Apple really needs to do something about this.

Foxconn Chair Calls Employees Animals

Multiple suicides and a threat of mass suicide due to working conditions?

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End Piracy, Not Liberty

An excellent summary from Google about S.O.P.A. and P.I.P.A.

Please read it and sign the petition.  

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Nice summary of the big media companies outdated veiw of their customers

In a short post titled The Media Industry Would Rather Litigate Than Innovate, Scott McLeod pulled a great quote from an article you need to read about the industry's wrongheaded march to S.O.P.A.

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MSNBC's Breaking News Facebook page really needs a copy editor.

The following screen grabs are from MSNBC's Breaking News Facebook page. Below are two consecutive updates, roughly an hour apart.

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How much is enough?

I've been thinking about minimalism a lot lately. Not in the sense of getting rid of all of my stuff, but more in the sense of "how much is enough?

Leo Babauta is a true minimalist, in life philosophy and when it comes to physical possessions.

Dave is a radical minimalist, limiting himself to 100 personal possessions.

I read and enjoy both of them, but I'm thinking more in terms of simplification.

Do I really need over 300 cd's sitting around? They are all on my computer. I never pull them out and read the inserts.

What about the over 100 dvds in our house, taking up space in their large cases? Could we put them in binders, Or maybe even rip them to a large hard drive?

I rarely buy paper books anymore, but I still have many books on shelves. Why?

Just some things I've been thinking about.

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Suffer from information overload? Get some better filters.

Clay Shirky gave this great talk at Web 2.0 Expo NY in 2008. It is still very relevant today.

It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.

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Why I didnt follow you on twitter


published a post yesterday explaining how I decide to accept a friend requests on Facebook. Today let's talk about twitter.

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Facebook: To friend or not to friend

When I first joined Facebook, I accepted friend requests from just about anyone. I also liked many many fan pages, both of celebrities and companies. My news feed is now insanely hard to follow.

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