Global Neighbourhoods: OK, it's 'Lethal Generosity,' but I'm going to need your help

"Let me explain; Lethal Generosity is the business strategy of doing as much good for your customer as possible, thereby screwing your competitor who has to either follow your lead or ignore programs that serve them."

Obama Beats Jesus In Top 10 Heroes Poll | PunkLuckBlog

"The Hinudstan Times reported that Barack Obama beat Jesus Christ to be American’s number one hero. This report was written in response to a new Harris Poll on the top heroes for American’s."

Human Brain Could Be Replicated In 10 Years, Researcher Predicts | ScienceDaily

"A model that replicates the functions of the human brain is feasible in 10 years according to neuroscientist Professor Henry Markram of the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland. 'I absolutely believe it is technically and biologically possible. The only uncertainty is financial. It is an extremely expensive project and not all is yet secured.'"

That was the week that was...Week ending September 25, 2009 - RecruitingBlogs.com

"I missed RecruitFest...and that was the week that was"

Social networking sites leaking personal information to third parties, study warns - Network World

Many major social networking sites are leaking information that allows third party advertising and tracking companies to associate the Web browsing habits of users with a specific person, researchers warn.

That's the conclusion of a study on the leakage of personally identifiable information on social networks done at AT&T Labs and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Who is "Recruitomatic?"

Recruitomatic is a pseudonym used by Amitai Givertz who publishes a blog under the same name: Amitai Givertz's Recruitomatic Blog

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Checking out Google Sidewiki...

...and wondering why pages like this one aren't supported: http://bit.ly/r59Ov

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You Didn’t Plagiarize, Your Unconscious Did

Is cryptomnesia—copying the work of others without being aware of it—to blame for journalism's ultimate sin? Um, maybe not.

Anarchy in Critical Dystopias: An Anatomy of Rebellion | Taylor Andrew Loy

The aim of this paper is not to conclude definitely what Anarchism is but what it does, how it works within the boundaries of each thought experiment. Ultimately, each of these texts is a performance, an acting out of Anarchistic ideals embodied in each character’s response to the demands of their environment.

What’s the Value? My comment on Brave New World of Digital Intimacy - Pistachio

"We’re seeing genuine tribe-finding, sharing, strength and solidarity. We’re seeing ideas spread faster and further, real problems solved faster, genuine connections and introductions made with more ease, and a bubbling up of substantial news and cultural/market information from the sum total of expressions in the system."

Twitter's Investors Missed the Cluetrain - Here's Why | The Socialist | Fast Company

"'Ten years after Cluetrain went up on the Web, I am convinced that we are still in the Net's Paleozoic [era]. Google, Facebook and Twitter are early arthropods and echinoderms,' says Searls. 'Trilobites may have ruled the Paleozoic (they were around for more than a quarter billion years) but they died off and other eras followed, with many more interesting life forms.'"

Re-visiting employee cynicism: On decentrement of the subject via work blogging | Katarzyna Kosmala and James Richards | Warwick University

Employee cynicism is an emergent and increasingly regular feature of organisation studies. Currently, employee cynicism is portrayed in two distinct ways – an unconstructive employee characteristic that jeopardises organisation performance, or, is a topical form of employee non-cooperation under post-industrial labour processes. This paper seeks to inform such notions by presenting the case for a distinct approach to employee cynicism. By way of concepts developed from Lacanian theory and the examination of work blogging practices, we present fresh understandings of employee cynicism and its more nuanced nature. Our findings are unique as they consider how the ‘cynic’ evolves over time. As such, employee cynicism should also be considered as a process to emerge when individual employees become aware of a significant gap between organisational discourse and the ideal role for the subject taken by the job holder. We believe cynicism to be indicative of the employee compensating for irreconcilable gaps in organisational discourse and leads, for some, to a new perspective of their ideal role in relation to the work organisation. However, for others, this is not possible, and such cynicism continues to be denoted by unconstructive and non-cooperative characteristics.

Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America' - Telegraph

"Movieguide.org, an influential site which reviews films from a Christian perspective, described Darwin as the father of eugenics and denounced him as 'a racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder'. His 'half-baked theory' directly influenced Adolf Hitler and led to 'atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering', the site stated."

Oh, dear.

Social Media Today | Niall Cook | Augmented reality, part two

"I keep getting drawn back to the topic of augmented reality and how it might impact on marketing and communication. When I wrote my first post on the subject I was beginning to explore some examples of the technology. After a period of reflection, I’m left with two questions:

1. How to describe it in layman’s terms
2. What the applications to marketing/PR might be"

For the first, I think I’m getting close. Get people to think about a physical object (reality) and data about it (or data about that data) that could exist online. These are the two core components.

That was the week that was...Week ending September 11, 2009 - RecruitingBlogs.com

"Well, it was an interesting week what with ERE in my backyard and all. Naturally, the highlight for me was getting to whine while under the influence of some top-notch hooch..."

THEO PAPHITIS: Why ALL bosses should do what I did and ban staff from Facebook | Mail Online

"The internet has heralded a revolution in our society. It has transformed the way we do business, entertain, communicate and travel. In many ways, the change has been positive. The web has brought new freedoms, spurred economic growth and extended the boundaries of knowledge.

In my own sector, particularly in my role as chairman of Ryman, the stationery company, I have seen how the internet has created dramatic new opportunities in everything from marketing to distribution."

Hat tip: Digital Recruiting

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