I got hold of two interesting posts today that seem to tell a larger story.
The first was from Freakonomics.  Stephen Dubner got Arthur Frommer, travel magnet, to sit down and answer some reader questions.  Two stood out:
Q: What is the biggest mistake people make when traveling?
A: They fail to prepare themselves by delving deeply into the history and […]

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Hip Hop - the music and the business - has been struggling over the past few years. According to Fox News, “though music sales are down overall, rap sales slid a whopping 21 percent from 2005 to 2006, and for the first time in 12 years no rap album was among the top 10 sellers of […]

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The year was 1984.  The day was December 25.  I was crying.
My hopes of a year filled with wonder and excitement had been dashed, and I blamed Santa.  He had not given me a piece of plastic critical for maintaining a competitive edge with friends at school:

Instead of getting the coolest of all cool toys, […]

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There has been much written about virtual worlds (VW’s) and Second Life in particular.  As there is with anything new, many of the articles deal with what is easy to understand or what is wrong, thereby not really providing a full and useful picture of the opportunity.  This is not to say that what these […]

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What does ”friend” stand for in a world connected by a series of tubes?  This has been an ongoing debate for the better half of a decade, but the growth of Facebook has reignited the burning question of what it takes for me to consider you a friend (or the other way around).
The most recent post I have seen […]

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