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YouTube Blog: Broadcast Yourself
"For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload... Read more
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/03/broadcast-yourself.html
Tags: youtube, copyright, google, viacom, dmca, law, culture, video, free, hypocrisy Saved by: admin at 19 Mar 2010

Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world | Video on TED.com
TED Talks Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane ... Read more
http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html
Tags: gaming, ted, games, video, research, culture, education, presentation, computer, janemcgonigal Saved by: admin at 18 Mar 2010

YouTube Is Huge: 24 Hours of Video Now Uploaded Every Minute
YouTube has just announced that it has surpassed yet another milestone, and this one’s a doozy: 24 hours of video is now uploaded to the social video site every sixty seconds. Every second you are b... Read more
http://mashable.com/2010/03/17/youtube-24-hours/
Tags: video, youtube, stats, google, socialmedia, via:packrati.us, culture, data, emod_youtube, onlinevideo Saved by: admin at 18 Mar 2010

The 11 Commandments of Corporate Tweeting | The Big Money
The Pentagon's ostensible support of social networking is particularly remarkable when you consider that corporate America, and the rest of the corporate world, for that matter, finds Twitter and the ... Read more
http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/c-tweet/2010/03/05/11-commandments-corporate-tweeting
Tags: twitter, socialmedia, tips, corporate, marketing, community, communication, culture, work, policy Saved by: admin at 10 Mar 2010

Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore - tim rogers - Kotaku
I've lived in Japan for a long time. When I first came here, I liked living here. Now, I don't. I haven't changed. Japan hasn't really changed, either. Something else, however, has. Maybe all three o... Read more
http://kotaku.com/5484581/japan-its-not-funny-anymore?skyline=true&s=i
Tags: japan, culture, travel, rant, entertainment, anthropology, toread, business, fun, funny Saved by: admin at 08 Mar 2010

Conformity: Ten Timeless Influencers | PsyBlog
1. Group size. Maximum conformity is seen when groups reach between 3 and 5 people. 2. Dissent. As soon as there's someone who disagrees, or even just dithers or can't decide, conformity is reduced. ... Read more
http://www.spring.org.uk/2010/02/conformity-ten-timeless-influencers.php
Tags: psychology, conformity, culture, influence, society, persuasion, marketing, research, human, behaviour Saved by: admin at 26 Feb 2010

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition. - By Deborah Blum - Slate Magazine
They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving ... Read more
http://www.slate.com/id/2245188/pagenum/all/
Tags: prohibition, government, alcohol, history, poison, drugs, culture, politics, law, usa Saved by: admin at 22 Feb 2010

Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation - HBS Working Knowledge
Most companies have it all wrong. They don't have to motivate their employees. They have to stop demotivating them. The great majority of employees are quite enthusiastic when they start a new job. B... Read more
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5289.html
Tags: management, motivation, leadership, business, work, employees, culture, hr, career, howto Saved by: admin at 19 Feb 2010

funkatron.com : We’re the Stupid Ones: Facebook, Google, and Our Failure as Developers
The latest in a series of cogent and correct articles about UI design that the announcement of the iPad has spawned. Note: This website has a terrible color scheme, so I recommend reading it with Rea... Read more
http://funkatron.com/site/comments/were-the-stupid-ones-facebook-google-and-our-failure-as-developers/
Tags: design, technology, ui, usability, interface, ipad, culture, software, apple, blog Saved by: admin at 17 Feb 2010

Print Roger Ebert: The Essential Man
"But now everything he says must be written, either first on his laptop and funneled through speakers or, as he usually prefers, on some kind of paper. His new life is lived through Times New Roman an... Read more
http://www.esquire.com/print-this/roger-ebert-0310
Tags: ebert, movies, life, writing, art, culture, film, rogerebert, cinema, profile Saved by: admin at 17 Feb 2010