of “overexposed stars.” No doubt you can name them without even looking at the list.

Britney Spears, Nicole Richie, and Paris Hilton are [...]

The canals in Venice, the South of France and the glories of Rome do not have the snob appeal that they once did for travelers in the past. Travel is not near the rare thing it was even 50 years ago and each generation is seasoned, and now bored, with the usual offerings.
“[People] today are [...]

There is a notion bandied about quite a bit that asserts that the crowd or collective is smarter than the individual.Blogger Teemu Leinonen makes some interesting observations in a post exploring aspects of “crowd wisdom”.
“I finally read the Wisdom of Crowds – Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few by James Surowicki. I [...]

Has effective global networking really yet been achieved. All of this hullabaloo about networking and which group is better and how to capitalize on and manage all the connections – has it in the end caused more fragmentation than global blending? I really like the following quote because it is quite honest and almost sacrilegious [...]